Course: Language and Culture - Sweden

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Course title Language and Culture - Sweden
Course code JC/ULCV1
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bezdíčková Zuzana, Mgr.
  • Denksteinová Markéta, Mgr.
Course content
The course focuses on communication at CEFR B2 level and provides space for intercultural competence development through English. The course deals with a role of a target culture and language which predetermines langauge pragmatics.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Methods of individual activities, Projection
Learning outcomes
The course aims to develop communicator´s intercultural competence and awareness of cultural background communication impact on recipients.
Student is competent to produce culturally sensitive and matching communication at CEFR B2 level related to their field of study.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral performance analysis, Presentation

Students: 1) prepare presentations on aspects of national culture through: Cultural Iceberg Activities for the Czech Culture Event (to be presented at University of Alicante) 2) participate in the common study programme with students from University of Central Lancashire 3) submit assignments through MAHARA LMS (cultural iceberg, reflective diary)
Recommended literature
  • Kotthoff, Helga. Handbook of intercultural communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-018471-6.


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