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EL10695: Discussion skills

Academic Year:	2017/8
Owning Department/School:	Academic Skills Centre
Credits:	3 [equivalent to 6 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours:	60
Level:	Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:	Semester 1
Assessment Summary:	CW 100%
Assessment Detail:	Coursework (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:	Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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 * Turntaking * 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:	EL10695 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 UXXX-AFN96 : Catalogue of Academic Skills Centre Units UXXX-AFN99 : Generally available catalogue

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EL10695: Discussion skills

EL10695 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.