Module Code - Title:
TE4011
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ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1 (INTERMEDIATE)
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is set at B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
To provide language support to students on the Erasmus exchange programmes to enable them to benefit more fully from their Erasmus experience at a social, cultural and academic level.
To provide integrated tuition and practice in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Syllabus:
This syllabus is set at B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Students work from a set text book, back-up audio visual and on-line material.
Practice is given in the four language skills, language awareness-raising and with special emphasis on pronunciation at this level.
The following grammatical areas are covered: verb tenses e.g. present simple and continuous, past simple and continuous, future forms, present perfect simple and continuous; modality and conditionality; modal verbs expressing obligation, deduction, possibility and ability, first conditional
lexis e.g. frequent collocations, common expressions, conversational responses and idioms, qualifying using adverbs and adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, discourse markers (oral and written) e.g. connectives, sequencing, signposting.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On completion of the module students will be able to:
- reasonably fluently sustain a straightforward description of one of a variety of subjects related to their field of interest, presenting it as linear sequence of points.
- write straightforward texts on a range of familiar subjects, by linking a series of shorter discrete elements into a linear sequence.
- identify both the general message and the specific details of factually based texts on common everyday topics delivered by speakers with clear accents
- read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to their area of interests with a satisfactory level of comprehension
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
- relate to and have a cultural appreciation of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
- Give basic power point presentations on a subject of interest to their fellow class members
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
There are four hours of tuition each week. Elements of the following approaches to teaching and learning will be used; Communicative Language Teaching, Task-based Learning, and the Lexical Approach. Students will be involved in active learning both inside and outside the classroom. They are expected to participate in pair work and group work within the class and to complete all assignments set. They will be encouraged to spend time in the in the language laboratory and to be involved in the language exchange programme organised by the Language Resource area.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Oxenden C and C. Latham-Koenig (2003)
New English File, Intermediate StudentÆs Book
, Oxford University Press
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
jane.seely@ul.ie