IEN 212 Advanced Listening and Speaking 1
Prerequisite: IEN 105
The course builds students’ listening comprehen-
sion and oral communication as well as social etiquette in
social and group interaction. Students will practice skills for
communication in real day-to-day situations such as making
and responding to a request, stating an agreement or
disagreement, giving an opinion and arguing with an idea.
IEN 213 Advanced Reading and Writing 1
Prerequisite: IEN 103, IEN 104
This course will develop the core transferable skills
in critical thinking, reading, and writing. The students will
read various types of texts extensively and intensively. Topics
include identifying the main idea and supporting details,
determining the author’s purpose and tone, identifying
patterns of organization in a paragraph or passage, recog-
nizing the relationships between sentences, and identifying
and using context clues to determine the meanings of words.
The course also allows the students to practice typical
academic writing tasks such as paraphrasing and writing a
summary.
IEN 214 English Pronunciation
Prerequisite: IEN 105
An intensive study of phonological systems and
methods of pronunciation of British and American English;
the class provides a practice in listening and pronouncing
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English, including the use of phonetic symbols with the
emphasis on problems encountered by Thai students.
IEN 215 Advanced Listening and Speaking 2
Prerequisite: IEN 212
The practice of advanced listening and speaking
skills focusing on students’ critical thinking skills. Students
will practice predicting, identifying main ideas and details,
expressing opinions on various topics such as current global
issues or controversial issues.
IEN 216 Advanced Reading and Writing 2
Prerequisite: IEN 213
Students will explore different genres of academic
writing and how these reflect different rhetorical purposes.
The course also promotes the students’ ability to utilize
various methods of development, namely, cause-effect,
classification, and comparison-contrast, in the writing of
advanced rhetoric like analysis, evaluation, and argumenta-
tion or persuasion.
IEN 222 English for Business Oral Communication
Prerequisite: IEN 105
This course enhances the students’ general
business conversation skills with practice in responding
appropriately to others and taking part in informal discus-
sions and exchanges. Case studies will be used to
introduce business concepts and vocabulary for analysis and