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Service Learning & Community Development
2009 Spring Semester - Course Description
Xhosa Language and Culture
CEA Partner Institution: Stellenbosch University
Location: Stellenbosch, South AfricaPrimary Subject Area: Xhosa Language & Literature
Level(s): 100
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Description
The course will enable students to demonstrate their speaking and listening skills at a lower beginner level from the selected communication themes. They will be able to:
- Show understanding of a sequence of two or three instructions/ descriptions.
- Listen and understand simple descriptions; actions; and scenes.
- Show understanding relating to the identification and description of persons and objects.
- Name general objects.
- Take part in short dialogues.
- Ask for goods; services; and objects.
- Comment on opinions and preferences.
- Answer questions and give details of simple explanations emerging from listening contents.
- Write essays about familiar subjects/themes.
- Read sentences that have been mastered orally about a variety of subjects.
- Read shorter and longer, more familiar texts and understand the central contents of the paragraph.
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