This course is designed to improve students oral communication skills by focusing on

1. Listening skills: Understanding main idea and important details, understanding of speakers purpose and attitude, understanding spoken data in order to make inferences, form generalization, and draw conclusion.

2. Speaking skills: expressing ideas and opinions clearly, selecting, presenting, and presenting information spontaneously, summarizing main ideas from various sources.

3. Pronunciation: English sound articulation, stress rhythm, grouping (pausing, linking, focus) and intonation.

4. Vocabulary explanation: Vocabulary-building strategies and idiomatic English