English Language: Communicating with Confidence

About

This programme focuses on enhancing students' speaking and presentation skills in different English-language public communication settings. Concentrating on preparation, personal delivery skills, pronunciation, intonation as well as body language techniques, the programme gives students the opportunity to put their new-found public speaking skills to the test as museum, factory and city guides, radio presenters, weather forecasters and newsreaders. Students will visit and present at a range of settings both on and off campus, going on to produce specialist items and media packages.

Course aim

On completion of the programme in addition to obtaining 20 credits you will have been given a unique opportunity to:

1. Identify and distinguish between the different types of platforms on which professional speakers present

2. Disseminate information from a range of sources to prepare and deliver presentations in public domains appropriate to the audience

3. Employ newly acquired non-verbal and verbal communication techniques to produce polished presentations for different audiences and in different settings

4. Speak with confidence to different audiences, achieving a high degree of fluency and accuracy

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