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The
Course Objectives
1)
Speaking
Speaking is the oral communication of thoughts and
feelings. Speech activities in the English language
programme encourage students’ social competence as well
as their understanding and facility with language.
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Speak
to clarify and extend thinking.
Speak to express understanding.
Speak to share thoughts, opinions, and
feelings.
Speak to
build relationships and a sense of community.
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2) Listening
Listening is an active process dependent upon attending
to and understanding what is heard. Effective listening
leads to understanding.
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Students will: |
Recognize
listening as an active process which
requires listeners to:
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anticipate a message and set a purpose
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attend
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seek and check understanding by making
connections, and by making and
confirming predictions and inferences
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interpret and summarize
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Be
sensitive to ideas and purpose when
listening.
Recognize speaker’s attitude, tone, and
bias.
Recognize nonverbal indicators of speaker’s
intent.
Recognize organization of an argument.
Identify persuasive techniques (e.g.,
propaganda) used by a speaker.
Provide appropriate feedback (e.g.,
supportive stance, eye contact, gesture,
comment).
Respond personally, critically, creatively,
and empathetically.
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3) Writing
Writing is communicating thoughts
and feelings through the print medium. Writing is a
powerful instrument of communication that allows the
writer to grow personally and effect a change in the
world.
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Students will:
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Recognize
writing as a process of constructing meaning
for self and others.
Recognize and use what is
known as the writing process.
Use appropriate pre-writing
and planning strategies.
Develop ideas previously
explored into draft forms.
Revise and polish
compositions.
Share/present compositions.
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Write introductions
which engage interest and focus readers’
attention.
Achieve unity of thought and purpose.
Choose a method of development and
organization suitable for a particular
purpose and audience.
Write effective conclusions appropriate to
the overall intent.
Analyze and evaluate own and others’ writing
for ideas, organization, sentence clarity,
word choice, and mechanics (i.e.,
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling).
Prepare final copy using appropriate
conventions of publication (e.g., title
page, parenthetical references, works cited
or bibliography).
Evaluate compositions for unity, coherence,
and emphasis (e.g., proportion).
Confer with peers and teachers.
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4) Reading
Reading is making personal connections with text to
construct meaning. Reading and responding to literature
are integral parts of language learning. Through
reading, students extend their language repertoires and
increase their understanding of themselves and others.
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Recognize reading as an active process which
requires readers to:
make connections
find meaning
make and confirm predictions
make and confirm inferences
reflect and evaluate.
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Respond personally, critically, and creatively.
Recognize author’s purpose, form, and
techniques.
State and evaluate author’s theme, tone, and
viewpoint.
Recognize the major literary forms, elements,
and techniques.
Relate the structure of the work to the author’s
purpose and theme.
Recognize the tone and organization of the
formal and informal essay.
Recognize and explain allusions, symbols,
figurative language, and stylistic devices in a
literary text.
Recognize prominent symbols in a literary work.
Skim, scan, and read closely for required
information.
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Relate literary experience
to personal experience. Read an increasingly
wide range of material for personal enjoyment
and extension of experiences.
Explore human experiences and values.
Test ideas and values against ideas in text.
Read to stimulate the imagination.
Make and defend an informed critical response.
Recognize major literary forms and techniques.
Assess an author’s ideas and techniques.
Assess a selection’s merit as a literary work.
Compare, contrast, and evaluate texts.
Write a paraphrase and précis of a prose and
poetry passage.
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