English Skills for Employment (LCE3302)
This course aims to develop students' job-hunting skills and effective spoken & written English communication skills for the workplace.
Class contact hours: 3 hrs (tutorials) Credits: 3
Introduction
This course focuses on fostering 3rd to 4th year students’ written and spoken communication skills so that they can increase their employability when they graduate. Students will need to consider communication issues and apply these skills to a number of employment situations through various language tasks and activities during the course.
Aims & Objectives
To allow students to:
- enhance students' job-hunting skills;
- develop students' basic telephone skills when interacting with English speaking colleagues and clients in the workplace;
- enable students to socialize with English speaking colleagues and clients and understand the importance of cultural awareness during their interaction; and
- improve students' writing skills so that they can communicate more effectively in employment situations.
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Course Information
| Year of Study: | 3rd or 4th year |
| No. of Credits: | 3 |
| Teaching Hours: | 3 hours |
| Category: | Free Elective |
| Language of instruction: | English |
Prerequisite: |
Completion of LCE1010 English for Communication I, LCE1020 English for Communication II and LCE2010 English for Communication III are required for 4-year programme students. |
Important Note: |
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Teaching Method
In order to provide rich opportunities for students to practise the language & skills taught during the course, a task-based approach is adopted. In this way students are encouraged to perform a variety of language tasks in class through which they can acquire the target language and skills, rather than relying solely on input from the course instructor. The teaching and learning approach is adopted to enhance the students' interest in the course.
Mock Job Interviews
In accordance with the course objective, students also learn some practical job-hunting skills during the course. In order to build these skills & enhance students’ confidence in job interviews, a 'mock' job interview with each student is arranged towards the end of the course. After the interview, students are provided with detailed feedback on their language performance and interview techniques.
Two students from LCE3302 attended a mock interview with Course Coordinator of LCE3302, Ms Rebecca Pang.
Assessment
The assessment is 100% by coursework. There is no examination.
| 1.Social English & Written Communication | 25% |
| 2.Telephone Skills | 25% |
| 3.Application Letter & CV | 25% |
| 4.Job Interviews | 25% |
Syllabus
| Week | Schedule of Units | Assessment |
| 1 | Course Introduction/Ice-breaking Social English | |
| 2 | Social English | |
| 3 | Social English Written communication at workplace | |
| 4 | Written communication at workplace | |
| 5 | Written communication at workplace | |
| 6 | Assessment 1 Telephone skills | Social English & Written Communication (25%) |
| 7 | Telephone skills | |
| 8 | Telephone skills Assessment 2 | Telephone Skills (25%) |
| 9 | Job-hunting skills I (Application letters/CV) | |
| 10 | Job-hunting skills I (Application letters/CV) | |
| 11 | Job-hunting skills I (Application letters/CV) Assessment 3 | Application letter & CV (25%) |
| 12 | Job-hunting skills II (Job interviews) | |
| 13 | Job-hunting skills II (Job interviews) | |
| 14 | Job-hunting skills II Assessment 4 | Job Interview (25%) |
