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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Foreign Languages Centre |
| Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| 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 provide the linguistic foundation enabling students to acquire the basic functional language and skills necessary for communication in predictable everyday situations. The course provides basic cultural information and introduces students to some social convention of the country/ countries where the target language is spoken. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the course, students will be able to * Take part in a basic factual conversation. * Deal with routine questions and statements. * Understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of immediate relevance. * Read straightforward information within a known area. * Write notes, complete forms and write short paragraphs reproducing given phrases and applying new grammatical structures encountered. 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 introduces the students to the basic elements of the target language through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing reproducing typical scenarios and situations experienced when visiting or receiving visitors from a country where the target language is spoken, for example, providing basic personal and family information, local geography and employment. It follows a graded programme of study familiarising participants with a number of fundamental linguistic structures specific to the target language. |
| Programme availability: |
FL10146 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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