Course Title: Access routine services, in the target country, in a character based script LOTE

Part A: Course Overview

Course ID: 031312

Program: C3117

Course Title: Access routine services, in the target country, in a character based script LOTE

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 60.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LANG5254C

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Face-to-Face

Course Contact: Chinese: Ms. Xiaowen Fan Japanese: Ms. Barbara White

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 2328

Course Contact Email: Chinese: xiaowen.fan@rmit.edu.au Japanese: barbara.white@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

This course is the second in a series of four consecutive units leading to Certificate III in Applied Language. Through closed and then open-ended learning activities you will establish a basis for development of communicative skills in the spoken and written language, emphasizing the former, and practical knowledge of the culture, in a wider range of personal and social situations and contexts. Student-centred drilling, practical and communicative activities and tasks encourage you to be responsible for your own learning, to be creative and critical in your application of knowledge of the language to communication with people of a different cultural tradition, and to build on your knowledge and interest to a level where learning can continue in daily life.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Certificate II or equivalent to 240 hours



National Competency Codes and Titles

CBSLOTE3002

Access routine services, in the target country, in a character based script LOTE

Elements:

1. Obtain information through a telephone inquiry.
2. Negotiate a routine, problematic spoken exchange
3. Respond to routine oral instructions.
4. Relate a range of information from an oral presentation.
5. Relate a range of information from written procedural text.
6. Write a note or message.



Learning Outcomes

This will vary for Chinese and Japanese. Students will be given more detailed information in class.


Overview of Assessment

Your language skills will be assessed using speaking tasks, listening tasks, reading tasks, script tests and short written assignments. The final semester result is obtained by combining the results of all progressive assessment tasks (this includes class based tasks as well as tasks completed outside of class) with the semester examination. Both progressive assessment and semester exams cover the learning outcomes as described above.