EA-128 FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH
CREDIT HOURS
Theory = 3
Practical = 0
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)
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COURSE CONTENT
- Listening skills and subskills: Effective listening techniques: listening for gist, details, and specific information in a range of situations (AV lectures, interviews, documentaries etc.)
- Speaking skills: Speaking with fluency and accuracy in a variety of situations including conversations, group discussion, academic and social interaction, public speaking, presentation skills, and interviews Pronunciation improvement exercises (through websites, apps, and in class worksheets)
- Reading and subskills: Reading strategies: Skimming, scanning, and detailed reading, identifying main ideas, supporting details, and inferences (multiple genres including newspapers, books, stories, documentaries etc). Reading Practice: Reading comprehension tasks. Reading output tasks (notes, summary, discussion, counter argument etc.)
- Study skills: Effective note-taking strategies for lectures, meetings, and reading texts. Taking in varied forms paragraph, lists, infographics etc.) Interpreting instructions oral and written. Effective examination taking technique (comprehending instructions, planning, and writing answers ensuring relevance and precise
- Writing skills: Writing process, Pre-writing strategies (Mindmapping, cubing, outlining, clustering etc.) Writing to describe, argue, compare and contrast, persuade through writing prompts. Writing academic and professional genres: emails, letters, short report, resume, cover letter, building profiles on various job portal. Writing accuracy: Identifying and overcoming grammatical problems.
- Vocabulary and grammar development: Vocabulary Development strategies. Exposure and practice to develop everyday and academic vocabulary for formal contexts.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Reference Book(s)
- Pauline Cullen, Cambridge Vocabulary for IELTS, 2008, Cambridge University Press
- Michael Mcarthy & Felicity O’Dell, English Vocabulary in Use (upper intermediate), 2008, Cambridge University Press
- Academic Listening Encounters: Human Behaviour, 2004, Cambridge University Press
- Kenneth J Pakenham, Making Connections: A Strategic Approach to Academic Reading, (2nd Ed), 2004, Cambridge University Press
- Glendining& Holmstrom, Study Reading, (2nd Ed.), 2007, Cambridge University Press
- Edmond H Weiss, The Elements of International Style: A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents, and Internet Pages for a Global Audience, 2005, Prentice Hall.
- Osborn, M. & Osborn, S. (2017). Exploring public speaking (4th ed.). Cengage Learning.
- Rae, J., Skelton, J., Perez, E., & Beseta, S. (2020). Advanced Community College ESL Composition: An Integrated Skills Approach.
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