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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 a near native-like level. It is benchmarked to either a score of at least 73 on the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) or the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) C1+ level, to meet the more complex communication demands of tertiary studies in education, in both face-to-face and digital environments and to enable students to prepare to meet future registration requirements of a range of professional disciplines.

In this course, activities in English have been organised to develop students' capacity to interact independently with fluency and spontaneity in speech at a near native-like 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 combinations, consonant clusters, tone units, and intonation in connected speech on a wide range of common and uncommon topics to speak clearly and unambiguously with minimal searching for expressions at a near native-like level, benchmarked to at least 73 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, including implicit meaning, accurately and with no difficulty from fast native speed and longer structured spoken texts on a wide range of common and 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 a near native-like level, benchmarked to at least 73 on the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) C1+ level.
3. Summarise ideas accurately and with no difficulty from fast native speed and longer spoken texts on a wide range of common and uncommon topics, including technical topics within their specialized fields, into spoken and written texts that can be used for academic and professional purposes at a near native-like level, benchmarked to at least 73 on the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) and the Common European Framework of Languages (CEFR) C1+ level.