Conversation Skills and Techniques 2

This course enables intermediate students to learn conversational speaking and facilitation skills that support effective academic interactions, whether as part of classroom discussions or when completing academic tasks with peers. Students practice specific phrases and questions to ask for and give elaboration and clarification; support ideas with examples; maintain focus in conversations and build on ideas; and paraphrase and synthesize new ideas as they are developed. After analyzing radio interviews and short articles, students offer and support viewpoints while applying various conversation skills. Through numerous activities that require students to formulate and reformulate their ideas, students learn to move from simple sharing of information to the development and evaluation of ideas and arguments.