(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
On successful completion of Level 2, you will be able to:
1. Understand and communicate key events and ideas in Arabic and Russian (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 Russian (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 Russian are spoken, and deconstructing stereotypes about them
5. Demonstrate a wider knowledge of the history, culture, and society of the countries where Arabic and Russian 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
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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