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 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Foreign Languages Centre |
| Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Reassessment not allowed |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| NB. Students wishing to take this unit should visit the Foreign Languages Centre website for information regarding enrolment. Aims: The course aims to consolidate language already acquired, for example in Stage 2 Semester 1, and encourages students to broaden the range of factual and expressive language functions required to communicate in a variety of situations, to acquire confidence in selecting appropriate language to achieve a range of everyday tasks and to introduce them to colloquial expressions and informal and formal styles in the written language. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the course students will be able to: * Sustain a reasonably fluent straightforward description on one of a variety of subjects within his or her field of interest, presenting it as a linear sequence of points. * Describe experiences and events, their dreams, hopes and ambitions. * Briefly give reasons and explanations. * Understand straightforward factual information about common everyday or job related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details, provided speech is clearly articulated in a generally familiar accent. * Understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, leisure and education, including short narratives. * Read notes and messages using Hiragana, Katakana and familiar Chinese characters. * Write straightforward connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest, using Hiragana, Katakana and some Chinese characters. Skills: Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated IT skills - facilitated Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught Autonomous learning - facilitated Research and organisational skills - facilitated Cognitive - taught. Content: The course continues to build on the skill base achieved through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course continues to reproduce real-life scenarios and introduces topics which present and practise the language of describing events and people, narrating and expressing likes and dislikes on topics of personal relevance. It follows a graded programme of study. Previous learning is consolidated and additional grammatical structures, specific to the target language, are introduced, which includes the present continuous and the te-form of verbs. |
| Programme availability: |
FL10255 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.Foreign Languages Centre
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