Course

Semester 3

Religions

Advanced Listening and Speaking trains students to use their critical listening and speaking skills to critically assess and deliver critical oral responses to various genres of (audiovisual) texts related to life-long learning and self-education. The subtopics are the power of stories, growth mindset, and entrepreneurship. Students’ activities involve listening and responding critically to various genres of speech, as meaningful input, to exercise their critical thinking skills, argumentation building, and higher-order thinking skills. The critical listening skills involve recognizing the difference between facts and opinions, identifying logical fallacies, uncovering assumptions given by the speakers, being open to new ideas, using both reason and common sense when analyzing messages, relating new ideas to old ideas, and taking useful notes. Given enough meaningful input and language skills, students exercise their speaking skills through low-stake and high-stake speaking activities. The low-stake speaking activities involve impromptu speeches, participation in a discussion, storytelling, and interviews. The high-stakes speaking activities involve delivering prepared speeches, presentations, and talk show podcasts. The criteria for evaluation are content, language, organization, and delivery.

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