Oral Expression is a designed course for third-year LMD students of English. Its objective is to familiarize students with the skills of oral/aural English Language composition. The emphasis is on proficiency and fluency in oral productions.
The purpose of this course is to basically initiate and eventually allow the students to acquire a general English proficiency, to develop the students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in personal and cultural, social, and educational contexts.
Students are required to have effective presentation of arguments in a variety of oral contexts. Both British and American accents are present in this course.
Encouragement (in a bonus form) will be given to class participation in the forms of comments, questions, and discussion. The pedagogical aim of this course is to teach students the needed skills to foster their English learning through team-learning interaction.
GENERAL COURSE CONTENT/TRACKS: 1. Listening text process and note taking (collaboratively and individually)
2. Presenting poetry, story, drama role play and improvisation with an audience focus
3. Developing active listening and speaking skills strategies
4. Reading aloud with clarity
5. Strategies on how to present a lesson with an audience involvement through assessment
6. Persuasive discourse in public situations (how to address convincingly an audience by an appropriate vocabulary selection depending on the context (formal and informal)
The six tracks are not exhaustive and include sub-tracks that can be expanded into weekly student assignments