5 hrs. a la semana 8 unidades Requisito TOEFL 550-587 General

Equivalencia Hi 95 071

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to help students consolidate their English through the creative processes of speaking and writing. The oral component requires students to prepare, deliver, and evaluate public speeches in English. This part of the course familiarizes students with the basics of public speaking, including the listening process, and prepares them to become competent communicators and effective listeners. Public speaking skills will facilitate students' interactions with English-speaking groups in both academic and business situations.

The writing component of the course helps students to organize and structure their speeches and compositions logically and coherently, and strengthens their command of grammar, punctuation and mechanics. The comprehensive process of writing, as well as specific writing tasks, such as resumes, job applications, and research papers are studied. Being able to write well is closely tied to critical thinking, and should help

students meet the intellectual challenges of their future academic and professional lives.

V. GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVE

The overall goal of this course is to increase the students’ language skills in English, develop their thinking and learning ability, and promote the attitudes and ethical values that will enable them to be valuable agents of change in their social and professional circles, as well as in local, regional, national and international communities.

Plan Sintetico

COURSE CONTENT

Conceptual

-Thematic content of Writing Your Way:

*Characteristics of a Paragraph

*Characteristics of Short-Answer Questions in Tests

*Elements of an Essay

*Correct English Usage

-Thematic content of Speech Communication

*The Student as a Speaker

*The Student as an Active Listener

*Characteristics of an Informative Speech

*Elements of a Panel Discussion

*Characteristics of a Persuasive Speech

-Thematic content of Guide for Documented Research

*Modern Language Association (MLA) Format for Documented Research

-Documents in Course Room

*Evaluation Criteria

*Communication Processes

*Guidelines/Criteria for Oral and Written Communication

*Outline Forms for Oral and Written Communication

*ITESM Mission Statement

Procedural

-Reading information from different sources

-Creating documents according to established criteria

-Presenting a speech

-Responding to others’ ideas

-Completing evaluations

-Use of Learning Space

Attitudinal

-Towards oneself- Respect for own ideas, increase awareness of today´s world, be active

participant, be fair, improve

-Towards others- Appreciate differences of opinion, show interest in others´ ideas, be fair

-Towards course- Value concepts covered, give accurate information, strive for quality, comply with course guidelines