(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
Level 2 (Year 4)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of Level 2, you will be able to:
1. Understand and communicate key events and ideas in Arabic and Chinese (in written and oral forms), and take
part in everyday conversations (if you started as a beginner in Level 1)
2. Understand and communicate complex events and ideas, and participate in sustained conversations in Arabic and
Chinese (if you started with prior knowledge)
3. Recognise and analyse a range of communicative resources of the target languages: vocabulary, grammar, and
script.
4. Evaluate different viewpoints and practices by engaging with and critiquing the implicit social norms and cultural
values of the cultures and societies where Arabic and Chinese are spoken, and deconstructing stereotypes about
them
5. Demonstrate a wider knowledge of the history, culture, and society of the countries where Arabic and Chinese
are spoken
6. Refine and use effectively the strategies to analyse and contextualise texts from the target cultures conveyed in
written and audio-visual formats (books, films, digital media content)
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Search for, evaluate and use appropriate and relevant information sources to help strengthen the quality of
academic work and independent research
2. Interpret and present other people's ideas and synthesise them to support opinion, argument and theories
knowing when, why and how to acknowledge someone else´s work or ideas
3. Critically assess and construct sustained arguments supported by evidence and reasoning
4. Communicate effectively information and knowledge in written and oral forms or through digital media
5. Evaluate, experiment with, and use effectively a range of digital resources and tools to collect and
communicate information and knowledge
6. Explore connections across perspectives and disciplinary boundaries 7. Demonstrate the ability to meet deadlines and work collaboratively on team projects
Competence Standards
1. Show critical reflection and critical judgement
2. Reflect on progress and areas requiring further development
3. Understand and communicate events and ideas in the target languages (if you started as a beginner in Level 1)
4. Understand and communicate complex events and ideas in the target languages (if you started with prior knowledge)
5. Identify, explore, and use a range of sources of information and knowledge
6. Investigate the history, society, culture and societies of the countries where the target languages are used
7. Analyse and evaluate texts from the target cultures
Students will have had the opportunity to practise as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills related to the subject area(s) studied, valuable for employment, eg. be able to gather and analyse information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources, be able to use IT effectively both as a means of communication and as an aid to learning;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- the ability to appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners.
You will be working towards the subject specific and skills learning outcomes by engaging with a variety of approaches to assessment, which will depend on the programme, language pathway, and modules that you will take. At Level 2, assessment methods will typically include coursework in English (essays, commentaries) and the target language (short assignments collected in portfolios), individual or group oral presentations in English or the target language, exams in the target language that might include elements of English (for example, translation tasks), group projects, the production of podcasts and other digital artefacts
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