Module Code - Title:
TE4021
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ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1 (UPPER INTERMEDIATE)
Year Last Offered:
2026/7
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is set at B2 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 tuition and practice in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Syllabus:
This syllabus is set at B2 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.
Integrated tuition and practice is given in the four language skills.
The following grammatical areas are covered: Phrasal verb structure, position of adverbs, future time forms, conditionals, narrative tenses, modal verbs of deduction
lexis e.g. frequent collocations, common expressions, conversational responses and idioms, discourse markers (oral and written) e.g. connectives, sequencing, signposting.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- give clear, systematically developed oral descriptions and presentations, with appropriate highlighting of significant points, and relevant supporting detail.
- write clear, detailed texts on a variety of subjects related to their field of interest, synthesising and evaluating information and arguments from a number of sources
- interpret and decode standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on both familiar and unfamiliar topics normally encountered in personal, social, academic, or work life.
- read with a large degree of independence, adapting style and speed of reading to different texts and purposes, and use appropriate reference sources selectively.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
- relate to and have a cultural appreciation of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
- Give power point presentations on a subject of their choice 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
Prime Texts:
Oxenden, C and C. Latham-Koenig (2001)
English File, Upper-Intermediate StudentÆs Book
, Oxford University Press.
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BACHELOR OF ARTS
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CONTEMPORARY DANCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN EUROPEAN STUDIES
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN JOURNALISM AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
Catherine.Martin@ul.ie