The following skills are the learning outcomes of this course: 

READING

Students will practice reading a text:

• to comprehend it fully (identifying main/supporting ideas, identifying tone, purpose, and audience, text annotation, guessing meaning from context)
• critically by identifying inferred meanings, arguments, and attitudes, distinguishing between facts and opinions, and evaluating information to make critical judgments
• strategically when doing research to identify relevant sources and eliminate the irrelevant ones: predict content by looking at the title and subtitles, reading the abstract, introduction & conclusion, skimming and scanning the text
• to use it as support in speaking by evaluating and synthesizing information from multiple texts

LISTENING

Students will practice while listening and note-taking:

• for specific purposes
• to identify main ideas, supporting ideas/details, and implied ideas
• to recognize the relationship between a recording/video and a reading text
• to reflect on and react to ideas in a recording/video
• to evaluate ideas in a recording/video to use them as support in speaking

SPEAKING

Students will practice speaking to:

• share concrete/ abstract information accurately and fluently, using appropriate structures, vocabulary, expressions, turn taking and compensating strategies, and non-verbal cues adapting to different types of spoken discourse
• convey specific meaning in talks and exchanges in a clear idea development
• develop appropriate oral production and interaction skills and/or strategies
• participate in (transactional and interactional) conversations
• participate in formal/ informal discussions
• prepare and deliver presentations on in/formal, familiar, concrete/abstract topics
• collaborate with others to do a task properly
• integrate speaking with listening, reading, writing to accomplish real-life (like) tasks