A course for Independent Users of English

This course is designed for students who are already able to interact with a degree of fluency in English in social and conversational contexts and who can generally understand the main ideas when listening to or reading longer, complex texts on a wide range of topics. The course thus aims at enabling students to develop their ability to use English in more formal, academic contexts. In the course, students are introduced to vocabulary learning strategies to enable them to extend their range of general academic vocabulary as well as for terminology specific to their own academic discipline. Students also have practice in using language learning strategies to help them gain a more detailed understanding of longer academic texts. Throughout the course, students work on their ability to incorporate more complex grammatical structures into both speech and writing in order to connect ideas more smoothly and coherently. By the end of the course, students should be able to express themselves more confidently and clearly when interacting in English at university.

A course for Proficient Users of English

This course is designed for students who can already follow media and social media content with ease and who can express themselves fluently and spontaneously when interacting in English, particularly in more informal, social settings. This course thus aims at strengthening students’ ability to adjust their communication style to better suit the expectations of an academic audience/readership. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to further extend their academic vocabulary range to enable them to express ideas with more variety and precision. Students work on their ability to produce smooth flowing, well-structured speech on complex topics, including topics relevant to their academic discipline. Students also work on their ability to write a well-organised, coherent text, using a variety of cohesive devices and organisational patterns. By the end of the course, students should be able to draw on a wide range of grammatical and lexical resources to communicate complex ideas in speech and writing, flexibly, effectively, and appropriately.

A course for students who have successfully completed the introductory course

This course is available to students who have successfully completed the Introduction Course either at B2 or C1 level. Having acquired an understanding of academic register, general academic vocabulary, and some subject specific vocabulary, this extension course aims at strengthening students’ ability to produce a wider range of written academic text types. Extensive peer feedback and tutor feedback on writing drafts serve to raise students’ awareness of their individual strengths and weaknesses in writing in this mixed ability group and to address these accordingly. Students also engage intensively in small interdisciplinary groups in which they present and discuss a range of complex topics from subject-specific perspectives based on self-selected readings. Mixed ability interdisciplinary group work requires students to adapt their communication style to their peers’ needs, interests, and language proficiency levels; this is an essential transferrable skill for interdisciplinary project work. In this course, students are encouraged to reflect on the quality of their language production and interaction as means of strengthening their language learning strategies, thereby supporting learner autonomy. By the end of this course, students should be more able to use English at university flexibly, effectively, and precisely, confidently adjusting their language so that it suits the communicative context.

Modul	Vorkenntnisse	Zugangsvoraussetzungen	Workload*
Upper intermediate English 1 for academic professions	Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache im Bereich B2 GER	ABV-Einstufungstest am Sprachenzentrum	4 SWS / 5 LP
Upper intermediate English 2 for academic professions	Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache im Bereich B2-C1.1 GER	Erfolgreiche Absovierung des Moduls „Upper intermediate English 1 for academic professions“	4 SWS / 5 LP
Advanced English 1a for academic professions	Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache im Bereich C1.1 GER	ABV-Einstufungstest am Sprachenzentrum	4 SWS / 5 LP
Advanced English 2 for academic professions	Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache im Bereich C1.1-C1.2 GER	Erfolgreiche Absolvierung des Moduls „Advanced English 1a for academic professions“	4 SWS / 5 LP

*Workload:
SWS = Semesterwochenstunden
LP = Leistungspunkte

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