GST101: use of English and Communication Skills
Welcome to GST 101- Use of English and Communication Skills I. I can assure you will enjoy studying the course. This course guide is a general overview of the course. It provides you with useful information about the structure of the course.
GST 101 will enable you to understand various issues relating to effective communication/study skills.
On successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
- use the listening enabling skills
- listen and comprehend lectures and talks
- take down notes, while listening to a talk or lecture
- retrieve general and specific information through listening comprehension
- state how to listen to and comprehend data, figures, diagrams and charts
- listen for main idea
- listen and be able to interpret and evaluate speaker's view points
- apply effective reading techniques to reading in diverse texts
- skim and scan through diverse reading texts
- read and comprehend at varying speed levels
- discuss how to read for vocabulary development
- acquire and utilise vocabulary of various academic fields
- explain how to comprehend diverse text materials
- describe how to read and comprehend texts with tables
- explain how to read and comprehend scientific texts
- interpret what is read accurately and evaluate author's viewpoints.
GST101- Use of English and Communication Skills I is a two-credit unit course meant to be taken in the first semester, at the 100 level. The course is available to all students who have registered for any programme at National Open University of Nigeria. It is the first part of the four credit unit courses planned for an entire year. The second course which is GST102 will be taught in the second semester. The materials have been developed to suit the distance learning mode.