IEN 105 Communicative English
(3 credits)
This course develops the student’s communicative
competence through effective integrated use of language skills
in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will learn
how to give discussions, presentations, speeches, and to
participate in debates.
IEN 211 Introduction to Language
(3 credits)
This course is an introduction to the general features
of language, including its nature, components and functions of
language, methods of language analysis with some background
knowledge of related fields, such as morphology, phonology
and syntax with emphasis on how to apply the knowledge to
enhance language learning.
IEN 212 Advanced Listening and Speaking
(3 credits)
Prerequisite: IEN 105
Practice of effective listening and speaking skills as well
as general etiquette in social interactions, storytelling, dialogs,
and group interactions in given situations.
IEN 213 Advanced Reading and Writing
(3 credits)
Prerequisite: IEN 103, IEN 104
Study and practice of strategies for reading academic
texts in business identifying principal ideas, understanding
text organization, as well as analyzing graphic presentations,
text content and writer’s approaches to presenting information.
This course also promotes various methods of development,
namely, cause-effect, classification, and comparison-contrast,
in the writing of advanced rhetoric: analysis, evaluation, and
argumentation and persuasion.
IEN 214 English Pronunciation
(3 credits)
Prerequisite: IEN 105
An intensive study of phonological systems and
methods of pronunciation of British and American English; a
practice in listening and pronouncing English, including the use
of phonetic symbols with the emphasis on problems encountered
by Thai students
IEN 222 English for Business Oral Communication (3 credits)
Prerequisite: IEN 105
This course enhances the students’ general business
conversation skills. It includes practice in the skills of listening,
speaking in the context of entry/junior level work such as
appropriate greetings, telephone conversation, welcoming and
assisting company guests, taking and transferring verbal
messages, responding appropriately to others and taking part
in informal discussions and exchanges.
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