The aim of this integrated skills course is to enable students to improve their overall English proficiency. It will involve all four skills, although more emphasis will be given to listening and speaking than to reading and writing. All of these four skills will be practiced in both semesters. Students will be expected to engage in a variety of activities, such as: (1) performing different types of listening and speaking tasks, (2) working in small groups to prepare and give presentations, which may involve team teaching, and (3) reading novels, short stories, or graded readers, and then writing about them critically. The emphasis to be placed upon each of these, or indeed any other, activities will be decided after negotiation between the students and the instructor.
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