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IEN 105 Communicative English (3 credits) This course develops the student’s communicative competence through effective integrated use of language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will learn how to give discussions, presentations, speeches, and to participate in debates. IEN 211 Introduction to Language (3 credits) This course is an introduction to the general features of language, including its nature, components and functions of language, methods of language analysis with some background knowledge of related fields, such as morphology, phonology and syntax with emphasis on how to apply the knowledge to enhance language learning. IEN 212 Advanced Listening and Speaking (3 credits) Prerequisite: IEN 105 Practice of effective listening and speaking skills as well as general etiquette in social interactions, storytelling, dialogs, and group interactions in given situations. IEN 213 Advanced Reading and Writing (3 credits) Prerequisite: IEN 103, IEN 104 Study and practice of strategies for reading academic texts in business identifying principal ideas, understanding text organization, as well as analyzing graphic presentations, text content and writer’s approaches to presenting information. This course also promotes various methods of development, namely, cause-effect, classification, and comparison-contrast, in the writing of advanced rhetoric: analysis, evaluation, and argumentation and persuasion. IEN 214 English Pronunciation (3 credits) Prerequisite: IEN 105 An intensive study of phonological systems and methods of pronunciation of British and American English; a practice in listening and pronouncing English, including the use of phonetic symbols with the emphasis on problems encountered by Thai students IEN 222 English for Business Oral Communication (3 credits) Prerequisite: IEN 105 This course enhances the students’ general business conversation skills. It includes practice in the skills of listening, speaking in the context of entry/junior level work such as appropriate greetings, telephone conversation, welcoming and assisting company guests, taking and transferring verbal messages, responding appropriately to others and taking part in informal discussions and exchanges. BANGKOK UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE 81