Course Overview

This course aims to help students improve their speaking skills for communicating in both academic and general contexts. Each lesson is based around a written text or video related a current general science topic (e.g. vaccines, space exploration, robotics, artificial intelligence). Students will learn related vocabulary, practice a selected language function or form and discuss the topic in groups. While the course integrates all four skills areas (speaking, listening, reading and writing), there is a stronger focus on speaking. Each week students will record and submit a spoken homework assignment related to the topic studied in class.

Learning Achievement

For details, see:
http://www.corpuslinguist.com/for-students.html

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Millar Neil

Other information

Exchange students on SIE programs only * Class size is limited to 24 students. This class is the same contents as 0AL0008.
Lecture is conducted in English.
face-to-face
* To enroll, please sign up on TWINS and come to the first class. During the first two weeks, priority will be given to students from Systems and Information Engineering. During this time, students from other graduate schools can register and attend. However, this does not guarantee enrollment. After week 2, if there is space, students from other graduate schools can enroll.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university