The “Academic Speaking and Writing Skills” courses make up the second part of the Sprachpraxis module ang080. These are practical courses geared toward teaching you how to give effective presentations in an academic setting and developing your academic writing ability, as well as introducing the culture, language and society of different Anglophone countries. (The courses in SoSe17 cover Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Great Britain and Ireland, depending on the lecturer.)

Regardless of the topic, in each course you will prepare and give at least two presentations or other spoken activities, and write at least one short text as well as completing an in-class writing task. There will also be grammar and vocabulary assignments focussing on useful language for academic speaking and writing. As with “Introduction to Integrated Language Skills”, the course is graded on a pass-fail basis.