Oral Training 2 is a second-year required course and builds on the English-language skills developed in Oral Training 1. This course focuses primarily on using spoken English for academic purposes, such as group discussions and delivering oral presentations. The course continues to stress accuracy in speaking and writing and emphasizes skills and strategies to improve the ability of students to communicate in English. Studens also learn how to analyze and strengthen their spoken English. The general goal of the course is to increase the academic English language proficiency to a high-intermediate level in speaking. This course is taught together with Composition 2.

In Composition II, you will learn to: 1. To organize essays in a logical order (time, spatial, emphatic order) and with proper transitions 2. To write a narrative essay that is developed inductively or deductively 3. To write well-organized descriptive paragraphs about a person or a place 4. To write a well-organized expository essay that has a clear thesis and supporting details 5. To write a well-organized summary-response essay on a selected article (to summarize, paraphrase, and quote) In Oral Training II, you will learn to: 1. To control volume, pausing, and rate of speaking, and to improve eye contact, vitality, and posture 2. To tell a short story clearly and fluently 3. To conduct an interview using techniques such as preparing questions, getting more information, giving encouragement, asking for repetition and clarification, restating, and interrupting 4. To paraphrase and summarize the ideas of others in a group discussion 5. To give a summary-response speech

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