UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA

COURSE OUTLINE                                                                                        Spring 2020

Course Title: LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION AND PRESENTATION SKILLS

Course Code: UR5CE-5102

Credit Hours:3

Instructor: Mariam Ishfaq

Email: [email protected]

DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

Course Objectives

 The course objectives are to

• Enhance students’ language skill management capacity
• Comprehend text(s) in context
• Respond to language in context
• Write structured response(s)

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students learning outcomes (SLOs)

• At the end of this course a student should be able to:
• Develop intellectual flexibility and creativity, so that they may engage in lifelong learning.
• Properly Read, pronounce, comprehend and present critical ideas values and issues that appears in literary text.
• Present their ideas and can discuss by following the ethics.

COURSE CONTENTS

1. Listening skills
   • Recognizing different phonemes
   • Recognizing syllables
   • Listening to isolated sentences
   • Listening to small speeches
   • Managing listening (attending, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding)
   • Barriers to listening and their remedies
   • Expressing opinions (debating current events)
   • Oral synthesis of thoughts and ideas
2. Pronunciation skills

• Pronouncing English phonemes
• Recognizing phonemic symbols
• Pronouncing English words correctly
• Understanding and practicing stress patterns
• Practicing intonation patterns in simple sentences
• Conflict resolution thought panel discussion

1. Comprehension skills

• Reading strategies
• Critical reading (SQ3R)
• Summarizing
• Sequencing
• Inferencing
• Comparing and contrast
• Drawing conclusion
• Self-questioning
• Relating background knowledge
• Distinguishing between facts and opinion
• Finding the main idea, important facts, and supporting details
• Comprehending text organization patterns
• Investigating implied ideas in a text
• Purpose and tone of the text

1. Presentation skills

• Features of good presentation
• Different types of presentations
• Different patterns of introducing a presentation
• Organizing argument in a presentation
• Tactics of maintaining interest of the audience
• Concluding a presentation
• Giving suggestions and recommendations while ending of a presentation
• Dealing with the questions of the audience
• Listening to recorded presentations

READINGS

• Listening: processes, functions, and competency (2nd ed) by D.fitch-hauser Worthington
• The complete presentation handbook by s. Siddons
• Advance reading power: extensive reading, vocabulary building, comprehending skills, reading faster, by Mikulecky
• English pronunciation in use (2nd ed) Cambridge by M. hancock

Research project/ Assignments:   

Assignments 

Presentation

Test

Class Quiz

Assessment criteria

1:  Sessionals: 20 Marks

Assignments: 5

Presentation: 5

Class Prticipation:5

Attendance: 5

2: Mid Term : 30 Marks

3: Final Term: 50

Time Table:

Wednesday: 9:00 am-10:00am

Thursday:  9:00am-10:00am

Friday:       9:00am-10:00am