Instruction focuses on speaking skills within an academic context. Students receive passing grades if they have attended classes regularly, successfully completed specified assignments and performed satisfactorily on a final assessment task. Permission of instructor. This course is designed for non-native graduate and undergraduate students who have sufficient language proficiency to be admitted to the University but who need to improve their pronunciation in order to communicate successfully in their academic situations. Class meetings are once a week for ninety minutes.
Students receive instruction in the English sound system.
Practice is provided in the form of small group tutorials as well as language laboratory exercises. Emphasis is placed on accuracy, fluency, communicative competence with self-monitoring an important goal. Students will be evaluated on the basis on regular attendance, successful completion of assignments, tests, and video work. Linguistics 312 or equivalent. Linguistics is not needed as a prerequisite for this course in Winter Term, 1986.