Overview

This topic provides a extension of the intermediate level of academic English while developing students’ underlying English skills. Students are exposed to a variety of general and academic texts and to spoken English in both a lecture and conversational context. Students continue to engage in discussions on a range of … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

In the listening component, students work on listening comprehension with different kinds of one-way listening: listening to longer monologues in the form of excerpts of academic lectures and listening to longer two-person dialogues, including interviews and conversations. Students continue to develop their notetaking skills while listening to lectures or other listening texts.

In the communication component, students take part in discussions on topics introduced in class and through listening material and give group presentations on topics chosen by the teacher or within their specialised fields or areas of interest. Discussion skills focus not only on explaining ideas clearly and coherently but also on skills for effective interaction, such as turn-taking, asking and responding to follow-up questions, and active listening. Group presentation skills are largely informative but may include other discursive type presentations. Effective use of and reference to visuals are a focus of learning and referring to and acknowledging sources are covered within presentation skills but not explicitly assessed in English for Academic Purposes 2. Students are encouraged to actively listen to and participate in follow-up discussions after other groups’ presentations.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Follow most speech in short lectures and other listening material when listening more than once without losing track of the flow
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Identify the main ideas in a listening text
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Distinguish between the main and supporting ideas in listening material
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Identify key or specific information in listening texts such as quantities, cause or effect, or for and against, reason or result arguments
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Arrange basic information in sequential/chronological or process order
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Understand spoken definitions
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Understand simple and some complex signposting language
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Demonstrate an understanding of vocabulary for academic purposes appropriate for this level (matched to the CEFR B2 level vocabulary)
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Participate appropriately in discussions by expressing and expanding on ideas and using appropriate turn taking techniques
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Participate appropriately as a pair or in a group to give a clear, prepared informative presentation
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Articulate clear reasons and explanations for opinions
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Ask for explanation or clarification when necessary
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Develop most main ideas and supporting details
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Handle simple questions from an audience, rephrasing and explaining information when necessary
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Deliver information in a logical sequence with some development of ideas
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Give a clear introduction, body, and conclusion
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Connect sections of the talk with appropriate discourse markers
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Accurately use a range of grammar up to and including CEFR B2 level to express ideas appropriate to the topic and task
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Rephrase ideas to emphasise or explain a point or demonstrate range of language
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Demonstrate appropriate choice of vocabulary at CEFR B2 level to express ideas suitable to the topic and task
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Produce stretches of understandable speech at an appropriate pace, with occasional hesitation or pausing for planning or repair, despite some errors in word sounds, stress, rhythm and/or intonation

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