Title: WEEK 3 : THE SPEAKING SKILL 1
Course: Communication Skills

Speech is a human behaviour that brings into play the physical, psychological, semantic, neurological, and linguistics elements. It is also the most frequently used mode of communication. This unit will introduce you to informal communication situations with limited text that will improve your spoken language proficiency.

In,this unit, you will study the factors and elements of spoken mode of communication, context, inference and pragmatic factors in utterance interpretation and finally cross cultural elements in the spoken mode of communication.

Week 3 Learning Outcomes

At the end of this unit, you will be able to:

1. Participate effectively in oral conversation to improve on communication abilities

2. Gain increased knowledge regarding structure of ordinary conversation and be able to decipher meaning form it

3. Demonstrate some cross-cultural elements that will render you more proficient in communication

Overview of Student Activities i.e what is required of you.

You will watch videos and read some articles on speaking skills, you can also extend your search to other internet resources before you do your activities. Write notes with paper and pen as you read the articles and watch the clips, identify the relevant and vital points of the reading and video clips