UVU Course Catalog Description

• Prerequisite(s): Department Approval
• For students whose native language is other than English
• Studies advanced concepts of pronunciation, intonation, stress, English phonics,
• critical thinking, and vocabulary,
• Provides opportunities for students to build confidence in public speaking
• Emphasizes speaking and listening in advanced academic situations such as note-taking and participating in class discussions and debates
• Includes weekly use of the UVU Language Lab where advanced conversation skills are emphasized and practiced
• Satisfies AAS Humanities requirements

Course Objectives

This course

• helps students
  • understand an academic lecture (80%),
  • understand and recognize varying registers,
  • state and support an academic position on an abstract topic,
  • build academic vocabulary,
  • increase fluency,
  • give a formal academic presentation,
  • understand journalistic (current events) and cultural content,
  • expand understanding of idioms and slang, and
  • reduce accent for understandability;

• includes weekly use of the UVU language lab where advanced conversation skills are emphasized and practiced.