Course Title: Participate in Basic Oral Communications in the Workplace, in a Character Based Script LOTE

Part A: Course Overview

Course ID: 031303

Program: C2108

Course Title: Participate in Basic Oral Communications in the Workplace, 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)
LANG5245C	City Campus	TAFE	365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng	Face-to-Face	Term1 2007

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 first in a series of  four consecutive units leading to Certificate II 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

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

CBSLOTE2001	Participate in Basic Oral Communications in the Workplace, in a Character
Elements:	1. Introduce oneself, others and exchange personal information orally.
	2. Use courteous oral expressions.
	3. Negotiate an oral transaction for goods, services and information.
	4. Relate a range of information from a short simple conversation between two people.

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.