Spring 2027

Oral Communication Skills

Practice in formal and informal oral communication skills, including listening comprehension, pronunciation, and presentation skills for academic settings.

offering recorded3 credits
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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify main ideas in a lecture and the details that support those ideas.

  • Explain their opinions about a variety of specific topics.

  • Develop speaking skills and use websites that can help them to improve their pronunciation.

  • Distinguish between the differences in sounds and intonation.

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Prerequisites

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ESL 343

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Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 150

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Student experience

the class

Practice in formal and informal communication skills, including listening comprehension, pronunciation, and conversational and presentation skills useful in an academic setting. Not open to auditors

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Topics

  • Listening comprehension, pronunciation, conversation, and presentations

Skills

  • Listening comprehension and identifying main ideas in lectures
  • Speaking skills and pronunciation improvement using websites
  • Explaining opinions on specific topics

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ESL 343 · Spring 2027

Oral Communication Skills

Recorded 2026-10-14
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    "offering_id": "1274:351:006736",
    "course_id": "ESL 343",
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    "term_id": "1274",
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    "source_subject_id": "351",
    "title": "Oral Communication Skills",
    "credits_min": 3,
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    "typically_offered": "Fall, Spring, Summer"
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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