The aim of the course is to develop student language skills so that they can communicate in a modern language in typical, everyday, social, professional, and academic situations.
Learning Outcomes:
- Listening – Ability to identify overall context and details, as well as an overall understanding of contents, to deduce the attitudes and opinions of speakers. Those goals are achieved by listening to short and long statements, dialogues, TV and radio news and other programmes.
- Reading – comprehension of a text context and specific details, understanding the discussions in a field of professional interest, scanning for specific information, formulating opinions based on reading materials on everyday life aspects.
- Speaking – Ability to introduce yourself and respond to questions, describe and comment on pictures, discuss a topic or various problems with others and arrive at a conclusion, explain, summarise and develop discussions.
- Writing – ability to write various types of texts, use argumentation, express opinions and “the pros and cons,” describing and reporting events.
Students are obliged to pass an exam in a foreign language (meaning not their native language or an official language of their country of residence) on the B1 level. You can find language classes offered by universities taught in English up to level A2; courses are taught in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian and Polish; from the B1 level, all courses are only taught in the language students are learning (so they will not be taught in English or Polish, and they will not be listed in the system as courses taught in English, nonetheless English speaking students can easily attend them). A student has to pass the B1 exam to pass the 3rd year of BA, but there is a possibility to pass this exam earlier – on the 1st or 2nd year of the BA programme. The exam DOES NOT need to be the language learnt during classes. If a student has acquired language certificates and grades obtained outside the University of Warsaw, it needs to be presented to the Director of the Centre for Foreign Language Teaching, who will decide if it will suffice in the place of an internal university exam.
If the programme requires passing Modern Language & Modern Language II (students starting before Oct 2019):
The required classes can be used to learn two OR ONE foreign language. By the end of the 3rd year of BA, students must pass ONE B1 exam as stated before.