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ECTS - PWSZ im. Witelona w Legnicy

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The Witelon University of Applied Sciences in Legnica - Field: Pedagogy<br />

<strong>ECTS</strong> Course Catalogue 2010/2011<br />

<strong>ECTS</strong> credits<br />

2<br />

1.Course title<br />

ESOL – Vocabulary Acquisition<br />

2.Course contents<br />

Classes<br />

The course a<strong>im</strong>s at expanding the students’ vocabulary in the area of broadly-conceived Humanities. Source<br />

materials include non-fiction texts, newspaper articles, argumentative essays, causeries, and reviews by<br />

contemporary British and American authors, most of them classics of modern Anglophone expository writing.<br />

The subjects, among others, include the Noble Savage myth, modern Western consumerism and individualism,<br />

socio-political utopias, essentialist and non-essentialists concepts of the human self, the individual versus<br />

society, the man–nature relationship, etc. In class students discuss texts read at home.<br />

3.Prerequisites<br />

3 rd -semester standing<br />

4.Learning outcomes<br />

The students should be able to participate in sophisticated conversations on socio-cultural issues as well as<br />

express their personal opinion on these issues in writing.<br />

5.Recommended reading<br />

1. McCarthy M. & F. O’Dell. (2002). English Vocabulary in Use. Advanced. Cambridge: Cambridge U P.<br />

2. Thomas, B. J. (1989). Advanced Vocabulary and Idiom. London: Nelson.<br />

3. Wellman, G. (1992). Wordbuilder. Oxford: Heinemann.<br />

6.Type of course<br />

Obligatory<br />

7.Teaching team<br />

Department of Pedagogy and Tourism<br />

8.Course structure<br />

Number of hours Semester Year<br />

Lecture<br />

Classes 60 5 3<br />

Laboratory<br />

Project<br />

Seminar<br />

Other<br />

Total student’s<br />

workload<br />

60<br />

9.Assessment methods<br />

Multiple-choice vocabulary tests, reading-comprehension tests, and translation tests. The final grade is the<br />

arithmetic average of all the grades received during the semester.<br />

10.Language of instruction<br />

English<br />

609

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