# General English Conversation

**Source**: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/LFA00324L/2025-26
**Parent**: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/international/english-language-support/

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- **Department**: Language and Linguistic Science
- **Credit value**: Information currently unavailable
- **Credit level**: F
- **Academic year of delivery**: 2025-26
  - See module specification for other years:
    [2024-25](https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/LFA00324L/2024-25)
    [2026-27](https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/LFA00324L/2026-27)

## Module summary

This course is aimed at students interested in improving their
confidence and fluency in conversational English so that they can
engage more successfully in a variety of contexts and communicative
situations. Classes will be practical and tailored to the cohort needs.

## Related modules

You need to have a minimum overall score of IELTS 5.0 (or an
equivalent B2 level English language qualification) in order to join
this class.

## Module will run

| Occurrence | Teaching period |
| --- | --- |
| A | Semester 1 2025-26 |
| B | Semester 2 2025-26 |

## Module aims

- To increase your confidence and fluency in conversational
  English in a range of communicative encounters:

  - To identify adequate structures for different types of
    conversational tasks.
  - To develop your
    listening and speaking skills through hands-on situated
    activities.
  - To grow in confidence when
    speaking in a range of situations, from academic encounters to
    everyday communication.
  - To build
    vocabulary suitable for different contexts.
  - To polish your pronunciation and enunciation skills so that
    you can communicate more effectively.

## Module learning outcomes

By the end of the course students should be able to:

- Notice an improvement in their conversational
  English.
- Notice an improvement in their lexical
  knowledge and their ability to make informed choices.
- Notice an improvement in their ability to convey
  information and opinions in a clear and adequate way for each
  specific situation.

## Module content

The module will:

- Increase the range and accuracy of vocabulary,
  specifically related to conversational English in contexts ranging
  from academic situations to everyday informal encounters.
- Aid fluency through practice tasks which will guide
  the user through a variety of speaking tasks.
- Develop techniques to deal with a variety of communicative
  tasks.

## Indicative assessment

None

### Special assessment rules

None

### Indicative reassessment

None

## Module feedback

Since this is a non-accredited course, assessment will be formative,
with a focus on providing students feedback and feedforward
opportunities.Ongoing formative feedback will be given to students in
class and in response to the writing of short essays.

## Indicative reading

You will be expected to buy a copy of the main coursebook for this
course before the first lesson. Information on these books will be
given to you when you register.

- Baker, A. (2006). *Ship or Sheep? An intermediate
  pronunciation course*.3rd edition. Cambridge CUP.
- Hewings, M. (2007). *English Pronunciation in Use:
  Advanced*. Cambridge CUP.
- Murphy, R.
  (2019). *English Grammar in Use* 5th edition. Cambridge
  CUP.
- O’Connell, S. (2010). *Focus on
  IELTS*. Pearson Longman.
- Rogers, L.
  (2020). *Language Hub Upper-Intermediate B2*. Macmillan
  London.