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FL10282: Arabic lower intermediate (part 2)

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2018/9
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Further information on credits Credits: 3      [equivalent to 6 CATS credits]
Further information on notional study hours Notional Study Hours: 60
Further information on unit levels Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Further information on teaching periods Period:
Semester 2
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework - Reading (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Writing (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Listening (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Speaking (CW 25%)
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment:
Reassessment not allowed
Further information on requisites Requisites: Before taking this module you must take FL10281 or equivalent.
Further information on descriptions Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should visit the Foreign Languages website for information regarding enrolment.
Aims:
The course aims to consolidate language already acquired, for example in Lower Intermediate (Part 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 informal and formal styles in the written language.

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.
* Narrate a story or relate the plot of a book or a film and describe their reactions.
* 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 straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/ her field and interests with a good level of comprehension.
* Write straightforward connected text using the Arabic alphabet on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.

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 using the Arabic alphabet. The course continues to reproduce real-life scenarios and introduces topics which present and practise the language of reporting, narrating and expressing opinions, for example on media/ film, personal past events. It follows a graded programme of study. Previous learning is consolidated and additional grammatical structures, specific to the target language, are introduced, which include verb forms, the past and future tenses, present and past participles, syntax, use of adjectives and adverbs, comparisons and the use of pronouns.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

FL10282 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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