121110 UE Integrated Language and Study Skills 1 (2024S)

Content:
ILSS 1 and ILSS 2 focus on integrated language skills, independent study skills, vocabulary development, and grammar of selected areas (in connection with text-based work). Students will work on text comprehension (reading, listening, summarizing, and synthesizing of information), analysis of the structure and development of descriptive, expository, and argumentative texts, and the production of well-organized and stylistically appropriate argumentative essays.

Aims:
- to develop writing skills in order to produce coherent, cohesive, and focused texts required in an academic and professional environment
- to be able to formulate a claim and support it with evidence
- to develop high-level reading skills in order to cope with a range of formal texts
- to develop independent study habits
- to identify and address deficiencies in students' language competence
Students will be equipped to meet the language demands of their courses in literature, linguistics, and cultural studies.

Methods:
Communicative language practice, developing skills of and strategies for processing and producing texts