This is a one-semester academic speaking course for students with an upper-intermediate English language level. Students have three class hours every week. The course also addresses the information literacy and higher-order thinking skills necessary for conducting extensive secondary research, constructing ideas, providing evidential support, and structuring ideas coherently in spoken academic settings. Students develop both verbal and non-verbal communication in small and large group academic settings. Students will critically evaluate their own and others’ performances, and will learn how to utilize a variety of technologyenhanced communication tools. Other skills addressed in this course include critical thinking and argumentation.

CILO-1: Conduct online and library database research for secondary information sources. CILO-2: Summarize, analyse, and evaluate secondary information source material. CILO-3: Synthesize information, analyse, justify, and evaluate arguments. CILO-4: Conduct a detailed, clear, systematically developed academic presentation, with highlighting of significant points and arguments, and relevant supporting detail using APA citation and referencing. CILO-5: Understand and apply various fundamental verbal and non-verbal skills in academic speaking contexts. CILO-6: Employ various pragmatic strategies to overcome communication breakdowns. CILO-7: Critically reflect on approaches to secondary research, argumentation and academic discussions and presentations.