ELI 70 (2): Intermediate Listening and Speaking
Spring 2002
Tues. & Thurs. 9:00 – 10:15
Moore 102
Instructor:
Barbara Schulz
Email:
bschulz@hawaii.edu
Office:
Moore 586
Office phone: 956-2789
Office hours: Tues. & Thurs. 10:30-11:30 or by appointment
Course Description
The intermediate level course provides students the opportunity to improve their listening
and speaking skills in an academic context, paying particular attention to those skills
which will facilitate the comprehension of university classroom lectures, improve
participation in academic discussions and promote their ability to make more organized
and comprehensible academic presentations.
Course Materials
The following textbook is required:
• Espeseth, M. (1999) Academic Listening Encounters: Listening, Note Taking and
Discussion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
I like this book better than Quest, which I used for 70 in the fall. It's less specialized and I
find the topics more accessible. Both Quest and this book have nice pre- during- and
post-listening activities.
Additional material:
• A blank audio-tape for pronunciation exercises.
• An email account. It is essential that you have an email account that you access
regularly.
Course Requirements
• Class participation:
There will be in-class listening and speaking activities such as small group and whole
class discussions as well as short presentations and listening for which active
participation are expected.
• Homework assignments:
You will be required to prepare listening activities at home and do small projects as
homework which will prepare you for in-class discussions.
I wanted to have students do some listening activities at home, but I never got around
to making the tapes available from the language lab on the first floor. I still think,
though, that it can save some time and boredom to have student do such listening
activities as homework.
• Two oral presentations:
Students will be asked to give two oral presentations
-one group presentation to the whole class
-one individual presentation to the whole class
For each presentation you will be required to prepare a handout for the instructor and
your classmates.
Students seem to always find the presentations most useful.
• Discussion leader:
You will be leading a small-group discussion on a topic of your choice and write a
one-page reflection on your experience.
I like this project, and I think students do, too. This gives them an opportunity to deal
with topics they are interested in.
• Audio-journal:
You will keep an audio-journal, which you will use to record pronunciation exercises.
You will have to hand in this tape twice during the semester, once in the beginning
and a second time towards the end.
The pronunciation activities worked much better in 70 than they did in 80. maybe this is
because 80-students feel too advanced for it. But 90% of my 70-students found them
very helpful. I also had a very lively group, so maybe that's why it worked so well.
They weren't afraid to do the pronunciation exercises in class.
Handouts as well as all major assignments that have to be handed in to the instructor
must be typed. Hand written versions will not be accepted.
Grading
ELI 70 is graded Credit/No Credit. In order to receive credit for this course, students must
receive at least 80% of the total number of points.
• Class participation
• Homework assignments
• Group presentation
• Individual presentation
• Discussion leader
• Audio-journal
30 points maximum (20%)
30 points maximum (20%)
15 points maximum (10%)
30 points maximum (20%)
30 points maximum (20%)
15 points maximum (10%)
Attendance:
Regular and punctual attendance as well as active participation are crucial to your success
in this course. You may not miss more than 6 classes. A 7th absence will automatically
result in failure of this course, irrespective of the reason for your absence. Coming late
three times will count as one absence. In addition to this each of your absences affects
your participation grade.
If you are absent from class, it is your responsibility to contact your classmates or the
instructor to find out what was missed.
Visitors to the Classroom:
Throughout the semester, there will probably be several visitors who come to observe the
instructor and the class. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that the observer
may be conducting research in order to try to improve the ELI. Another reason may be
that a graduate student in the Department of Second Language Studies is conducting
research relating to teaching or language. Finally, as part of their professional
development, ELI teachers observe each other so as to improve our teaching. The
instructor will try to announce the visitor in advance and explain the purpose of the visit.
These visits will be kept to a minimum, and the visitors will be advised to not disrupt the
class. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask your instructor. Mahalo for
your kokua in helping us to improve the quality of the ELI.
A Note about Plagiarism
The ELI recognizes that rules regarding academic honesty and intellectual property are
different in different cultures. While we certainly respect each culture’s way of doing
things, we also recognize that, here at UH-Manoa, academic honesty is expected of all
students, and acts of academic dishonesty, such as cheating or plagiarism, are not
tolerated. Common punishments for plagiarism, throughout UH-Manoa, include failing
the assignment, failing the course, or even being suspended or expelled from the
university.
The following definition of plagiarism comes from the UH-Manoa Student Conduct
Code:
Plagiarism includes but is not limited to submitting, in fulfillment of an academic
requirement, any work that has been copied in whole or in part from another individual's
work without attributing that borrowed portion to the individual; neglecting to identify as
a quotation another's idea and particular phrasing that was not assimilated into the
student's language and style or paraphrasing a passage so that the reader is misled as to
the source; submitting the same written or oral or artistic material in more than one course
without obtaining authorization from the instructors involved; or "drylabbing," which
includes obtaining and using experimental data and laboratory write-ups from other
sections of a course or from previous terms.
University of Hawai`i at Manoa Student Conduct Code (1992), p. 6
The pressures of university study can make it very tempting, at times, to try downloading
a paper from the internet, borrowing someone else’s work without referencing them, or
turning in a paper you’ve already written or are writing for another course. All of these
things are forms of plagiarism! If you find yourself considering something like this,
please don’t do it – instructors and program administrators have become very good at
finding plagiarized work, so the chances are extremely high that you will be caught.
Instead, come see me and I would be delighted to help you. This is a much better
alternative than failing the course.
Additionally all ELI writing courses include work on ways to avoid plagiarism.
It is ultimately each student’s responsibility to be aware of the rules regarding plagiarism,
and to learn how to avoid it. Ignorance of the rules, or saying “I forgot about that” or “I
made a mistake” are not considered valid excuses for plagiarism.
For more information on plagiarism, and ways to avoid it, see the following page on the
ELI website:
http://www.hawaii.edu/eli/students/plagiarism.html