Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

This module is only open to Modern Languages students (including Combined Honours students and Linguistics students) who are taking Level C or Level D German, as there are some links in content between the two modules.

Aims

In consonance with the overall aims of the degrees offered in the SML, this module will focus on consolidating students' competence in Dutch. It will reinforce students' grammatical and lexical knowledge of the language and their ability to establish and maintain effective social and working relations with speakers of the foreign language.

This is a Dutch language course for students who have passed GER2031 'Beginners' Dutch' or who have done an equivalent beginners' Dutch course elsewhere. It will be divided into two parts:
A) Reading & Writing skills: i.e. Dutch grammar, text comprehension (reading different types of texts and answering questions in Dutch and reading a short Dutch novel;
B) Oral and listening skills (including discussion of the set novel, general conversation and listening exercises).

One hour a week will be given to each part of the course. Part B will be taught by a native speaker of Dutch.

Outline Of Syllabus

Text comprehension (including reading one novel in Dutch), Dutch grammar, composition, general oral work, oral role-plays based on coursebook, listening exercises.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will have had the opportunity to learn about:
1. more complex Dutch grammar
2. a wider range of Dutch vocabulary
3. modern Dutch life and culture

Intended Skill Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will have had the opportunity to:
1. understand spoken Dutch (in oral classes and through listening exercises using audio and video cassettes)
2. understand written Dutch (from a variety of authentic texts, including one short novel)
3. translate English into Dutch
4. write short compositions in Dutch (e.g. letters, summaries)
5. speak Dutch in everyday situations (through role-play)
6. participate in group work on language exercises

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

As this is a language module it is more 'classroom based' than the other optional modules, hence the higher

number of synchronous teaching hours. The teaching will be split into two main parts:

A) Reading and writing skills:reading set novel, grammar, text comprehension, writing (1 hr a week); B) Oral and listening skills (1 hr a week)


THIS COURSE WILL BE TAUGHT AND ASSESSED IN ENGLISH AND DUTCH, DEPENDING ON THE EXERCISE.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

1. In the 120 minute written examination students will answer 3 questions which directly relate to the skills learned during the 'reading and writing skills' part of the course: 1 text comprehension exercise, 1 set of questions on the set novel and 1 set of grammar exercises.
2. The oral exam tests the oral skills practised in the oral classes and the written exam tests the students' comprehension and writing skills, as covered in the writing classes.

Formative coursework: Small practice assignments spaced throughout the year.

General Notes

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