Postgraduate Courses

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• 1.
  Use more accurate pronunciation and more appropriate features of connected speech for effective communication.
• 2.
  Express views about academic and social topics with more appropriate topic development and coherence.
• 3.
  Show progress in their skills in listening for features in English texts to improve their own development of speaking skills.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Make effective presentations, and be able to evaluate their fellow classmates’ presentation skills.
• 2.
  Participate effectively in and conduct seminar discussions.
• 3.
  Develop strategies for effective listening and speaking in academic contexts.
• 4.
  Develop strategies for writing accurately in academic contexts.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Write a range of academic texts demonstrating appropriate control of syntaz.
• 2.
  Recognize and produce the essential features of different written genres, including critical reviews, summaries and abstracts.
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  Distinguish clearly between facts and opinions and extract salient points in written texts.
• 4.
  Develop written arguments with reference to different sources.
• 5.
  Demonstrate critical awareness of accuracy in written English, including texts written by peers.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the common genres of academic writing, including abstract, literature review, argument essay and research article.
• 2.
  Identify the common referencing format and referencing skills, including quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing.
• 3.
  Describe how academic texts are structured and how various devices are used for improving the coherence and cohesion of academic writing.
• 4.
  Recognize how hedging and qualifying language strengthens and weakens arguments and common fallacies in academic writing.
• 5.
  Explain the importance of identifying purposes and audience before writing, which affects the writing style and tone.
• 6.
  Distinguish specific language and vocabulary for academic writing.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Pronounce and produce words or sentences with a fair degree of accuracy.
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  Achieve communicative tasks relevant to business contexts in relatively simple terms.
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  Understand simple, familiar, brief and clear discourse related to personal or everyday life.
• 4.
  Produce simple sentence structures, provide descriptions, and exchange some ideas on familiar and common topics.
• 5.
  Develop confidence and interest in learning the Chinese language.
• 6.
  Gain basic Chinese cultural knowledge and acquire a degree of cultural awareness.
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  Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of concrete needs of business professionals.
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  Introduce themselves and others and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where they live, people they know and things they have.
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  Interact in a simple way provided the interlocutor talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Understand, make, and respond appropriately to everyday conversational enquiries.
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  Understand basic instructions, notices or information.
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  Take part in a basic factual conversation.
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  Understand short reports or descriptions.
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  Take and pass on simple messages.
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  Make factual summaries and requests based on notes taken, including times, dates and places.
• 7.
  Understand and give straightforward opinions and explanations.
• 8.
  Understand and produce short texts relating to people's lives and interests.
• 9.
  Demonstrate sufficiently accurate pronunciation and grammatical structure to be understood by native speakers of Spanish.
• 10.
  Show confidence when dealing with Spanish-speaking people and Spanish-language materials in their study and in business contexts.