Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description The module aims to help students to achieve high competences in listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition to the subject knowledge, the students’ learning skills and analytical skills are further developed through different learning tasks and assignments. The module is conducted through the target language. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Demonstrate an understanding of standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on familiar topics normally encountered in personal, social, academic or vocational life. 2. Keep up with conversation with native speakers clearly and politely in a formal or informal register, appropriate to the situation and person(s) concerned. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of specialised articles outside his/her field, provided he/she can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm his/her interpretation of terminology. 4. Demonstrate good grammatical control. Occasional ‘slips’ or non-systematic errors and minor flaws in sentence structure may still occur, but they are rare and can often be corrected in retrospect. 5. Produce clear, detailed descriptions of real or imaginary events and experiences, marking the relationship between ideas in clearly connected text and developing an argument systematically with appropriate highlighting of significant points and relevant supporting detail. 6. Summarise a wide range of factual and imaginative texts, movies and news on a familiar or less familiar subject. 7. Comprehend certain commonly used expressions and phrases in classical Chinese language. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Listening & readingStudents will attend lectures and use master textbook and other learning materials, including online aural and visual resources.SpeakingStudents will engage in a variety of activities, such as analysing news reports, debating, role plays, personal presentations etc.WritingStudents will complete writing compositions relevant to their learning content.Independent learningStudents will engage in structured and supported independent learning activities both orally and in writing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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