School of English - AUTh

Description

This course adopts an all-embracing approach regarding foreign language (FL) learning.

The role of the course instructors is to:

• produce students who feel they are in command of their language use and are able to make decisions that make what they say and write powerful and effective,
• increase students’ awareness of what is involved in learning and using a FL,
• help students find their own motivating factors to use the FL productively,
• improve students’ levels of confidence as they encounter the FL,
• develop students’ awareness and use of learning strategies that work for them as individuals.

To this end, various methodologies, materials, techniques, activities, tasks, games, etc. will be used to involve the students in and imbibe them with this all-embracing, ever-present concept of learning. While it is now generally accepted by educationalists that each student has her/his own relationship with the language she/he is learning, the emphasis of the lessons is to make each student aware of this individual particularity, so that each can work out the best way for them to view, encounter and continue learning the FL.

The instructors will assume that upon entry to the university, students already possess knowledge about the language (structures, grammar, vocabulary, etc.). Their role will be to ensure that the students learn to reflect on their knowledge of the FL and monitor how they use it so that they can perform effectively, both orally and in writing.

During the semester, the instructors will involve the students and invite them to improvise and react spontaneously in language learning situations and in this way increase their alertness to language use.

While much of what will be used in the lessons will be based on descriptive and narrative texts, along with comparing and contrasting, the course will lay the foundations for applying the principles to higher language learning and academic writing.

Corpus is available.

Limit of absences: 5

Assessment: Grades will be awarded on the basis of a system of continuous assessment. In particular:

1. Reading (20% of final grade)
2. Writing (30% of final grade)
3. Speaking/Listening (30% of final grade)
4. Use of English (20% of final grade)

Teaching

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