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¾«¶«´«Ã½app students need to produce spoken language that is fully comprehensible and clearly understood and be able to comprehend spoken texts from others. This course develops students’ capacity to comprehend and produce spoken texts clearly and appropriately in English at an advanced level, to meet the more complex communication demands of tertiary studies in nursing, laws, and research, in both face to face and digital environments. It is benchmarked to either a score of at least 58 on the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) or the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) C1 level to enable students to prepare to meet future registration requirements of a range of professional disciplines. It also serves as a prerequisite for EUS1006 Listening and Speaking Fluently 2.

In this course, activities in English have been organised to develop students' capacity to interact independently with fluency and spontaneity in speech at an advanced level with native speakers of English in face to face and digital academic contexts. Focus is given to speaking and listening in both structured and unstructured spoken texts, with a particular emphasis on developing pronunciation skills for reducing communicative strain for all interlocutors.

On successful completion of this course students will:

1. apply appropriate vowel, consonant sounds, stress, consonant clusters in connected speech on common and some uncommon topics to speak clearly and unambiguously with no strain on interlocutors at an advanced level, benchmarked to at least 58 on the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) C1 level for a range of academic and professional purposes so that ideas are understood with relative ease by academic and professional audiences
2. transfer ideas accurately and with minimal difficulty from fast structured spoken texts on common and some uncommon topics, including technical topics within their specialized fields, into spoken and written text forms that can be used for academic and professional purposes at an advanced level, benchmarked to at least 58 on the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) and the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) C1 level
3. summarise ideas accurately and with minimal difficulty from fast spoken texts on common and some uncommon topics, including technical topics within their specialized fields, into spoken and written texts that can be used for academic and professional purposes at an advanced level, benchmarked to at least 58 on the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) C1 level.