- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: Admission into program and course placement.
- Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
In this course, students will further refine their listening and speaking skills necessary for academic success and for appropriate participation in social communication in an English-speaking community. This course will provide students with daily opportunities to engage in small group and class discussion on academic topics. Instructions will focus primarily on the development of fluency in the student’s spoken communication, but will emphasize accuracy in production. Students will improve their note-taking skills by learning and practicing new strategies for listening to and comprehending academic lectures on various topics. In addition, students will prepare and deliver formal academic speeches/presentations throughout the course. They will collaborate with classmates to complete a variety of assignments. Finally, students will improve their test-taking skills in order to successfully improve their scores on standardized language tests (i.e. TOEFL, IELTS).