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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Foreign Languages Centre |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 40%, EX 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
FL20204 Re-assessment Work (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: The course aims to provide students with extensive additions to their vocabulary and to develop significant 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. * Write short essays on topics of personal and general interest and write accounts of experiences describing feelings and reactions in connected text with a high degree of accuracy for basic structures. 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 and to express themselves with a greater degree of linguistic competence. Discussion of a variety of general knowledge topics extends learners' ability in expressing and disputing opinions and encourages spontaneous responses. |
| Programme availability: |
FL20204 is Optional on the following programmes:Foreign Languages Centre
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