Course Title
English Language Level 103
Course Code
ELI 103
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of ELI 102 or an Oxford Online Placement Test score corresponding to elementary proficiency level.
Credits
There are two credits for this course. Successful completion of ELI 103 is the prerequisite for taking ELI 104. Successful completion of ELI 103 and ELI 104 gives students the necessary credits to meet the Foundation Year English requirement.
Course Description
ELI 103 is a pre-intermediate level course aiming to build and further improve language proficiency at A2 Way-stage level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), moving into the B1 Threshold Level on the CEFR. It is a seven-week module course with 18 hours of instruction each week.
Course Goal
The course aims at helping learners to achieve an overall English language proficiency leading to beginner Independent User of language defined as low B1 level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), developing conversational skills, expressing ideas, and helping learners deal with problems and situations where they meet unpredictable language.
Course Objectives
The course is intended to accomplish its goal in one full academic module of seven weeks through developing students’ language skills to:
- Read and understand the main ideas of a variety of texts*. (READING)
- Understand the main points and straightforward factual details on a range of familiar matters given in clear and relatively slow speech. (LISTENING COMPREHENSION)
- Have conversations, express personal opinions and exchange information on familiar topics. (SPEAKING)
- Produce short connected texts divided into paragraphs on familiar topics using appropriate vocabulary** in an adequately developed response. (WRITING)
- Demonstrate control of a limited range of vocabulary** and grammatical structures with minor inconsistencies. (USE OF ENGLISH)
* Medium-length texts of 250-500 words in frequently used grammatical structures at this level.
** vocabulary from the word lists for units 3-11
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) are descriptions of what students will know or be able to do with the language as a result of instruction. A student learning outcome is written in terms of observable and measurable language skills. The table below lists the SLOs according to their Macro skills.
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