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Swahili II

Course
2024-2025

Admission requirements

This course is available for all students who passed Swahili 1.

Description

During this course you will gain more in-depth knowledge of Swahili, grammar wise and vocabulary wise. After a quick revision we will look at different topics like various professions, sport, famous African people, wildlife, climate change, governments in Africa, economics, politics, corruption and some medical vocabulary (body parts and diseases). You will read newspaper articles in Swahili and write and talk about these topics.

Course objectives

This course enables the student to achieve level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).

This course is the second course in a series of three language acquisition courses. The final objective of this course series is to obtain an intermediate level of proficiency in Swahili aimed at communication with people in the region in everyday social situations and enabling students to follow current affairs in the region via various media.

Skill CEFR-level:

  • Reading: B1

  • Writing: A2+

  • Listening: A2

  • Speaking: A2

Timetable

The timetables are avalable through My Timetable.

Mode of instruction

Three lectures per week (total 6 hours)

Assessment method

Weighing

  • Participation: 20%

  • Written exam: 40%

  • Listening exam: 20%

  • Oral exam: 20%

If the End Grade is insufficient there is a possibility of retaking the full 80% of the exams. No resit for the tutorial (participation and homework) is possible.

Inspection and feedback

How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.

Reading list

Course material: ‘Tuongee Kiswahili. A practical Swahili course’ (part 2) by Lowani Afrika Talencentrum. Please contact your teacher to obtain the course material.

Registration

Enrolment through [My Studymap] (https://mijn.universiteitleiden.nl/login?fromUrl=%2F) is mandatory.

Registration Studeren à la carte en Contractonderwijs

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Registration Contractonderwijs.

Not applicable.

Contact

  • For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.

  • For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Reuvensplaats

Remarks

This course uses an integrated communicative language learning approach. Therefore, active participation in the classroom activities is essential for successful learning outcomes.