Page 42 - R2017-REC-ECE-UG Syllabus

Department of ECE, REC

OBJECTIVES
• To upgrade the learners’ listening and speaking skills for educational purposes.
• To enhance the employability skills of the learners with a special focus on listening and speaking
skills.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 6
Importance of listening and Types of Listening – listening to TED Talks, lectures, etc.
Speaking: group discussions on general topics like how to grow organic potted plants, to furnish an apartment
inexpensively, etc. – Phonetics

UNIT II APPRECIATIVE LISTENING AND IMPROMPTU 6
Listening - Listening to motivational speeches, music and poetry. Speaking – pick and talk, short talks on any
event on topics- a trip to remember, a job I’d love to have, etc. –
Vocabulary: Collocation.

UNIT III INFORMATIVE LISTENING AND PERSUASIVE SPEAKING 6
Listening – Listening- to gather information such as facts, directions, news or instructions. Speaking –
Persuasive speaking- convincing the audience with the speaker’s view on the topics- food additives and
unhealthiness, financial education is important in today’s world, etc. – Vocabulary: Idioms and Phrases.

UNIT IV CRITICAL LISTENING AND SPEAKING ON SPECIAL OCCASION 6
Listening – Critical Listening- listening to examine and evaluate the message for logic and truth - televised
debate, election campaign. Speaking – speech to commemorate a person or an event- speech of Introduction,
etc. – Vocabulary: Foreign Words and Phrases.

UNIT V EMPATHETIC LISTENING AND DEMONSTRATIVE SPEAKING 6
Listening– Empathetic Listening – paying attention to another person with empathy – listening to problems
and issues (videos). Speaking – Demonstrative speaking – Demonstrate a process using visual aids (charts,
graphs, maps, pictures, etc.) – Grammar: Different types of Questions.

TOTAL= 30 PERIODS

OUTCOMES
On completion of the course students will be able to
• Identify the different types of listening and speaking for effective interpersonal communication.
• Discuss and respond to content of a listening passage.
• Comprehend and answer questions based on the texts/passages given.
• Understand different genres of texts and comprehend the materials to improve their vocabulary and
are familiar with new words, phrases, sentence structures and ideas.
• Make inferences and predictions about spoken discourse.

REFERENCES
1. “Technical Communication – Principles and Practice,” Second Edition – Meenakshi Raman and Sangeetha
Sharma, Oxford University Press, December, 2011.
2. “Interpersonal Skills: How to develop Interpersonal Skills for work and home,” Henry Lee (Kindle Edition)
3. “Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking,” Erik Palmer (Kindle Edition)

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