Course Title: Intermediate listening and speaking skills for casual conversation

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2012

Course Code: GEDU5481

Course Title: Intermediate listening and speaking skills for casual conversation

School: 360T Education

Campus: Brunswick Campus

Program: C3211 - Certificate III in Spoken and Written English

Course Contact : Jennifer Chamberlain

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9476

Course Contact Email:jennifer.chamberlain@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This module/course covers the skills required to understand and participate in casual conversations in order to function in community, work and further studies contexts.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CSWEIIIB Intermediate listening and speaking skills for casual conversation

Element:

Demonstrate understanding of a casual conversation with topic changes

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Identify the context

1.2 Identify first topic in the converstion

1.3 Identify at least 1 other topic in the conversation

1.4 Identify specific information
 

Element:

Participate in a casual conversation with topic changes

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Participate effectivley in a conversation which has at least 2 topic changes

2.2 Open conversation appropriately useing, eg. expression for greeting questions

2.3 sustain dialogue by using appropriate interaction strategies as required, eg take turn, give feed back, seek clarification, ask follow up questions

2.4 Manage topic changes

2.5 Take extended turn, eg recount events, tell an anecdote, express personal point of view

2.6 Respond appropriately to a variety of adjacency pairs, eg. question/answer, statement/ agreement, statement /disagreement

2.7 Close conversation using appropriate pre-claosing and closing expressions

2.8 Use grammatical structures appropriate to setting and register

2.9 Use some common idiomatic expression accurately

2.10 Pronounce key vocabulary and utterances with sufficient clarity and stress to be intelligible to the interlocutor, or respond to requests for clarification

2.11 Use pausing, stress and intonation to communicate meaning
 


Learning Outcomes


The outcomes described in this unit relate to:
Performance criteria of 2 learning outcomes
The ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors 1+-2
 


Details of Learning Activities

Evidence may be gathered through eg

Verbal and or/written questioning
audio and/or video recordings to assess performance, if class teacher is interlocutor
teacher observation of student with fluent interlocutor
checklists
 


Teaching Schedule

This is a 20 week program:
Program dates: 16th July- 14th December, 2012
Term break: Fri 21st September - 5th October, 2012
Public Holiday: 6th November, 2012 (Melbourne Cup Day)
Your program is made up of:
• Orientation
• Learning activities
• Guest speakers
• Excursions

All students will be inducted. The induction includes

AMEP handbook outlining student rights and responsibilities, grievance procedure and services information about student services, rights and responsibilities is contained in student diary.
Orientation to RMIT Libraries (library tour & on line catalogue introduction) and campus facilities
 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

TEXTS AND EQUIPMENT

There are no set texts in this course learning materials are provided by the teachers
but it is recommended that you bring
• Display folder with plastic sleeves
• Notebook or loose leaf paper
Writing materials
 


Overview of Assessment

This course is part of a full-time integrated program. Learner performance is assessed against specific criteria that describe a standard of performance. The criteria allows the learner to participate actively in the assessment process. The learner is given as many opportunities as practicable to achieve each outcome.
Feedback:
Learner is clearly informed that assessment is taking place and feedback on performance is given for each assessment.
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.

An assessment charter (http://mams.rmit.edu.au/kh6a3ly2wi2h1.pdf) summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.
Your courses assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures which are described and referenced in a single document: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ln1kd66y87rc
 


Assessment Tasks

Assessment may be gathered through

  • Verbal and or/written questioning
  • audio and/or video recordings to assess performance, if class teacher is interlocutor
  • teacher observation of student with fluent interlocutor
  • checklists


Assessment Matrix

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