| CODE | IFS0125 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Technical and Academic English Listening | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Engineering and ICT | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to enable students to develop their listening skills and consolidate their knowledge of the necessary grammatical structures required for their study. Students will listen to discipline specific texts of differing types and of increasing difficulty throughout the course and will be trained in reacting appropriately to them. Students will also develop their awareness of the conventions of academic presentations by producing their own. Study-Unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is for students to acquire the following: General Listening Skills: - Listen for specific information; - React appropriately to what they hear; - Listen for main ideas; - Listen and answer comprehension questions; - Make predictions about content from context; - Remember information from the first time that they listen; - Listen and complete a table or chart; - Listen and complete a table or chart; - Listen and complete a text; - Comment on the content of a recording. Academic Listening Skills: - Understand lecture organization; - Choose an appropriate form of notes; - Predict lecture content; - Understand signpost language in lectures; - Use symbols and abbreviations in note taking; - Understand speaker emphasis; - Write up notes in full; - Recognise digression; - Recognize opinion and stance; - Identify audience and purpose from a recording. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Listen to high level listening texts summarize their main points, make use of specific details and report what they have learnt; - Listen to longer lectures, chose appropriate strategies for note taking, make coherent notes and use them successfully as reference material; - Use a wide range of lexical structures accurately and appropriately to enhance their writing and ensure that note taking is coherent; - Demonstrate awareness of academic structure and style in an oral presentation. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Listen effectively when taking part in lectures, seminars and talks; - Demonstrate effective listening skills to deduce meaning, confirm expectations, extract specific information, and infer opinion and attitude; - Independently produce their own ordered and coherent notes for future reference; - Show an awareness listening text organization depending on text type; - Evaluate and apply information received in a lecture; - Deliver a clear presentation in an academic style. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This study-unit is offered only to the Certificate in Foundation Studies students. Please note that a pass in the Examination component is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Ruth Bellizzi James Bugeja |
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