LANG0920-2

Duration

45h Th

Number of credits

	Bachelor in psychology and education : speech and language therapy	5 crédits
	Bachelor in psychology and education : general	5 crédits

Lecturer

Daphné Bui, Jérôme Gaillard, ISLV, Nathalie Schraepen

Coordinator

Daphné Bui

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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/B2), reading (B1/B2), speaking (B1/B2), lecturing (B1/B2), writing (B1/B2). However, only reading comprehension skills (as well as vocabulary and grammar, which are necessary for reading comprehension) will be evaluated in the final exam.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

As this is a B1/B2-level course, at the end of the year, we would expect our students to be able to:

understand the main points of a speech or conversation or of radio or television programmes on current events, or topics of personal or professional interest, as long as the language is clear and standard.

understand articles about contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular viewpoints as well as the description of events, feelings and wishes.

communicate with a degree of fluency on topics that are familiar or of personal or professional interest and present and defend their point of view.

write simple and clear connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal or professional interest, describe experiences and events, explain the advantages and disadvantages of various options and give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

This course is not a beginners' course. It is an intermediate-level English course that corresponds to Council of Europe level B1/B2. Therefore the level required for this course is a good basic knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary (equivalent to the A2-B1 level of the CEFR).
This course can be complemented by an evening class or an @lter course. For more information go to www.islv.ulg.ac.be.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

This class uses a dynamic, interactive and efficient approach to learning English for psychology and is based on psychology-related texts (ISLV Level-A coursebook) and an English grammar book (Murphy, CUP). In class a variety of activities enable the presentation, assimilation and practice of the language material from the books, such as powerpoint presentations, role-plays based on case studies, debates and listening comprehension exercises.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Weekly 2-hour (45 hours in total) class in groups of about 30 students.
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 introduced in the first-year refresher course and introduction of new elements. Interactive grammar tests will be organised every week 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.

Assessment methods and criteria

1° Attendance and active participation are extremely important.
The speaking, writing, listening, reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar exercises as well as the regular in-class practice grammar tests corrected in class and the other online exercises will prepare the students for the grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises included in the written exam.
2° Written exam (20 marks)

January exam* (4 marks) = exercises on the vocabulary and grammar studied in the first term.
June/August exam (16 marks) = reading comprehension exercises based on an unseen text and on the texts from the readings file + exercises on the grammar & vocabulary studied in the second term.

*N.B. The January and May/June exams are compulsory. During the second session of exams in August, the students who did not obtain at least 10/20 for their final mark will have to retake the part(s) (Q1 or Q2) for which they got less than 10/20 and they will be exempted from the part they passed. Note that exemptions are not valid from one year to the next.
The pass mark is at least 10/20. Marks between 9.5 and 10 will not be rounded up.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Ms N. Schraepen, ISLV, English Teacher and Coordinator for English Courses at the Faculty of Psychology and Education, N.Schraepen@ulg.ac.be
Ms D. Bui, ISLV, English Teacher, daphne.bui@ulg.ac.be
Mr J. Gaillard, ISLV, English Teacher, jgaillard@ulg.ac.be

English (Level A)