ACADEMIC ORACY, Spring 2015


Location and time: G24, Tue 1410-1540.

Facilitator: Kateřina Tomková, 2060@mail.muni.cz.

Office hours: Tue 1200-1400.

Assessment: active attendance 2pts a session; *assigned presentation up to 10pts;  **students’ own
initiative presentations up to 20pts; participation in the skit up to 30 pts, final test max. 50
pts.


                                       Preliminary Syllabus



                                               Date

                                          ORACY&AWARENESS

                                               Date

                                            SKIT&SKILLS

                                              Feb 17


                                     Introduction of projects:

                                     1)   Oracy topics below,

                                2)   Skit to perform in late April;

                        3)   Election of best speakers to invite on May 12.

                             Academic contexts. University hierarchy.

  Films and books set in the Academia (Changing Places, Small World, Educating Rita, Possession,
                   Arcadia, Social Network, Smiley, Gossip, Good Will Hunting).

         *Course administrator: _______xxxx_____Jan Čapek xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


                                                Feb

                                                24

                    Consistent accent. Segmental sounds. Pronunciation errors.

Collection of errors taboo game. Tongue twisters, stress patterns. The most frequent mistakes made
                                        by Czech academics.

Ideas for skit (links for 2010 (AO Exam Skit Fléda Brno May 2010), 2011 (The ED Odyssey,) 2012 (AO
             Conference), 2013 Introduction to Zombie Studies, 2014 Dreamin´ America).

                                               Mch 3

                                   Delimitation of the subject.


                      Election of best speakers at the dept. of E+Am Studies


                                Tomková: Perceptions of Non-Native

                           Pronunciation of English by Native Speakers.

                                       **Academic hierarchy

                                         **Academic Slang

                             **Presentation technicalities and skills.

                      *M.Ježek: Upton´s Model of RP (Master´s dissertation).

                    *I. Headlandová Kalischová: Intonation Centres (PhD. Diss.)

      *M. Sučková: Anglophone Expatriates / Language Attrition / Communication Accommodation


                                              Mch 10

                                    Planning this year´s skit.

                       For inspiration, last performance´s google document:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L10ecSQVJlERBp7iMvHuM-fhMNfUpiVDhQvKf07-GoE/edit?pli=1


                                This year´s skit´s google document:


    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1|PoxfJLXLgeYCBmr_cbFrzUVs_rvt-u-8U1LHOngSyw/edit?pli=1



                                              Mch 17

*Trudgill: Conflicting Identities K. Dudáková




                             *Crystal+Davy: Investigating English Style.


                                        Reading Irish jokes

                                   to practice elocution skills

                                       on St. Patrick´s Day

                                              Mch 24

Final decision on the skit, forming of a google document which can be updated online by characters
                                 themselves creating their lines.


                         Brainstorming for lines, props and stage effects.


                             Distribution of tasks promoting the skit.






                                              Mch 31

                            **Accents in The Sanctuary E. Kratochvílová




                                 *Self-Defeating Beliefs  A.Sharma







                                            Apr 7 + 14

                                   **Journalistic Comedy V Mareš


                            **Foreign Accents on Am TV T. Walsbergerová


                                     Further work on the skit.


                                     This year´s skit script:


 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1|PoxfJLXLgeYCBmr_cbFrzUVs_rvt-u-8U1LHOngSyw/edit?usp=sharing



                                              Apr. 21


                                            D. Strecha

                                            J. Martiník

                                            J. Foustka

                                              J. Knez



                                              Apr 28

                                    Dress rehearsal 1 in class.



                                               May 5








                           Presentations by I. Džombić and M. Abdelkader


                                            Final test.


                                     Dress rehearsal 2 at 7pm.

                            Dress rehearsal 3 the morning of CN, May 6.

                                              May 12

                                        Evaluation of test,


                                Discussion with the elected speakers.