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Academic Year: | 2013/4 |
Owning Department/School: | Foreign Languages Centre |
Credits: | 3 |
Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
Period: |
Semester 2 |
Assessment: | CW 100% |
Supplementary Assessment: |
Reassessment not allowed |
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Description: | NB. Students wishing to take this unit should visit the Foreign Languages Centre website for information regarding enrolment. This unit will only be available as part of the Community Courses programme, subject to viability. Availability is not therefore guaranteed. Aims: The course aims to consolidate language already acquired, for example in Stage 1 Semester 1, and to extend students' active and passive vocabulary, improve fluency, pronunciation, accuracy and comprehension skills. The course aims to revise and extend high frequency language of personal relevance and to introduce students to informal and formal styles. The course aims to increase students' awareness of cultural information and social conventions in countries where the target language is spoken. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the course, students will be able to: * Participate in an everyday conversation with one sympathetic native speaker. * Ask for clarification, talk about routine activities in the past and express plans for the future. * Express likes and dislikes. * Catch main points in short, clear messages and announcements. * Find specific, predictable information in everyday material. * Write messages and short texts, e.g. letters. Skills: Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed. Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated. IT skills - facilitated. Intercultural skills - fcilitated and taught. Autonomous learning - facilitated. Research and organisational skills - facilitated. Cognitive - taught. Content: The unit builds on the basic elements of the target language previously studied, for example in Stage 1, Semester 1, through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, including the Cyrillic alphabet. It increases the role play framework of typical scenarios. It follows a graded programme of study expanding the vocabulary base and linguistic functions. Language structures introduced in Semester 1 will be revised and consolidated and new structures introduced, including the most common structures and phrases for talking about the past and future. Students will be required to demonstrate the assimilation of new vocabulary and structures by writing short passages. |
Programme availability: |
FL10237 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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