Module: Intermediate English Language Skills 2

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Intermediate English Language Skills 2
Module Code	EN141 (ITS) / ESL1002 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	SALIS
Module Co-ordinator	Fiona Gallagher
Module Teachers	Barra O Seaghdha, Martin Toal
NFQ level	6	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

To develop all language skills; to equip the student to participate effectively in discussions; to widen the students' structural and lexical choices in all settings; to enable students to write appropriately in a variety of contexts. Materials used in this module are mainly pitched at CEFR level B.2

Learning Outcomes

1. Express their views in written form with relative ease and a good degree of accuracy on a range of reasonably familiar and topical issues
2. Use appropriate communicative strategies in oral and written situations.
3. Express themselves orally with relative ease of comprehension and without undue hesitation in a range of familiar contexts.
4. Use effective reading strategies to extract key information from relatively complex texts.
5. Use effective listening strategies to identify key points in extended aural texts of a reasonably complex nature

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	No Description
Assignment Completion	25	No Description
Independent Study	76	No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative Content
Students will examine a range of authentic material for content, language points, register and the grammatical structures used to convey meaning. This material will be the basis for further tasks and activities.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	Language skill evaluations	70%	Sem 2 End
Oral Examination	n/a	30%	Sem 2 End

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Other Resources

None