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English II - UTCN
CS13.10

Description
 | Describing purpose of oral communication in work/professional related contexts; understanding and differentiating informative talks, persuasive talks, descriptive and argumentative talks.
 | Assessing, predicting and describing audience needs and expectations in the case of technical/scientific communication. Formulating and prioritizing communicative goals: relating to audience expectations.
 | Organizing information and structuring ideas: leading information vs details, supporting info and exemplifying, supplementary info.
 | Oral presentation format: Introduction, body, conclusion Q&A
 | Preparing for speaking to an audience: introducing self, purpose of talk, previewing info and stating policy on questions.
 | Controlling voice and spoken production: prosody of language: word and sentence stress, pace, rhythm and intonation.
 | Using language to make an impact: parallel structures, tripling, cumulative structures; coordination with voice and body language.
 | Preparing visual aid: PP slides – dos and don’ts; technical visual support (graphs, tables, etc.).
 | Introducing, describing, and interpreting visual support data: talking about numerical data, describing trends in graphs/tables, summarizing and/or pointing to relevant numerical values/data.
 | Presenting narrative data. Sequence markers and syntactic connectors. Transitional devices, discourse markers.
 | Drawing a powerful conclusion: recapping main points, concluding, home-take messages.
 | Inviting questions, managing rapport, expressing opinion, attitude.
 | Formal vs informal language – politeness in a foreign language. Using humor, irony and personal anecdote to convey subtle meanings and gain audience support.
 | Students’ presentations

Crédits ECTS
2

Langue d'enseignement
English

Langue d'examen
English

Langue des supports pédagogiques
English

Acquis d'apprentissage fondamentaux

Entité de gestion (faculté)
Automation and Computer Science Faculty - UTCN