ES5001B

ES5001B - Intermediate Level Speaking and Listening

This intermediate level module is open as an elective to any international graduate student registered at NUS, regardless of whether they are required to take the Diagnostic English Test or not.  

For some students from the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences and the School of Medicine it is a required module.

It is a 48-hour module taught over 12 weeks with 2 two-hour tutorials per week.

The module is designed to help graduate students from non-English medium universities improve their oral and aural skills in English. Students should increase their competence in listening and speaking so they can participate easily in general conversation and in academic discussions and comprehend most educated English speech. They should also learn the techniques of preparing and skills for delivering an academic presentation.

Objectives

By the end of the module the students should be able to:

  • listen to academic discourse with greater ease;
  • listen to general conversation;
  • express their ideas and thoughts in a more natural and confident way;
  • give a well organised, competently delivered "professional" presentation; and
  • pronounce problematic English sounds with greater clarity.

Assessment

ES5001B is a 100% Continuous Assessment module.

Prerequisites

  • Any student required to take the Diagnostic English Test must do so first and, if placed in ES5000, Basic Level Writing, must pass that module before taking ES5001B.
  • ES5001B, when taken as an elective, can be taken before or after ES5001A.

Preclusions

None

Modular Credits

Nil

Workload

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