Module manager: Adcharawan Seeger
Email: a.seeger@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
EAST2704 or equivalent
| EAST2704 | Intermediate Thai 1 |
This module is approved as a discovery module
The module will be conducted in Thai. Students will engage with and discuss academic texts, articles from Thai newspapers and magazines, and Thai-language documentary programmes. Additionally, the module will include extensive exercises in conversation, comprehension, and composition.
This module aims to further enhance students’ linguistic proficiency in the Thai language, building upon and extending the knowledge and skills acquired in the module EAST2704. It seeks to deepen students’ understanding of Thai culture, history, and society. These objectives will be achieved through intensive language classes, where all four language skills—reading, composition, listening comprehension, and writing—will be practiced at an advanced intermediate level. The module will employ a diverse range of materials, including newspapers, academic texts, videos, and other online resources.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1- Communicate complex ideas fluently and effectively in both oral and written forms in the Thai language at an advanced intermediate level, utilising digital resources and tools
2- Read and comprehend Thai newspapers, books, documents, and other written materials at an advanced intermediate level.
3- Demonstrate a consolidated and extended understanding of complex Thai language structures.
4- Demonstrate a detailed and insightful awareness and understanding of Thai social, cultural, political, and developmental situations.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5- An awareness and understanding of one or more cultures and societies other than their own.
6- Advanced synthetic skills of organisation and management of learning.
The module will be conducted primarily in Thai. It will include reading and discussing articles from Thai newspapers and magazines, as well as observing Thai-language documentary programmes. Additionally, it will involve extensive exercises in conversation, comprehension, and composition.
The vocabulary in most classes will focus on Thai politics and development. Students will further develop their translation skills from and into Thai, building on the foundation established in EAST2704.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Practical | 55 | 1 | 55 |
| Private study hours | 145 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 55 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students will have the opportunity to receive individualised formative feedback on their understanding and academic progress during module contact hours. Students will receive written and oral feedback on their in-course assessments. Students will receive formative feedback on written homework tasks. Additionally, students are encouraged to visit the module tutors’ office hours for further feedback on their academic performance and progress. Monitoring and feedback are provided through regular weekly written exercises, class engagement and performance, and periodic aural tests.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | In-course assessment | 20 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 20 | |
The resit format requires students to submit a five-minute podcast in the Thai language via Minerva: students must present on a topic covered during the course of the module.
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 50 |
| Practical Exam / OSCE | 0.0 Hrs 20 Mins | 30 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 80 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 07/05/2025
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