In this course you will be working on the following skills:
Presentation oratory development
- Introduction to communicative competence, including paralinguistic features (body language and prosody)
- Considering the audience and register
- Structuring your presentation (macro structure – micro, including signposting)
- Rhetoric and the art of oratory: analysis of key rhetorical devices used in iconic speeches)
- Individualised analysis (video and written reports) to promote introspective skills
- Presenting reports, ideas, and making suggestions in a meeting
- Conflict resolution analysis and development
Writing development
- The building blocks of written language: from the clause to full-text. This is essential in providing clients with a comprehensive understanding of how written language is structured and how nuances in form and function can impact the power of an utterance
- Genre and style analysis
- Writing reports
- Email correspondence: register, structure and the ´mirroring technique´ to help develop relationships
- Social media posts: style, ethics, impact
Pronunciation development and Accent Training
- A tailored diagnostic to improve individual´s intelligibility and increase utterance effect by focusing on intonation, sentence stress, and pace
- A comprehensive review of the phonological system of English and factors that can cause difficulty when conversing with native speakers
If interested in receiving a quotation of this course, please send us an email outlining your objectives at the following email address: info@keelyalgarlanguages.com