Teaching Oral Communication: A Discourse Based Approach - EDST5131

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Education

Course Outline: School of Education

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 17

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Enrolment in one of the following programs, 1970, 2354, 2359, 7401, 7960, 8910, 8926 or 8960 or enrolled in a Education or Educational Leadership plan in 8224

CSS Contribution Charge: 1* (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This course will introduce students to current theoretical and practical concepts in teaching speaking, with some consideration of how speaking interacts with listening. Participants will be encouraged to undertake tasks and small-scale projects that they can apply to their own classrooms in order to put the key ideas from the course into practice. Topics include theoretical perspectives on the teaching of speaking and listening; learner factors in oral/aural language contexts; cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in speaking and listening; speech, discourse and pronunciation; genres of speaking and implications for listening; planning and developing programs; assessing speaking and listening.