Description
Learning new words doesn’t automatically lead to using them in daily life. TV3 urges people to thematically and systematically use vocabulary regarding the world around us. Students more or less run the course, while the tutor observes and gives the students the opportunity to produce language items and stimulate other students to do the same. Students receive extensive personal feedback during the course. The main criterion in the course is active vocabulary, while students are assumed to have acquired pronunciation and grammar satisfactorily already. These two skills will also be graded. Finally, presentation skills will be practised and evaluated.
Teaching method
One hour seminar per week.
Course objectives
awareness of your own and other people’s language use
activating the passive vocabulary that was acquired during the first year
increasing vocabulary
presentation skills
grammar and pronunciation
Required reading
- Pauwels, Paul et al. Working Word At Ease. Deurne: Wolters Plantyn, 2004.
Test method
Presentations (80%)
Homework assignments (20%)
Possibility of an oral exam when the student has not met the attendance requirement or received an insufficient average grade for the presentations and homework tasks.
Time table
The timetable will be available from June 1st on the Internet.
Information
English Department, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 102c. Phone: 071 527 2144, or by mail: English@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Registration
Students can register through U-twist before 15 July. After 15 July students can only register through the Departmental Office.
Blackboard
Students need to enroll in Blackboard to have access to important information such as deadlines, homework assignments, and grades.