MAL0016 - Maltese as a Foreign Language: Pre-Advanced Level

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

Summer Period

4 ECTS

Mode of Study

Part-Time Day

Din it-taqsima hija maħsuba għal min ikun segwa l-MAL0014 u/jew wasal fil-livell Intermedju (CEFR B1) fit-tagħlim tal-Malti bħala lsien barrani. Dawk li jidħlu għaliha jitgħallmu jużaw il-Malti biex jikkomunikaw dwar temi ġenerali, bħall-ġrajjiet kurrenti, l-istorja u l-ġejjieni, kif ukoll dwar sitwazzjonijiet li jeħtieġu espressjonijiet idjomatiċi partikolarment marbuta mal-lingwa Maltija. It-taqsima tfasslet fuq il-prinċipji tal-Qafas Ewropew Komuni ta’ Referenza għall-Ilsna tal-Kunsill tal-Ewropa (CEFR). L-istudenti li jtemmu t-taqsima b’suċċess jistgħu jitqiesu li laħqu l-Livell Bażiku B2 tas-CEFR.

This study-unit is designed for students who have followed MAL0011, MAL0012, MAL0013 and MAL0014 and/or already have an intermediate knowledge of Maltese. Participants will learn how to communicate in Maltese about general topics, such as current affairs, history and future prospects, as well as about situations that require further idiomatic expressions peculiar to the Maltese language. The unit is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe (CEFR). Hence, on completion of MAL0016, successful students may be considered to have achieved the Basic Level B2 of the CEFR.

Method of Assessment

Assessment Component/s

Weighting

Classwork

100%

Main Reading List

Students will be assigned detailed notes and readings specifically designed for the course and which will be made available throughout the study-unit.
Mifsud, M. & Borg. A. J. (1997) Fuq l-Għatba tal-Malti. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Muscat, D., Mifsud, C. & Mallia, G. (2006) Sisien. Malta: Id-Diviżjoni tal-Edukazzjoni.
Sciriha, L. (1996) Beginning Maltese. Malta: University of Malta.
Sciriha, L. (2010) Continuing Maltese. Malta: University of Malta.
Vella, J. (1993) Learn Maltese. Why not? Malta: Valletta Publishing.

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Study-unit Aims

This study-unit enables students to enhance and acquire Maltese language skills in reading writing, listening, and speaking. In addition, it supports each skills-based lesson with speaking activities designed to give students the opportunity to acquire and practice vocabulary and grammar.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

read articles and reports concerned with current events in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints;
write clear text on a wide range of subjects related to their interests;
write messages and letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences with better idiomaticity;
interact with a higher degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible;
take a more active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining their views;
understand further extended speech and lectures and follow lines of argument in less typical topics of discussion;
understand to a higher degree TV news and current affairs programmes.

Learning Outcomes: Skills

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

understand the main points of texts in formal as well as colloquial standard language about topics with which they are familiar, whether in work, study, or leisure contexts;
cope with more advanced sentences featuring topicalization and related structures;
produce simple, coherent texts about topics which have been introduced via various kinds of media;
describe experiences, events, wishes, and aspirations, as well as briefly justify opinions or explain plan using structures beyond the intermediate level.

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EUR225

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