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Course Catalog 2011-2012

KIE-3336 Advanced English Speaking Skills, 3 cr

Additional information

Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

John Shepherd, Lauri Tolkki

Lessons

Study type	P1	P2	P3	P4	Summer	Implementations	Lecture times and places
Lectures Excercises	4 h/week  4 h/week					KIE-3336 2011-01	Tuesday 8 - 12, K2113 Thursday 8 - 12, K2113
Lectures Excercises	2 h/week  2 h/week	+2 h/week +2 h/week				KIE-3336 2011-02	Friday 8 - 12, K2114A
Lectures Excercises		4 h/week  4 h/week				KIE-3336 2011-03	Wednesday 8 - 12, K2115A Friday 8 - 12, K2116
Lectures Excercises			4 h/week  4 h/week			KIE-3336 2011-04	Monday 12 - 16, K2116 Wednesday 8 - 12, K2116
Lectures Excercises			2 h/week  2 h/week	+2 h/week +2 h/week		KIE-3336 2011-05	Friday 8 - 12, K2114A
Lectures Excercises			4 h/week  4 h/week			KIE-3336 2011-06	Tuesday 12 - 16, K2116 Thursday 12 - 16, K2116
Lectures Excercises				3 h/week  3 h/week		KIE-3336 2011-07
Lectures Excercises				4 h/week  4 h/week		KIE-3336 2011-08

Requirements

Regular attendance; active participation in exercises; giving a high quality professional presentation.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

Teaching methods will largely be task-based exercises, group, pair as well as whole class work, involving e.g. simulations and role plays. Students are expected to be as active as possible and the level of active participation will be one of the assessment criteria

Learning outcomes

The course aims to activate the students´ oral communication skills in a professional context. Students will develop the language and skills needed for communicating in a variety of professional situations: small-talk and socializing skills, functioning in meetings, giving a professional presentation, use of the telephone and exchange of information and a general target is to make the students communicate more spontaneously in unrehearsed pair and group-work role-plays and simulations.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Language and skills involved in professional meetings (informal)	Participation in meeting simulations: development of meeting-specific vocabulary.	Formal meetings (e.g. AGM)
2.	Small-talk and polite language	Understanding of communication differences and small-talk gambits	Knowledge of associated cultural norms.
3.	Development of general communication skills
4.	Information exchange.	Telephoning: skills and language.Role-play and simulation.
5.	Presentation skills and language for professional purposes	Presentation practice in teacher- generated exercises.	Advanced presentation skills:performance of a professional presentation

Evaluation criteria for the course

Continuous assessment based on performance, attendance and level of activity in the class exercises, performance of the professional presentation and general level and also development of oral skills during the course. There is no written test for this course.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)

Correspondence of content

Course	Corresponds course	Description
KIE-3336 Advanced English Speaking Skills, 3 cr	97135 Oral Skills for Engineers, 2 cu

More precise information per implementation

Implementation	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
KIE-3336 2011-01	Group 1 Intensive
KIE-3336 2011-02	Ryhmä 2
KIE-3336 2011-03	Ryhmä 3 Intensive
KIE-3336 2011-04	Group 4 INTENSIVE
KIE-3336 2011-05	Group 5
KIE-3336 2011-06	Group 6, Intensive
KIE-3336 2011-07	Group 7, Intensive
KIE-3336 2011-08	Group 8

Last modified

15.03.2012