Universität Wien

340142 UE Listening Competence and Text Production: English (2008W)

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

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 10.10. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 17.10. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 24.10. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 31.10. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 07.11. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 14.11. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 21.11. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 28.11. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 12.12. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 19.12. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 09.01. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 16.01. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 23.01. 13:00 - 14:30 Hörsaal 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 1.OG
  • Friday 30.01. 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) Satisfactory completion of homework tasks.
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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