Module: Intermediate English Language Skills 2

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Intermediate English Language Skills 2
Module Code	ESL1002 (ITS: EN141)
Faculty	SALIS	School	Humanities & Social Sciences
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5

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

Section Breakdown
CRN	20434	Part of Term	Semester 2
Coursework	0%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	Y
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Fiona Gallagher	Module Teacher	Barra O Seaghdha, Martin Toal

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment 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; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

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.

Indicative Reading List

Books:
None

Articles:
None

Other Resources

None