Paper Profile

ESLA201-10B (HAM)
Academic Aural Strategies

20 Points

Aim/Objectives

This paper for EAL students focuses on the critical analysis and processing of academic lectures and other oral presentation genres in terms of the schematic structures, linguistic and paralinguistic resources that they draw upon. The focus of the paper will be on students gaining further competence in aural skills in conjunction with note-taking skills and the integration of listening with the other three skills of reading, writing and speaking, Moodle will be used as part of this course.

The course emphasises:

•  The recognition of aural indicators
•  The recognition of lecturer attitude and interpertation of lecturer's intentions
•  The ability to recognise main points in a lecture and the ability to extract relevant information and make useful notes
•  The ability to synthesise information by including listening sources
•  A development of confidence, competence and fluency in English with a particular focus on academic study.

Requisite(s)

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Assessment

Internal assessment/examination ratio: 1 : 0

This course will be 100% internally assessed. Assessment will be based on guided listening tasks, Online discussions related to personal experience within lectures, Video viewing tasks, Note taking tasks, and an assignment related to lecture topics.

As a required part of the assessed course work, students must cooperate and collaborate with other members of the class via the online discussion tasks. Co-operation of this type is compulsory for this course and students are expected to contribute work and engage in discussion and feedback with the rest of their class within and outside lecture time. This type of participation and completion of the discussion assignments is required for successful completion of the course.

Classtimes

Timetable

Attendance is compulsory. Students are expected to attend 80% of the lectures, i.e. 20 out of the 24 lectures. Regardless of the fulfillment of the assignment requirement, if any student fails to attend the number of lectures required, they will be awarded a fail for the course, unless medical certificates are provided. The workload for the course will be easier to manage if you attend class, review your lecture material and allow yourself plenty of lead-in time for the assessments. You should also make sure that you take advantage of tutorial help during the semester.

Resources

Required

ESLA201 Academic Aural Strategies, Course Materials - can be purchased from Campus Copy at the beginning of semester.

Contact

Lecturer:	Lucy Campbell
Phone: Room: Fax: Email:	+64 7 838 4466, extn. 8051 JK3.01 +64 7 838 4788 lucy@waikato.ac.nz

Regulations and Policies

Your attention is drawn to the following regulations and policies which are published in The University of Waikato Calendar:

• Regulations Governing Examinations and Assessment
• Discipline Regulations
• Computer System Regulations
• Policy on the Use of Māori for Assessment
• Policy on the Ethical Conduct of Coursework Assignments
• Regulations on Plagiarism