This course prepares students for their future academic careers through developing their skills in listening to and comprehending a variety of spoken and recorded English sources employing a wide range of accents and topics. The primary objective of this course is to prepare students to more readily understand English lectures in content courses at KAC and in future academic or professional situations. Additionally, students will have additional opportunities to practice pronunciation and language acquisition skills relevant to their overall comprehension abilities and these activities will be emphasized in the pre- level course.
The course materials will likely involve audio-visual broadcasts from CNN, Voice of America, and other internet sources as well as pronunciation texts such as Clear Speech. Evaluation will be based on comprehension but, unlike Professional Reading class, will chiefly involve aural rather than lexical abilities.