Teaching in the course should cover the following core content:
Content of Communication
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Subject areas related to students’ education, and societal and working life; current issues; events and processes; thoughts, opinions, ideas, experiences and feelings; relationships and ethical issues.
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Content and form in different kinds of fiction.
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Living conditions, attitudes, values and traditions, as well as social, political and cultural conditions in different contexts and parts of the world where English is used. The spread of English and its position in the world.
Reception
- Spoken language, also with different social and dialect features, and texts that instruct, relate, summarise, explain, discuss, report and argue, also via film and other media.
- Coherent spoken language and conversations of different kinds, such as interviews.
- Literature and other fiction.
- Texts of different kinds and for different purposes, such as manuals, popular science texts and reports.
- Strategies for listening and reading in different ways and for different purposes.
- Different ways of searching for, selecting and evaluating texts and spoken language.
- How words and phrases in oral and written communications create structure and context by clarifying introduction, causal connection, time aspects, and conclusions.
Production and interaction
- Oral and written production and interaction of various kinds, also in more formal settings, where students instruct, narrate, summarise, explain, comment, assess, give reasons for their opinions, discuss and argue.
- Strategies for contributing to and actively participating in discussions related to societal and working life.
- Processing of their own and others’ oral and written communications in order to vary, clarify and specify, as well as to create structure and adapt these to their purpose and situation. This covers the use of words and phrases that clarify causal connections and time aspects.
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