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EL00721: Discussion skills

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Academic Skills Centre
Credits: 0      [equivalent to 0 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: See Director of Studies for further information
Level: Non-credit (FHEQ level n/a)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: Not applicable
Assessment Detail:
  • Not Applicable
Supplementary Assessment:
Not applicable
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
The aim of this unit is to help students integrate into the academic and social environment and to raise the level of their degree work.

Learning Outcomes:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Take part in a seminar discussion
* Lead a discussion
* Identify weaknesses in their pronunciation and understand how to rectify them
* Adopt an appropriate register for different informal academic and social situations
* Interact confidently in informal academic and social situations

Skills:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Deal with different academic and social situations.

Content:
Seminar skills
* Turn-taking
* Active listening
* Expressing agreement and disagreement
* Expressing reservation
* Making a point
* Clarifying
* Problem solving
* Asking questions
Leading a discussion
* Presenting information
* Presenting an argument
* Summarising and paraphrasing
* Controlling a discussion
* Using a text
Pronunciation
* Intonation
* Chunking
* Stress
* Linking
Informal situations
* Social venues
* Initiating and making conversation
* Cultural variations
* Integrating with a group.
Programme availability:

EL00721 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Academic Skills Centre

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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