Syllabus

Intensive English Institute

Ball State University

Muncie, IN

ENIEI 134 Oral Communication

2013 SPRING Session 3

COURSE INFORMATION

Course: ENIEI 134                                       Session: SPRING 2012 Session 3

Schedule: MTRF 10:00am-10:50am       Office: RB395

Instructor: Mr.Thomas D. Lewis              Phone: 765-285-1430

Email: tdlewis2@bsu.edu                          Office hours: TR 2:00pm-3:00pm

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:

[134. 1]    Present personal opinions and experiences about topics introduced in classroom discussions

[134. 2]   Appropriately agree in classroom situations

[134. 3]   Appropriately disagree in classroom situations

[134. 4]  Elicit an interlocutor’s ideas about a topic

[134. 5]   Make a request of an interlocutor

[134. 6]  Report another person’s ideas about a topic

[134. 7]   Demonstrate active listening

REQUIRED TEXTS

Brooks, Margaret (2011). Q: Skills for Success Listening and Speaking (Vol. 2). New York: Oxford. 

REQUIREMENTS

• This is a speaking course. As such, attendance and participation are critical. I expect you to be on time and in class for each scheduled class meeting. I expect you to participate in all scheduled activities. These two aspects of the course will account for a significant portion of your final grade. More details on scoring will follow later in this document.
• You are expected to have all assignments (readings, homework, projects, etc...) completed and ready to hand in at 10am on the day they are due.
• If you are absent on the day a written assignment is due, I will accept it only if it is emailed to me or placed in my office before 10am on the day the assignment is due.
• Spoken quizzes, projects, and exams can only be made up if permission is obtained from me prior to 3pm on the day the assignment is due. This permission will be given on a case-by-case basis.

EVALUATION

Final IEI Departmental grades are Credit/No Credit. Credit is earned when the final course and departmental final exam score combined equal the value of a “C” grade, a minimum of 73% out of a 100% scale.

COURSE EVALUATION

Category	Point Value
Attendance/Participation	100
Oral Presentations	150
Interview Project	300
Audio Blogs	200
Comprehensive Conversation	200
Total	1000

The above score will account for 75 percent of your grade for the course. The remaining 25 percent of your grade will be based on the IEI Final Exam for this course.
 
 

MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS

Diagnostic: This will be a conversation between each individual student and the instructor. The conversation will be designed to evaluate the student’s ability to achieve the learning objectives for the course and will be graded through a scoring rubric. Do not despair if you struggle with some of the questions addressed during the initial diagnostic. It is meant to be difficult and will establish a baseline for your current English speaking ability. Your performance on this activity will no impact your grade for the course.
 

Oral Presentations: Students will make a series of presentations throughout the session on the following topics:

·         Recycling

·         Child Independence

·         Persuasive Speech

These presentations will generally involve collaborating with other students to develop and present material to your classmates. Further details will be provided when each presentation is assigned. Each presentation will be worth 50 points for a total point value of 150 points.

Interview Project: This project will consist of designing and conducting interviews with fellow students, instructors, and people not affiliated with the IEI. Further details on designing and conducting interviews will be provided throughout the session. This assignment is considered the primary assignment for this course and will be worth 300 points.
 

Audio Blogs: Twice each week students will be asked to log on to a website and record an answer to a question provided in class. The process by which this will be completed will be further explained Tuesday, January 15. These blogs will combine to be worth 200 points.

Comprehensive Conversation: This will occur on the final two days of the session. Each student will meet with the instructor and will have a conversation related to the various topics covered throughout the session. This conversation will be scored on a rubric and will be worth 200 points.

Ball State University Class Attendance policy: (published in undergraduate catalogue-“Class Attendance”)

            A student’s official course program is regarded as a contract with the university. Since full performance requires, in part, regular and punctual class attendance, students are expected to attend all classes for which they are registered. Faculty will establish attendance policies for their courses and communicate those policies through course syllabi or outlines.

            Students who know they must be absent from a class should notify the instructor or departmental office. Courtesy requires that students speak to the instructor and preferably present a signed and dated memo briefly stating the reasons for absence.

            Faculty members are responsible for keeping records of attendance of all students registered in each class. Students are responsible for completing any work they have missed. The faculty member is not required to do extra teaching to help students “catch up.”

IEI Departmental Definition of an Absence:

• not being present for an entire class period
• missing 10 minutes or more of a class period
• sleeping in class is considered not being in class (e.g. sleeping 10 minutes means the student is marked absent)
• two tardies

IEI Departmental Definition of Tardy:

• arriving up to 10 minutes late to class
• missing up to 10 minutes of instruction time at any point during the class

In all cases, it is the STUDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY to communicate with his/her instructors regarding absence and tardy situations.

Course Absence Policy:
This is a speaking course. In order for me to evaluate your proficiency and progress in reference to our course objectives I must be able to regularly hear you speak. Therefore, you must be in class. You may miss one day this session without it having an adverse effect on your grade. Starting with your second absence you will begin losing attendance points.
** If you are sleeping, checking Facebook on your cell phone, texting, or otherwise failing to properly engage the classroom activities, this WILL affect your attendance and participation grade for the day.

Important Dates:

• January 10 - Classes begin
• January 21 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day – No class
• February 25 - Last day of IEI classes
• February 26 - Dead Day - No classes
• February 27-28 –IEI Department Final Exams

Academic Honesty:    

      

Academic dishonesty includes using unauthorized aids during tests and other assignment and submitting someone else’s work as your own. It also includes plagiarism, which is using another’s word or ideas without proper citation. Plagiarism is not permitted in this class or any class at Ball State University. You cannot use material written by someone else, or written by you for another class without documenting this. Academic dishonesty may result in No Credit, and may result in being expelled from the university. This topic will be addressed more thoroughly in class throughout the semester.

Holiday Observances: The IEI Department follows and observes all holidays and break periods identified by the University throughout the academic year. These dates can be found on the Ball State website calendar link.

Other observances: Religious holiday observances not identified by Ball State, such as those holidays and observances based on cultural customs, are not considered by the IEI department and the University as excused absences when students choose to remain absent from class at such times. Students must follow absence policies as they are described in the “Course Absence Policy” in this syllabus.

Note: these policies may vary among courses.

Accommodation: If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible. My office location and hours are listed at the top of the syllabus.