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| LANG0041-1 | English (Level A+)
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | ISLV, Nathalie Schraepen |
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| Coordinator : | Nathalie Schraepen |
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| Language : | English language |
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| Course contents : | Oral and written activities based on texts and audio and/or video recordings dealing with psychology. Students will be required to participate actively in class, which implies that they must have prepared some assignments before coming to class.
The main language skills will be practised through discussing psychology-related topics. Here is the detail of the CEFRL levels of the course : listening (B1), reading (B1), speaking (B1), lecturing (B1), writing (B1) |
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| Course objective : | - Communicating in English about themes connected to the fields of psychology.
- Activating listening and reading strategies such as skimming, scanning, detecting text coherence
- Developing the skills needed to make a good presentation and oral skills in general.
- Expanding the vocabulary related to the fields of psychology
- Revising and consolidating students' grammatical knowledge.
- Producing clear, detailed text (e.g. short reports, summaries and e-mails) on subjects related to psychology. |
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| Prerequisites : | Good basic knowledge of English (equivalent to the A2-B1-level of the CEFR). |
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| Organization : | Weekly 2-hour class in average-sized groups
Thorough preparation of the given assignments is key to students' progress. Here is an overview of the different tasks students will need to perform:
1° Focus on some grammar points that were touched on in the first-year refresher course and introduction of new elements. A few grammar tests will be organised to assess students' assimilation of the grammar rules.
2° Communicative teaching/learning entails interacting a lot. This means that students are expected to participate actively in in-class discussions. And this is only possible if students prepare classes by doing some homework. |
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| Written notes : |
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Level-A English Course in BAC 1 advanced level FAPSE;
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Text File for Psychology Students - Level-A Course (Readings file for the written exam); available at Intercopy from September 16th 2010.
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Grammaire Anglaise de Base (ISLV), available at the Editions ULg and the "Point de Vue" (ST) from October 2010.
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| Assessment : | 1° Attendance and active participation are extremely important and will be taken into account in the final mark. They will be marked out of 2 (bonus mark) that will be added the final mark out of 20:
- One mark will be awarded to students who attend at least 75% of all classes AND take part actively in the different activities. In other words, students who are just 'physically present', but fail to get involved in the course will NOT get the mark.
- Finally one mark will go to the four in-class grammar tests.
2° The written exam will be based on one or several unseen texts, on all the chapters of the coursebook as well as on all the texts from the readings file. It will assess students' reading skills and vocabulary. The written exam will count for 20 marks.
NB: There might be a few differences between the exam aimed at BAC 1 students who are part of the "advanced" level group and the exam aimed at BAC 2 students for whom this course is the follow-up of the Remedial English Course. |
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| Contacts : | BAC1 Level A:
Ms N. Schraepen, ISLV, English Teacher and Coordinator for English Courses at the Faculty of Psychology and Education, N.Schraepen@ulg.ac.be
Mr. J. Stevens, ISLV, Chargé d'enseignement, Julien.Stevens@ulg.ac.be |
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