ML5001 - Unilang - Languages for all - Level 5 Placeholder

You will be taught in weekly workshops and are also expected to complete work through tutor-guided study outside the classroom.

You will be supported by the module tutors who can be contacted in class, by email and in their regular tutorial slots. Support materials specific to the individual language and stages are also provided via Blackboard.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. You will be expected to develop knowledge and understanding of vocabulary and grammatical structures


Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
2. You will be expected to communicate effectively and show awareness of appropriate registers
3. To develop strategies to manage your own learning

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
4. You will be expected to engage sensitively with different cultural audiences

Formative: You will receive informal feedback week on week verbally or in writing.

Summative:

• Participation in class-based activities throughout the year, weighted at 10% [MLO 1-4]
• Reading/writing examination, semester 1, weighted 20%, [MLO 1, 2]
• Listening comprehension, class-test in semester 2, weighted 20% [MLO 1, 2]
• Reading/writing examination in semester 2, weighted 20% [MLO 1, 2]
• Oral examination, semester 2, weighted 25%, [MLO 1, 2]

Feedback on summative assessments will be provided within the standard 20 working days.

Prior knowledge of the chosen language for the higher (not beginner) stages.

Module must be attended across both semesters

Unilang offers the opportunity to study a language across University as a 20-credit module as part of the programme of study. Languages offered include French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Mandarin from stage 1 (no previous knowledge) to stage 5 (advanced for specific languages). British Sign Language is also available. The modules focus on learning, developing and practising the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Learning a foreign language introduces you to the country and its culture encouraging and supporting international mobility, enhancing employability at home and abroad as well as improving communication and cultural awareness. At the higher stages you are also encouraged to access foreign sources. When you are seeking employment at the end of your academic programme, communicative competence in a modern foreign language may well provide you with an advantage since:
• The speaking, listening and written language skills you will have developed are transferable to a wide range of working environments.
• The use of the foreign language enhances communication skills, in the foreign language as well as in English.
• Your employability will have progressed as you made transitions at each stage of Unilang Option.
• Foreign language competence and cultural awareness will be an asset in the UK’s increasingly multi-cultural and inclusive society.
• The open economy of the UK will provide you with job opportunities for working either in organisations based in the UK but with international links, or in foreign organisations located in the UK and having establishments outside the UK.
Complementing your main subject area with Unilang will open up job opportunities and potential career paths at home and abroad.

The modules are delivered through workshops/seminar every week. Supporting materials for class work and directed learning are distributed in class and/or Blackboard. Assessment at the end of each semester is by portfolio comprising participation in class-based activities (speaking and listening) and a written test assessing grammatical knowledge, reading and writing skills. Level 5 students going abroad in semester 2 will be asked to submit their portfolio electronically.