In the Seminar "Speaking & Communication", you will develop skills needed throughout your English studies as well as in professional and private contexts after you graduate. The course offers you the chance to become a yet more proficient user of spoken English, and to express yourself appropriately, correctly, easily and confidently, particularly in discussions, talks and meetings. In the first part of the seminar in particular, we will work at contrastive aspects of pronunciation and then go on to work on honing the rhetorical and argumentational skills needed to describe complex interrelationships and express diverse, perhaps even controversial, perspectives in debate.
The seminar will take place in hybrid format - in the classroom and simultaneously via Zoom. The material for the sessions will be uploaded in the Moodle course.
BM1 seminars are typically taken in the first or second semester.
To be given in class.
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Module | Course | Requirements | |
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23-ANG-Basis1 Basismodul 1: Language | Basis1.1 Speaking and Communication | Study requirement
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The binding module descriptions contain further information, including specifications on the "types of assignments" students need to complete. In cases where a module description mentions more than one kind of assignment, the respective member of the teaching staff will decide which task(s) they assign the students.
To complete the "Studienleistung" in this seminar, you need to participate actively in at least 70% of the speaking activities, including short individual presentations.
There is one Module Examination, the Language Proficiency Test, for all the Language Practice courses. (Basismodul 1). You do not have to take the test in the same semester as the Speaking & Communication seminar, and you should not take it until you have taken part in all the Basis1 seminars.
A corresponding course offer for this course already exists in the e-learning system. Teaching staff can store materials relating to teaching courses there: