Module Code - Title:
TE4032
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ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 2 (ADVANCED)
Year Last Offered:
2026/7
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is set at C1 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 C1 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 areas are covered: grammar; future forms, wishes and regrets, defining and non-defining relative clauses, noun clauses, adverb clauses, perfective v progressive aspect, gerunds, infinitives
Lexis: discourse markers, phrasal verbs, collocations, British v American English
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- produce clear, detailed oral descriptions and presentations on complex subjects, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points, and rounding off with appropriate conclusions,
- write clear, well-structured texts of complex subjects, expanding and supporting points of view at some length with subsidiary points, reasons and relevant examples.
- decode and interpret extended speech on abstract and complex topics outside their own field, though may need to confirm occasional details, if accent is unfamiliar; will recognise a wide range of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms, appreciating shifts in register.
- decode and interpret in detail long and complex reading texts, whether or not they relate to their own area of speciality, provided they can re-read difficult sections
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
- relate to and have a cultural appreciation of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
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:
Aspinall T and A Capel (1999)
Advanced Masterclass CAE New Edition
, Oxford University Press.
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
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:
Spring
Module Leader:
Catherine.Martin@ul.ie