Form C4
1. Course
Code
5. School
7. Delivery:
Location &
Semester
Heriot-Watt University - Course Descriptor
C49TQ
2. Course
Title
Year Abroad Placement (Teaching Practice & Foreign Language
Research Project)
Management and Languages
Edin
SBC
Orkney
Sem 2
Sem…….
Sem………..
8. Pre-requisites
C48TE1, C48TF2
9. Linked Courses
(specify if synoptic)
10. Excluded Courses
C49TP1 (synoptic)
11. Replacement Courses
Code:
IDL
Collaborative Partner
Sem……..
Sem….
Name…………………….....Sem..…...
Date Of Replacement:
13. The course may be
delivered to:
UG only
PG only
UG & PG
9
4. Credits
60
6. Course
John Cleary
Co-ordinator
Approved Learning Partner
Dubai
12. Degrees for which
this is a core course
3. SCQF
Level
Name …………………………………Sem………..
MA (Hons) Foreign Languages & TESOL
C4GM-FLT
14. Available as an Elective?
Yes
No
15. Aims
To develop the student’s skills in teaching English to speakers of other languages.
To enable the student to engage in detailed and independent study.
To promote and assess the student's ability to collect and evaluate relevant information, to marshal thoughts and to present them clearly.
To test and develop the student's sustained command of appropriate linguistic skills in the foreign languages.
16. Syllabus
Students spend an academic year in just one country, where the main language of study is spoken, participating in a teaching placement. This will enable the student to
gain the necessary teaching practice to complete the degree requirements, and to gain the experience of living in the language environment of study. The placement will be
as a teaching assistant normally organised by application to the British Council, who have a long established track record in organising such placements, and supporting the
students who participate in them.
Students write a project in the foreign language. The general topic areas and lines of approach should be established as early as possible and preferably before students
leave for their studies abroad. Topics will normally be chosen from any of the areas covered by the Complementary Studies modules in year 2 (C48CS1, C48CT2). These
are: media, education, social services, industrial relations, parties and pressure groups, government systems, regionalism and Europe. Topics dealing with language studies
and linguistics, or, for FL-TESOL students, topics arising out of the TESOL 1 modules (C48TE1, C48TF2), may be chosen. In this case formal approval should be received
from the student’s designated supervisor before leaving the university at the end of Second Year. In the case of such topics a clear connection with the Second Year
Linguistics or TESOL curricula must be evident. Only in exceptional cases will topics outside the areas stated above be given approval.
Students are required to maintain regular - at minimum, monthly - contact with supervisors, taking particular care to submit as required their outline proposals and detailed
plans of their proposed study. Typically, the supervisor will respond to and discuss a student’s suggestion, rather than suggest and initiate project topics and the course of
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research.
17. Learning Outcomes (HWU Core Skills: Employability and Professional Career Readiness)
Subject Mastery
Personal Abilities
Understanding, Knowledge and Cognitive
Scholarship, Enquiry and Research (Research-Informed Learning)
Skills
Identify, analyse and resolve routine problems and issues associated with living and studying abroad.
Develop an understanding of intercultural and interlingual issues.
Demonstrate a broad, detailed and integrated knowledge and understanding of the scope, main areas and boundaries of the selected Foreign
Language project topic.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of a selection of the principal theories, principles, concepts and terminology relevant to the selected project
topic.
Develop the principal skills, techniques, practices and/or materials associated with project writing:
Fieldwork (e.g. visits to archives, interviews, questionnaires, surveys), gathering, sorting, analysing, evaluating information; planning and
writing; arguing a case; drafting, editing and revising.
Deal with ethical issues in accordance with the current School ethical guidelines for Research, seeking guidance where appropriate.
Industrial, Commercial & Professional Practice
Autonomy, Accountability & Working with Others
Communication, Numeracy & ICT
Practice routines methods of enquiry and/or research.
Demonstrate evidence of independent enquiry or investigation.
Draw on a range of sources in making judgements.
Work in a range of contexts which include a degree of unpredictability.
Undertake critical analysis, evaluation and/or synthesis of ideas, concepts, information and issues.
Develop oral and written communication skills.
Assess priorities; multi-task.
Develop interpersonal skills.
Use a range of IT applications to support and enhance work.
Exercise autonomy and initiative.
Work under guidance with qualified practitioners.
18. Assessment Methods
Method
19. Re-assessment Methods
Duration of Exam
Weighting (%)
Synoptic courses?
Method
(if applicable)
Foreign Language Research Project
-
Duration of Exam
(if applicable)
100%
C49TP1
Resubmit Foreign
Language Research
Project
20. Date and Version
Date of Proposal
Date of Approval by
School Committee
Date of
Implementation
Version
Number
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Diet(s)