Speaking Production (Conversational)
Develop speaking skills needed for successful daily communication.
Learning Outcomes
- Participate comfortably, actively, and spontaneously in social interactions by expressing opinions, choices, and intention
- Apply conversational strategies (taking / holding / yielding the floor)
- Advocate for self. Tactfully apply strategies and language for taking leadership in interactions
- Apply grammatical structures that add nuance and strengthen the intent of your message
- Apply language structures accurately when speaking
- Approach mastery of sounds
- Approach mastery of features including vowel reduction, linking, rhythm, stress, and intonation
- Analyze personal language for sound discrimination and rhythmic features
- Acquire, retain, and apply advanced, useful vocabulary
- Apply field-specific and topic-related lexical items, including their collocations