ALCP 015C - ALCP Integrated Speaking Skills

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:

1. Develop increased fluency and confidence in real-time online speaking contexts.
2. Demonstrate effective participation in academic and real-world communicative tasks.
3. Apply appropriate language structures and vocabulary to express ideas clearly at their proficiency level.
4. Use interaction strategies to initiate, sustain, and conclude discussions.
5. Organize and deliver structured oral presentations with increasing complexity and independence.
6. Adapt speaking performance to audience, purpose, and task expectations.
7. Demonstrate measurable growth from diagnostic to final performance assessment.

Required Materials

Instructor-provided materials including readings, videos, and speaking prompts.

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