University of Antwerp LEPAGE Els, Linguistic and pedagogical Adviser for EnglishContact: Els HEUGHEBAERT (Language Courses Coordinator)email: els.heughebaert@uantwerpen.be
Keywords: English Language Course, trimester course, different levels
Aims of ‘English Language Course’: improving language skills in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish
1. Active and communicative
Communicative, interactive and task-oriented, continuous interaction between all the students and we in turn expect them to participate actively in class. We provide maximum speaking opportunities through numerous practice-oriented and functional language tasks, assignments in groups or pairs.
2. Efficient and competency-focused
We train the students in five language skills: reading, listening, writing, speaking and effective communication. The target language of the course is also the language of instruction.
The pace of our language courses is fast: students are required to absorb a lot of information in a short span of time. Consequently, they must process the course material before and after classroom sessions through self-study and distance learning. The students are also expected to train their language skills independently.
3. Formal accuracy
Besides focusing on the communicative aspect of language, we also pay attention to the formal accuracy of the student’s usage: their speech and writing must be grammatically correct, so that their audience is able to understand them without strain or effort.
4. Varied teaching methods:
the best approaches from old and new teaching methods to ensure that students are able to study aspects of the target language in the manner that most appeals to them.
5. Homogeneous groups:
All course participants are highly qualified and have a comparable level of proficiency in the target language.
6. Learning result and learning pleasure
Our teaching approach offers a framework whereby the constant interaction of learning result and learning pleasure is aimed at. Both objectives are the driving forces that enable students to develop their language skills to the fullest.
Updated on April 9, 2019
