Syllabus

Prepare students to live, work and study abroad, improve their international communication skills using podcasts to boost their listening and reading comprehension, speaking, writing and vocabulary development.

Orientation Module

Welcome to our International Communication 02 course.

Get introduced to the course methodologies and procedures.

Mission

To provide a teaching program, an intensive course, where students learn and have fun using podcasts. To this end, we have created a modern educational environment that can efficiently meet and up-to-date language learning trends and can also accept the incorporation of suggestions from teachers and students from all over.

Vision

To improve student's international communication expertise using podcasts specially for better listening comprehension, vocabulary development and improving oral communication skills.

Values and Philosophy

Major elements that will be used in this course will be organized around different situations to explore a variety of listening/speaking skills development in these contexts.

Topics are organized around the functions most presented in a multicultural context understanding and discussions.

Activities and most tasks are organized around the ideas and beliefs about the nature of the four skills, speaking, reading, writing, and listening, to come and go and reflect national and international contexts. We support our learners on their journey with effective feedback.

Theory of Multiple Intelligence. In order to capture the full range of abilities and talents that people possess, Gardner theorizes that people do not have just an intellectual capacity, but have many kinds of intelligence, including musical, interpersonal, spatial-visual, and linguistic intelligence.

Methodology

We combine knowledge with technological, pedagogical and didactic competence to transparency, to ensure the delivery of practical results that make a difference in the daily lives of our students. We are happy with what we do. Objectivity and practice in class can promote changes that generate significant results.

Education in Brazil or abroad with viable investments according to your needs and goals. We offer courses that make sense to you. So, we consider your reality and we must know very well about your needs. Our courses also feature a variety of accents and texts from various English-speaking countries.

Distinguish between BICS & CALP

Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills – those skills required for social and conversational situations such as introductions, greetings, small talk, survival English, and basic social interactions. Acquired during the 1st-3rd years of exposure to the language.

Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency – are skills needed for completing academic tasks successfully such as drawing conclusions, justifying an argument, and interpreting and comparing evidence. Acquired in the 5th-7th year of education in English.

Activities and procedures

Teaching Procedures

Strategies Identification of the means and establishment of steps to achieve the objectives.

Approaches Methods Techniques

Procedures Including teaching and learning activities

Performance and assessments Resources and environment

Support Course Program Syllabus Curriculum

Textbooks and materials (to support the curriculum)

Course goal

Technology

Digital tools and emerging technologies have influenced teachers and students in their relationship with education. We used podcasts for they are an integral part of this relationship, valuable digital tool in ELT, enabling educators to produce authentic materials which are appropriate to the needs and interests of learners. Podcasting provides a relaxed opportunity to learn and practice English, improve listening and vocabulary significantly, and speaking and writing more accurately, as students can create and publish their own podcasts. One of the main objectives of the International Communication course program is to empower students therefore they can develop better conditions to face the demands of the job market and distinguished academic performance by using the skills they acquired throughout the course. The program, contents, lesson plans, materials, activities, teaching platforms, social media contents, assessments, quizzes, videos, vlogs, podcasts produced by students and instructors, videos and photos of students in their activities, can be accessed through our websites or app.

Major elements used in this course will be organized around different situations to explore a variety of listening/speaking skills development in given contexts.

Podcasts produced by students usually has between 1-3 minutes, are relaxed and related to the topics of each week of the course.

Topics are organized around the functions most presented in a multicultural context understanding and discussions.

Activities and most tasks are organized around the ideas and beliefs about the nature of the four skills, speaking, reading, writing, and listening, to come and go and reflect ESL | EFL - national and international contexts.

Explore the Theory of Multiple Intelligence aiming to capture the full range of abilities and talents that we have. Gardner theorizes that people do not have just an intellectual capacity, but have many kinds of intelligence, including musical, interpersonal, spatial-visual, and linguistic intelligence.

We are combining and implementing expertise and experience, educational knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and technological knowledge highlighting two main aspects:

1 Some challenges that students might have in using the tool

As Google Drive might be operated by phone, tablet or desktop some non-native might have to get to know how to operate when in a different device he/she had learned firstly. Intuitive and easy to use, it is a popular free service that allows beginners get concerned in activities according to the lesson plan and objectives without losing focus, see updates in real time with coauthors, that would positively balance technology experience among the disparity of levels in a heterogeneous group. Because it encompasses Google Docs, Google Slides, which is analogous to Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Sheets, allocate collaborative editing simultaneously, automatic saved and with offline capabilities, one who was not familiarized with information technology, let us say never used a Word Processor, might resist at first, except for when glimpsing into a peer writing remotely in his/her Doc and being able to assists each other. This fantastic way to interact each other, and the exciting possibilities for collaboration and understanding willpower control and avoid external distractions of technology helping apprentices and proficient to apply the tools toward class assignments.

2 How we would deal with multi-levels (digital-natives and non-natives combined) using this tool in the same class

Using a survey form that details what students can and cannot do. Once identified that one need extra support of the majority category, requires learning how to use the tool in a broad-spectrum, direction and time we might pair learners in proportion to their handiness level. Work in pairs or small groups. Giving the beginner the opportunity to manage the tool, assisted by one who is more experienced, therefore motivating both levels of technological abilities to teach and to learn something in English by now. Provide clear guidelines to all learners and endow with timed pattern doings and more guided activities to help students become familiarized with the latest tools allocating time for learners who are digital natives and have already followed what we are doing, turn and help their neighbors. It would in fact lead the digital natives to use the new technology in the way the teacher is requiring to. Make a second survey to assess students’ abilities to know if it would be needed to provide tutorials.

We offer security to users of our platforms. Most apps like Google Meet, Teams, Skype, and Zoom give us the option to make and receive calls by logging in to their study sites on a web browser without downloading any special software. Using a browser instead of downloading an app is an easy way to stay a little safer.

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