Mandarin 3B
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| MLAC3009 | Media, Languages and Cultures | 3 | 20 | Spring Malaysia |
- Code
- MLAC3009
- School
- Media, Languages and Cultures
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring Malaysia
Summary
This module builds on the language acquired in 3A to extend further the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing by gathering and processing information accurately and effectively through discussion based on multimodal resources. In addition, students are required to undertake a programme of autonomous learning.
Target Students
Third year students who are doing this module as a compulsory element of their degree. 20-credit and 10-credit are combined and both groups of students will be taught the same in this module. Priority of seats will be given to students doing the module as a compulsory element of their degree, thus there is a limited number of places for 10-credit students on this module.
Co-requisites
Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:
Classes
- One 3-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 30% In Class Test: In class tests - 2 times, Listening, Language in Use (30 mins per test)
- 30% Speaking Task: Group Speaking Task (Q&A)
- 40% Written Exam: Language in Use, and Essay Writing (SPR semester) (1 hour)
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
The overall aim of the module is to consolidate and extend students' competence in the four skills of speaking, reading, listening and writing in the target language. Special emphasis will be put on developing more sophisticated oral and written skills, enabling students to deal proficiently and accurately with real-life situations (such as information-retrieval from written and spoken sources and report writing in the target language). Additional skills taught this semester include letter- and CV writing.Learning Outcomes
a) Knowledge and understanding:
Students will extend their familiarity with the target language structure at Advanced level. They will further develop the following skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing in the target language with confidence, fluency, accuracy and sophistication.
b) Intellectual skills:
On completing the module, students should be able to manipulate the language using the further skills they have acquired in speaking, reading, listening and writing in the target language, together with grammatical structures at the Advanced level.
c) Professional/practical skills:
Students will acquire further skills necessary to cover topics both orally and in written form in the target language at a sophisticated level, and to use the telephone for information retrieval.
d) Transferable skills:
Use of IT resources; use of dictionaries; pair and group work; independent work; presentation and interaction; essay writing; construction of coherent argument; summary writing; time-management; cultural and inter-cultural awareness.
Conveners
- Kwan Hwee Ling