ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
SPEECH AND ORAL ENGLISH SYLLABUS
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OUTCOMES: The
course primarily aims to develop and enhance the
students’ oral communication skills in English by
engaging them to meaningful discussion and
interactive activities. Specifically, students will be
able to:
 acquire understanding of the nature and
function of language and effective oral
communication
 identify and observe correct pronunciation
of critical vowels and consonant sounds
 recognize and use correct prosodic
patterns: intonation, stress, pausing and
blending
 demonstrate active and critical listening
 speak clearly and spontaneously by
adapting one’s speech to situation,
circumstances and people address
 observe social and linguistic conventions
in oral and interactional and transactional
discourse (e.g interview, asking and giving
directions, etc.)
 use communication strategies (e.g
paraphrase, translations
circumlocution) to repair breakdown in
communication
 use conversational gambits in face-to-face
interactions to obtain information, express
modified agreements etc.
 understand the fundamentals of public
speaking and group communication
 develop values of respect, tact, sincerity
and integrity in their daily conversation
COURSE OUTLINE
A. The Nature and Function of Language
B. The Communication Process
1. Elements of Communication
2. Achieving Communicative Competence
C. The Sounds of English: Segmentals
1. The Speech Tract
2. Inventory of Pronunciation Errors of
Filipino in English
3. Vowels
4. Consonants
5. Word Beginning and Endings
D. The Prosodic Feature of English:
Suprasegmentals
1. Stress
2. Reduction
3. Blending
4. Pitch
5. Juncture
6. Intonation
E. Active and Critical Listening
F. Non-verbal Communication
G. Oral Discourse
1. Feature of Spontaneous Conversation
2. Interactional and Transactional Talk
3. Repairing Communication Breakdown
H. Public Speaking
1. Profile of a Good Speaker
2. Overcoming Speech Fright
3. Preparing, Organizing and Delivering a
Speech
I. Dynamics of Group Communication
STRATEGIES
a. Discussion Activities
1. problem-solving
2. consensus-seeking
3. moral dilemma
4. humanistic activities
b. Language Games
1. Relaying and Carrying-out
Instructions
2. Mime Interpretations
and c. Student-centered Interaction Modes
1. Dyadic/Pair work
2. Small Group Discussion
d. Miscellaneous Activities
1. Role Play
2. Simulation
3. Dialogue
4. Interviews
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
 Attendance & Class Participation
through Oral Recitation and Group
Cooperative Activities
 Oral presentation – Finals
 Major Exams
 Assignments and Projects
References:
marco_meduranda@yahoo.com