Course Tittle:   Language Comprehension and Presentation Skills      

Course Code:  URCE-5102

Credit Hours: 03

Objective:

To enable participants to communicate clearly and with impact, by improving their verbal and non-verbal communication style, as well as enhancing interpersonal skills. Communicating effectively will soon seem effortless!

By the end of this one-day course, the participants will have:

• Recognised different styles of communication and how to improve understanding and build rapport with others.
• Reflected on different methods of communication and decided when each is most suitable.
• Appreciated the role of body language and voice tone in effective communication.
• Communicated their message in an effective and engaging way for the recipient

COURSE CONTENTS:

• Listening Skills
• Listening to isolated sentences and speech extracts
• Managing listening and overcoming listening barriers
• Expressing opinions and oral synthesis of thoughts and ideas
• Pronunciation Skills
• Recognizing phonemes, phonemic symbols and syllabes, pronouncing words correctly
• Understanding and practicing stress patterns and intonation patterns in simple sentence.
• Comprehension skills
• Reading strategies, summarizing,sequencing, interferencing, comparing and contrasting.
• Drawing conclusion, Self questioni g, problem solving related to background knowledge
• distinguishing between facts and ideas,finding main ideas and  supporting details.
• Text organizational patterns investigating implied ideas,purpose and tone of the text.
• Critical reading, SQ3R model.
• Presentation skills,features and different types of presentation
• patterns of introducing presentation
• tactics of maintaining interest of audience
• concluding a presentation, reccomendations.

Recommended Texts:

Mikulecy,B.S and Jefferies. Advanced reading power: extensive reading power, vocabulary building, comprehension skills

helgesen Brown, Active listening :building skills for understanding. Cambridge University

Hargie,O.(Ed). (2019) The Handbook of Communication Skills(4th edition).Oxon: Routledge

Wide, P.(2016) Mastering Technical Communication Skills: Astudent Handbook. Singapore: Pan Standford Publishing

Suggested Readings

De Vito J . A,Shimoni. R and Clark(2015) Messages: building interpersonal communication skills( 5th edition) North York

Garcia H.F (2012) The power of communication: skills to build trust , inspire loyality and lead efficiently

Huang L.S Academic Communication Skills: Conversation strategies for international graduate students

Class Timetable

Wednesday:  11:00am - 12:30pm

Thursday      :  12:30pm - 2:00pm

Course Manual will consist of approximately 32 lessons (see “Course Outline” above to get an idea about the contents of these lessons). It will be provided to participants in PDF and MS Word formats. They can take printout and .read the material.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Sessional: 20

Mid Exam: 25

Presentation: 05

Final: 25

Viva: 25