Advanced English language skills I

Teacher(s)

Bulon Amélie (compensates Meunier Fanny); De Cock Sylvie; Dupont Maïté (compensates De Cock Sylvie); Meunier Fanny;

Language

English

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Content

In order to achieve the objectives of the course, the participants will be faced to a wide range of audio-visual, written and oral material about both familiar and unfamiliar topics belonging to personal, social, cultural, professional and academic everyday life.

Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Lectures and exercise sessions.
Self-study: Gairns, R. and Redman, S. (2008) Oxford Word Skills (Advanced). Oxord University Press.
The lectures and exercise sessions are given face to face (or online via Teams or using dual mode teaching if face to face teaching is not possible in case of a health crisis for example).

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Certificate evaluation. Exam in June: five main parts:

• Oral production (with and without interaction; conversation and pronunciation):  20% of the final mark
• Written production: 20% of the final mark
• Listening comprehension: 20% of the final mark
• Leading comprehension: 20% of the final mark
• Focus on forms/accuracy (vocabulary, error detection and correction, grammar exercises): 20% of the final mark
• Students who get a grade lower than 8/20 for one of the five parts of the exam  (oral production, written production, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, focus on forms/accuracy) will fail the course overall (7/20 or less if the mean is lower).

Continuous assessment:

• active participation in the conversation classes and short group presentations followed by debates during the academic year
• protfolio of written assignments: five individual assignments and one group assignment will be set throughout the year (3 written assignments per term). 
• exemption vocabulary test during the January session (exemption: 10/20): one third of the final mark for the 'focus on forms' part of the written exam in June.

Students who have to resit the June exam (September session) need to redo the exam parts for which they did not get 10/20 in June (oral production, written production, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, focus on forms/accuracy). 
Words of caution

• At the end of the academic year, some parts of the exam will take place before the offical exam session. No 'catch-up' session will be organized for these parts.  
• Students who do not hand in the written assignments of the portfolio on time or who do not give the group presentation will be penalised: one mark per missing assignment will be deducted from the final grade for the written production part of the course and/or five marks will be deducted from the final grade for the oral production part (no presentation).

Online resources

Moodle

Bibliography

• Course notes and teaching material on Moodle. Please bring them to class (paper or electronic version).
• Exercices et documents de travail sur Moodle (plateforme e-learning)
• Gairns, R. & Redman, S. (2008) Oxford Word Skills (Advanced).  Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with CD-ROM).

Teaching materials

• Course notes and teaching material on Moodle
• Gairns, R. & Redman, S. (2008) Oxford Word Skills (advanced). Oxford University Press.

Faculty or entity

ELAL