CETT-ELTE BUDAPEST B.Ed. Programme
AFN-108 (ex-AT-108): Special Skills Development Elective (2hrs/wk, 2 credits)
Note: unlike most CETT courses, these electives last one semester only.
Every semester CETT tutors offer elective language improvement courses in their own fields of interest or specialisation, as part of the first-year programme. These courses vary considerably in content and nature, and titles change from year to year, depending on the offerings of individual staff and the favour these find with trainees. Currently available courses are listed on the School of English and American Studies' website at http://seas2.elte.hu/studies/courses.html .
Here follows a selection of some recent titles, with brief descriptions:
Talk at TOLC
The aim of the course is to improve first-year students’ speaking skills through discussion and simulation activities. The seminar also aims to provide the participants with an opportunity to become familiar with and get ample practice in the oral component of the end-of-year TOLC examination.
Accurately, please!
This course is intended to complement the existing Tudatos nyelvhasználat course. The emphasis will be on analysing, predicting, preventing, spotting and dealing with inaccuracy and inappropriacy in discourse, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Participants will be expected to produce and present their own materials, as well as working on texts provided by the tutor.
Developing Interactive Skills:
Since in real life effective oral communication strategies in English seem to be indispensible ingredients of professional and personal success, I thought a course preparing you for such situations might be beneficial. In this course you will be required to TALK and LISTEN and ANALYSE the interactive tasks after they have taken place. Individual, as well as group tasks which might occur in everyday or employment-related situations will be carried out and evaluated (partly but not necessarily by using the TOLC criteria). Since the focus is on interaction, listening actively and supportively will be as crucial as the speaking side of communication. If you are ready for all this, please join us for a couple of “chats”.
Learning (from) writing
Writing is not only “text production”, but a complex activity involving the study of vocabulary, structure, style and the message itself. This option aims to improve writing skills but, at the same time, to draw conclusions from “writing”, that is, materials written by others.
A chance to talk
The course aims to expand students’ vocabulary with special emphasis on fixed and semi-fixed expressions, collocations, language chunks whose knowledge could considerably advance learners’ fluency. Second, it aims to familiarise students with appropriate learning strategies and ways of recording vocabulary. A considerable amount of structured self-study will be expected of those who take this course.
In training for listening comprehension:
This course aims to develop the listening skills of students who have had relatively little exposure to authentic spoken English and whose listening has been developed primarily as a means to a grammatical or structural end. The curriculum covers all the major sub-skills of listening, containing recordings of different types, accents, topics, settings and situations, accompanied by a wide range of different listening comprehension tasks.