College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Elementary Persian 2
Module ARA1020 for 2024/5
Module ARA1020 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA1020: Elementary Persian 2
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to enhance your basic reading, writing and communication skills in Persian. It aims to develop all language-related skills, including reading, listening, speaking and writing—plus cultural knowledge—by means of written texts and audio-visual clips. By the end of the module, you are expected to be ready to embark on intermediate-level study of the language
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Extract a broad sense and some specified detail of written texts at CEFRL level A2. 2. Extract a sense and some specified detail of aural communications at CEFRL level A2. 3. Write short and simple texts on selected topics at CEFRL level A2. 4. Verbally elicit, understand and communicate basic factual information and simple selected topics relevant to everyday situations in Persian, displaying reasonable levels of accuracy, at CEFRL level A2. 5. Achieve straightforward translations out of Persian. 6. Demonstrate a sound grasp of the basic grammatical structures of Persian and utilise it to understand and produce texts in it. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 7. Learn how to consolidate your own learning by using available learning aids, in a variety of media, and organise this process with guidance from course tutors. 8. Understand the principles of intensively learning a new language and organise learning time with guidance from course tutors. 9. Use a reference grammar book and a bilingual dictionary to check the structural and lexical accuracy of your writing and expression in Persian. |
Personal and Key Skills | 10. Working in groups at solving basic linguistic tasks. 11. Deploy time management strategies through developing skills of self-study. 12. Exercise autonomy and judgement by developing independent learning skills. 13. Deploy strategies for coping with unpractised linguistic, social and cultural situations. 14. Show further basic appreciation of the cultures of people who speak Persian. |