Course Title: Communicate routinely, with people in the community, in a character based script LOTE

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2007

Course Code: LANG5253C

Course ID: 031311

Course Title: Communicate routinely, with people in the community, in a character based script LOTE

School: 365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Program Code: C3117 - Certificate III in Applied Language

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

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 60

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.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

Certificate II or equivalent to 240 hours

Course Description

This course is the first 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.

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	CBSLOTE3001 Communicate routinely, with people in the community, in a character based script LOTE
Element:	1. Use the telephone to obtain and give information. 2. Negotiate a routine, problematic spoken exchange. 3. Ask for and give directions orally. 4. Relate a range of information from a short routine conversation between two native or native- like speakers. 5. Relate a range of information from a written information text. 6. Write a sequence of instructions.
Performance Criteria:	Element 1: • Greetings and closings are communicated. • The caller identifies herself/himself. • The purpose for calling is stated. • A range of information is requested, as required. • A range of information is provided as required. • Grammatical or pronunciation errors may occur but do not interfere with meaning or dominate text. • Social and cultural conventions are identified and observed, verbally and non-verbally, to support communication as required. • Repetition or clarification is sought or given, as required, and elicits an appropriate response. Element 2: • Opening and closing strategies are communicated, verbally, in a range of contexts. • Reasons/arguments are substantiated as required, verbally, in a range of contexts. • Information, product or service is requested, as required, verbally, in a range of contexts. • Information, product or service is provided as required, verbally, in a range of contexts. • Modes of formality are used, verbally, as required, in a range of contexts. • Strategies are used for satisfying difficult customers. • Strategies are used for satisfying customer complaints. • Interrogative structures are used, verbally as required in a range of contexts. • Meaning is conveyed accurately. • Grammatical or pronunciation errors may occur but do not interfere with meaning or dominate text. • Social and cultural conventions are identified and observed, verbally and non-verbally, to support communication, as required. • Requests for repetition or clarification are responded to appropriately, as required. Element 3: • Attention is gained to ask for directions, verbally, in a range of contexts. • Directions are asked for, verbally, in a range of contexts. • Directions are given, verbally, in a range of contexts. • Meaning is conveyed accurately. • Grammatical or pronunciation errors may occur but do not interfere with meaning or dominate text. • Social and cultural conventions are identified and observed, verbally and non-verbally, to support communication as required. • Repetition or clarification is sought or given as required and elicits an appropriate response. Element 4: • Main points are identified, in a range of contexts. • Specific information, which elaborates on main points, is identified, in a range of contexts. • The meaning of key vocabulary is identified. • Meaning is conveyed accurately. Element 5: • Main points are identified, in a range of contexts. • Specific information, which elaborates on main points, is identified, in a range of contexts. • The meaning of key vocabulary is identified. • Meaning is conveyed accurately. Element 6: .• Written instructions are sequenced to assist reader, in a range of contexts. • Sequence is signalled linguistically, symbolically or numerically as required. • Meaning is conveyed accurately. • Grammatical errors may occur but do not interfere with meaning or dominate text. • Social and cultural conventions are identified and observed, to support communication as required.

Learning Outcomes

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

Overview of Learning Activities

Details of Learning Activities

Class time is devoted to a variety of activities at introducing, drilling, practising, consolidating and developing aspects of language which are then available to you to use communicatively. This process includes presentation of new language through explanation, video and audio material and text;mechanical oral and written exercises and drills, leading to creative oral and written tasks, aim to give you practice in adapting and using the introduced language for your own communicative purposes.

Much of the rote learning work necessary to language learning is assigned as homework. Your active participation in the course, by means of regular preparation of class topics and revision, wider reading about the country and culture, and seeking out own opportunities to practise, is necessary if successful learning is to take place.

Classes provide most of the limited opportunities you have to use newly-learnt language. Attendance at all classes is therefore essential.

Teaching Schedule

New language is presented regularly through model dialogues, videos and supplementary material. You will practise structure and expression through mechanical spoken and written exercises, after which communicative competence is developed by performing more integrated communicative tasks as a class and in groups and pairs.

For real progress towards communicative competence you should familiarize yourselves with main dialogues before their introduction in class, and revise the dialogues and work on text book exercises and rote memorization of forms and vocabulary after each class. It is expected that you will be prepared for each class by having revised relevant work and completed appropriate homework tasks.

An assessed written, listening, or reading task is conducted regularly. At the end of each unit you are able to demonstrate your competence in the language covered by performing an assessed speaking task.

The weekly teaching schedule will vary for Chinese and Japanese. Students will be given more detailed information in class.

Overview of Learning Resources

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

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

References

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

Other Resources

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.

Assessment Tasks

Progressive Assessment 50%
The Progessive assessment consists of a combination of script tests, oral/aural tests, home work tasks and quizzes. Oral and other tests are held on a regular basis. Detailed program announced in class. You cannot perform at other times without legitimate reason, such as submission of a medical certificate, an assessment task conducted during classes from which you were absent. In such circumstances, re-sit of the task is to be completed at the next scheduled assessment date. You are required to keep copies of all works submitted.

1. Oral Tasks
These tasks assess your spoken ability and may consist of guided conversations, role plays, short interviews, and oral presentations.

2. Script tests
These tests assess your reading and writing ability of the scripts

3. Homework tasks and quizzes
These assess your reading and written work as well as grammar functions

4. Listening Tasks
These assess your listening skills in a variety of ways.

Final Exam 50%

The final exams consist of Aural/oral and written exams and are normally held in your class time in Week 17.

Other Information

UNIVERSITY PLAGIARISM STATEMENT

Students are reminded that cheating, whether by fabrication, falsification of data, or plagiarism, is an offence subject to University disciplinary procedures. Plagiarism in oral, written or visual presentations is the presentation of the work, idea, or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is one’s own. Plagiarism is not acceptable. The use of another person’s work or ideas must be acknowledged. Failure to do so may result in charges of academic misconduct, which carry a range of penalties including cancellation of results and exclusion from your course.

Students are responsible for ensuring that their work is kept in a secure place. It is also a disciplinary offence for students to allow their work to be plagiarized by another student. Students should be aware of their rights and responsibilities regarding the use of copyright material.

STUDENT FEEDBACK

Feedback on the balance and focus of the program from you is welcome. Students and staff meet to consult twice in the semester, through the Student-Staff Consultative Committee. Program Experience Surveys are distributed each semester.

For further information about special consideration, enrolment, deferment etc. please refer to your Student Diary.

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