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GLC International
ENGLISH
Language Centre
The GLC International English
Language programme.
The
program components are reading, writing, listening and speaking, with
emphasis on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. The GLC programme is
designed to encourage language learning habits among the students through
guided activities that challenge and improve the students’ individual
abilities.
Activities
will also incorporate audio, video and computer aids to enhance the
learning and teaching process. Interactive participation such as
workshop, drama, and visits are required of the participants. Students
are also expected to use their own initiative to use the language outside
the classroom.
GLC Program Objective:
Upon
completion of this program, learners will be able to:
§ Function
in various communicative contexts fluently using the appropriate language
§ Listen
accurately and respond accordingly
§ Acquire
essential micro reading skills and comprehension skills for the
understanding of various text types
§ Write
various formal and informal texts: letters, reports, descriptive texts,
expository texts and argumentative texts
§ Use
basic grammatical items in various communicative contexts
participate
and communicate effectively in various social and academic contexts
Learning Outcomes:
At the
end of this program, learners will be able to achieve the following
learning outcomes:
§ Listen
and understand various texts in class and assessment
§ Apply
listening skills in various social and academic contexts
§ Communicate
fluently and confidently in delivering of speeches, discussions,
explanations, descriptions and other
speaking activities
§ Apply
essential micro reading skills in the overall comprehension of various
texts types in class and assessment
§ Identify
and differentiate the distinctive linguistic features of various text
§ Apply
linguistic features of a specific text type in writing tasks and
assessment: letters, reports,
descriptions, expositions and argumentations
§ Use
correct grammar and appropriate vocabulary in various writing tasks and
assessment
Synopsis:
This
program is designed to help learners build their language competence and
communicative skills in order to function effectively in the social and
academic context. The program focuses on building learners’ language
skills and proficiency. This is
done through the use of communicative tasks where essential language
skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are taught separately
while grammar and vocabulary are taught in context. Topics of general and contemporary
interest are used to encourage learners’ participation.
