Universität Wien

340032 UE Listening Competence and Text Production: English (2009S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 34 - Translationswissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Friday 13.03. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 20.03. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 27.03. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 03.04. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 24.04. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 08.05. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 15.05. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 22.05. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 29.05. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 05.06. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 12.06. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 19.06. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
Friday 26.06. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Practice of various "micro" listening skills: listening for gist (general meaning), listening for specific information, coping with unknown vocabulary, understanding "hidden" or implied meaning, as well as practice at note-taking, summarising, extrapolating information.

Assessment and permitted materials

There will be three elements of assessment:
1) Participation in class. Successful candidates must be judged to have been active and constructive participants in class.
2) A mid-term assessment of listening comprehension skills.
3) An assessment of listening comprehension and analysis skills at the end of the semester.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To improve students' confidence and efficiency with their listening, to help them cope with difficult or unknown vocabulary, to expsoe them to several different types of listening texts and several different English accents and registers.

Examination topics

Students will be presented with different types of authentic listening texts, and through performing a variety of tasks based on those texts, will be able to analyse and comprehend them. Students will also be expected to listen regularly to English language discourse outside class. There will be several homework assignments in which students will be expected to listen to and analyse such discourse.

Reading list


Association in the course directory

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