| CODE | IFS0503 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Academic English Listening for Humanities | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Humanities | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to enable students to develop their listening skills, improve their vocabulary and consolidate their academic note-taking skills. 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: To assist students to learn how to distinguish between general and academic listening skills and to apply such skills in context. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Effectively listen to academic lectures and debates, presentations, and technical documentaries, summarise their main points, making use of specific details and reporting what they have learnt; - Listen to longer lectures, choose 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 awareness of 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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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study & Tutorial | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | James Formosa |
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