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Communication Strategies 2

Course Overview

Course description

This course is designed to develop the skills students need in everyday conversations, and more serious discussions. Students will develop their communication skills building on what they have learned in Communication Strategies 1. Emphasis will be placed on developing speaking and listening fluency, important communication structures, and communication strategies, including AI use, through individual learning, pair work, and group work. Time will also be spent on expression of opinions and developing a basic 2000 word-level vocabulary.

Course goals

  1. ・ Provide meaningful information in sentences fluently
    ・ Speak and read aloud with easy-to-understand pronunciation, stress, and rhythm
  1. ・ Identify conversation structures and use them effectively
    ・ Use grammar needed for the conversation structures
  1. ・ Apply communication strategies effectively
    ・ Think scientific and social issues critically and communicate
    ・ Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) effectively and ethically
  1. ・ Identify collocations of the most frequent 2000 words

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