This is a course for the special target group of English specialists, BA LET students majoring or minoring in English (literature, linguistics, philology, language). It requires and develops analytical skills/language awareness and promotes accuracy, fluency and complexity development in oral expression and speech events. Awareness raising also comprises stylistic registers as well as academic text types. The course also promotes conceptual development and concommitant vocabulary expansion around the umbrella theme of the oral presentations.
The adjective/prəˈfɪʃnt/proficient (in/at (doing) something) means 'able to do sth well because of training and practice' (OALD 9th ed). The noun proficiency is also used in descriptions of language competence, more specifically even as a label for the highest-level certificate of the Cambridge ESOL. More generally, language learners at the advanced levels C1 and C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) are described as proficient users. C1 is also named Effective Operational Proficiency and C2 Mastery. In this course, all these senses are implicated.
- Teacher: Niklas Fischer
- Teacher: Iris Schaller-Schwaner