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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Foreign Languages Centre |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW 40%, EX 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
FL10249 Re-assessment Work (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| 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 understand the general meaning of non-routine information within a familiar area and to introduce them to colloquial expressions and informal and formal styles in the written language. It aims to increase the students' active and passive use of characters. 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 for opinions and plans. * 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 familiar Chinese characters * Write straightforward connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest, using exclusively characters * Read and write approx. 130 characters * They can write personal letters, using Pinyin, describing experiences and impressions. 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 reporting, narrating and expressing opinions 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 include conjugation of verbs to express a conjecture, a hypothesis or an obligation. |
| Programme availability: |
FL10249 is Optional on the following programmes:Foreign Languages Centre
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