ALCP 015C - ALCP Integrated Speaking Skills
4735081
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences
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Course Description
ALCP Integrated Speaking Skills
This course develops academic and real-world speaking skills through interactive online activities, guided practice, and performance-based assessments. Students at different proficiency levels complete the same communicative tasks with different language complexity expectations.
Who Should Take This Course
- English Language Learners: Specifically those looking to improve their academic and real-world speaking proficiency across different levels of complexity.
- Students Seeking Fluency: Individuals who want to develop better pacing, clarity, and confidence in real-time online speaking environments.
- Academic-Bound Students: Those needing to master structured oral presentations, small-group academic discussions, and formal interaction strategies (like paraphrasing and summarizing).
- Collaborative Learners: Students who enjoy interactive environments, as the course requires active participation in group problem-solving and peer feedback.
- Student must be located within the United States.
- Student do not need to be enrolled at the University of Idaho. Everyone is welcome!
What You’ll Gain
By the end of this 8-week course, students will:
- Develop increased fluency and confidence in real-time online speaking contexts.
- Demonstrate effective participation in academic and real-world communicative tasks.
- Apply appropriate language structures and vocabulary to express ideas clearly at their proficiency level.
- Use interaction strategies to initiate, sustain, and conclude discussions.
- Organize and deliver structured oral presentations with increasing complexity and independence.
- Adapt speaking performance to audience, purpose, and task expectations.
- Demonstrate measurable growth from diagnostic to final performance assessment.
Required Materials
Instructor-provided materials including readings, videos, and speaking prompts.
Questions?
Email Beth Wiens (bwiens@uidaho.edu)
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