SPOKEN FLUENCY C, D               AUTUMN 2010


Location and time: Room G21, Thursday  C 16:40-18:10

                                                                      D 18:20-19:50

Facilitator: PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D., tomkat@phil.muni.cz;

office hours: Tue 12-13 and 17-18, Wed 13-14, Thu 15:30-16:30.


Assessment: Peer

1 You assess presentations you were present at (not your own).

2 You scale them from best (80pts) to worst with min.

- 2 pts difference between them if you heard 11+ presentations,

- 3 pts difference between them if you were present to 9 or 10 presentations,

- 4 pts difference between them if you witnessed 7 or 8 presentations,

- 5 pts gap if you heard 5 or 6 presentations.

3 Your criteria are

-          the presentation: how new, useful and memorable you found it for your speaking practice

-          preparation: how innovative you found methods of presenting facts and strategies of
retaining skills; effort invested in rehearsing



Sep. 30: Introduction. Constituents of a good spoken (x written)

              performance. Knowledge x skill. Automaticity.

              Spelling and pronunciation: The Chaos.

              A collection of pronunciation errors.

              A nursery rhyme.

Oct. 7: Revision of nursery rhyme. Segmental exercises.

            Presentation dates.

Oct. 14: Tongue twisters. Stress patterns.

Oct. 21: Presentations C: Tomková, Francisco.

                                     D: Tomková, (Kalčíková, Urbančíková).

Oct. 28: Bank Holiday, no class.

Nov.  4: Presentations C: Mičola, Fáberová, Krajčovicová.

                                     D: Malý, Straková, Mišovičová /in room G22/.

Nov. 11: Presentations C: Šimkaninová, Krejčová, Cano.

                                      D: Šujanová, Volný, Dratvová.

Nov. 18: Reading Week, no class.

Nov. 25: Presentations C: Hvojníková, Dušková, Jechová, Carceller.

                                      D: Čapková, Ferklová, Štichová, (Urbančík).

Dec. 2: Presentations C: Jelínková, Santini, Orlická, Magliano.

                                    D: Sedmera, Dostálová, Rodriguez.

Dec. 9: Presentations C: Karlíková, Peda, Segura, Villar.

                                    D: Santos, Ortiz, Rumpel.

Dec. 16: Feedback class, assessments.