|
 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Foreign Languages Centre |
| Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Coursework reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take FL10293 and take FL10294 or equivalent. |
| Description:
| Aims: The course aims to provide students with extensive additions to their vocabulary and to develop linguistic competence in all skill areas. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the course students will be able to * Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity in a variety of contexts. * Give a prepared straightforward presentation on a topic of personal interest or of general or cultural relevance. * Take follow up questions and ask for clarification or repetition if necessary. * Understand the gist of authentic audio material, such as news broadcasts and advertisements. * Understand authentic texts on familiar topics without dependence on a dictionary. * Express ideas and opinions and relate experiences in connected text. 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 consolidates previously acquired language structures and skills and develops the four core competences of listening, speaking, reading and writing. More complex language structures, specific to the target language, such as conditional tenses, the passive and conjunctions, are introduced to help learners access authentic material. Discussion of a variety of general knowledge topics extends learners' ability in expressing and disputing opinions and encourages spontaneous responses. |
| Programme availability: |
FL10307 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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