Dutch: Advanced Language Skills and Fluency II

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

To acquire advanced productive and receptive skills in both speech and writing (B2+ level - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

- follow extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly;

- understand standard spoken language, live or broadcast;

- easily follow complex interactions between third parties in group discussion and debate, even on abstract, complex unfamiliar topics;

- understand spoken language displaying light regional varieties;

- easily summarize lectures, conferences and talks (even on specialized topics) presented by native speakers;

- understand a wide range of journalistic, literary or domain-specific texts;

- appreciate stylistic differences between texts (written or spoken);

- discover the structure of discourse;

- recognize stylistic devices typical of the target language and provide equivalents in his/her mother tongue;

- identify the targeted readership of a text;

- have a good command of a broad lexical repertoire allowing gaps to be readily overcome with circumlocutions and avoidance strategies;

- have a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms;

- make no significant vocabulary errors;

- consistently maintain a high degree of grammatical accuracy; errors are rare;

- be able to vary intonation and place sentence stress correctly in order to express finer shades of meaning;

- use consistent and accurate layout, paragraphing, spelling and punctuation;

- produce clear, smoothly flowing, well-structured speech, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.