Students will learn how to interact with peers and instructor around readings, classroom discussions, and peer feedback. Students regularly talk with peers in class about their readings and the speaking assignments. Peer feedback, as well as instructor feedback, is employed. Understand themselves better as learners. Students will learn to use reading and speaking tasks as a means to learning about themselves as learners.
Students reflect on their speaking processes through feedback sheets and other mechanisms.
Evaluate their own strengths, limitations, and interests. Students will learn to see their strengths and weaknesses as speakers and listeners. Students regularly receive oral and written feedback on speaking and critical listening strengths and weaknesses from the instructor. Set attainable academic and career goals. Students learn how to meet time goals.