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Credit points: 12.5 first year.
Prerequisite: All applicants will be required to sit for a selection test to determine their level of language proficiency before they are able to enrol in this subject. Students who are native speakers of English or whose language proficiency is near-native are not eligible to enrol.
Contact: Two one-and-a-half hour language classes.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- demonstrate increased confidence in using language in a range of communicative contexts:
- demonstrate improvement in their reading and written skills in English;
- demonstrate a heightened knowledge of and sensitivity to the English language and to Australian culture;
- show improved interpretative skills.
Content:
This subject focuses on the linguistic and cultural features used in a variety of texts from Australian literature. The subject aims to develop an awareness of how these features work to produce meaning in the texts. Techniques used include summary, paraphrase, cloze, rewriting for another medium or genre, creative writing and text completion.
Assessment:
Continuous assessment of oral and written work of not more than 2,000 words; one text analysis of 1,000 words; one written project of 1,000 words; one ten-minute oral presentation.
Prescribed texts:
1. English as a Sec. Lang., Faculty of Arts (v3, p62) : Next:145-123 | Prev:145-121
2. English as a Sec. Lang., Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p104) : Next:145-123 | Prev:145-121
Credit points: 12.5
Prerequisite: All applicants will be required to sit for a selection test to determine their level of language proficiency before they are able to enrol in this subject. Students who are native speakers of English or whose language proficiency is near-native are not eligible to enrol.
Contact: Two one-and-a-half hour language classes each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- demonstrate increased confidence in using language in a range of communicative contexts:
- demonstrate improvement in their reading and written skills in English;
- demonstrate a heightened knowledge of and sensitivity to the English language and to Australian culture; and
- show improved interpretative skills.
Content:
This subject focuses on the linguistic and cultural features used in a variety of texts from Australian literature. The subject aims to develop an awareness of how these features work to produce meaning in the texts. Techniques used include summary, paraphrase, cloze, rewriting for another medium or genre, creative writing and text completion.
Assessment:
Continuous assessment of oral and written work of not more than 2,000 words; one text analysis of 1,000 words; one written project of 1,000 words; one ten-minute oral presentation.
Prescribed texts:
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2. English as a Sec. Lang., Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p104) : Next:145-123 | Prev:145-121
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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