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Latvian for Exchange Students
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:11.00
Study Course Accepted:09.04.2024 10:18:31
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_112 | LQF level: | All Levels | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Dentistry; Sociology; Social Welfare and Social Work; Psychology; Juridical Science; Medicine; Business Management; Rehabilitation; Pharmacy; Communication Science; Public Health; Political Science; Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Laizāne | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge of the English language. Without preliminary knowledge of the Latvian. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To acquire basics of Latvian in order to be able to communicate at basic level A1 (according to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The Latvian language, its specifics. Alphabet, pronunciation. Greetings, introducing. Verb "to be/ not to be". Personal pronouns. Gender and number of the noun. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Possesive pronoun "my". Constructions "I/ you have..., I/ you like/ don’t like/ it hurts". Parts of human body. Forming questions. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Locative case. Verbs of 2nd conjugation in present. Countries, nationalities, languages. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Cardinal numerals. Address, telephone number, age. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Clock time. Verbs "starts, ends, arrives, leaves". Time adverbs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Ordinal numbers. Days, months, dates. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Accusative case. Food, mealtimes. Verbs "to eat, to drink" in present, past and future. Shopping. Verb "to buy". Prices (numerals in accusative). | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Review of 2nd conjugation verbs. Verbs of 3rd conjugation in present, past and future. Studies and leisure time, hobbies. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Review. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work – mastering of the vocabulary of the corresponding topic, work with a dictionary. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Presentation "Me and my family" (40%). Written test, which includes a multiple choice test to check grammar and vocabulary of the course content (60%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Upon successful completion of the course, students will know: • the lexical minimum of conversational themes; • the simplest language rules; • the principles of question formation, including question words. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to: • comprehend simple necessary information; • give information about oneself, family, studies, daily routine orally and in writing; • ask simple questions and to answer them. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to use Latvian language at basic level in daily communication. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | I.Auziņa, M.Berķe, A.Lazareva, A.Šalme. Laipa (A1). Latviešu valoda. Mācību grāmata un darba burtnīca. LVA, 2014 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kaija, Inga, Laizāne, Inga. „Latviešu valodas gramatika. Pamatlīmenis: A1. Grammar of the Latvian language. Elementary: A1”. Rīga: LVA, 2022. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | https://www.letonika.lv/groups/default.aspx?g=5&r=1100 | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.sazinastilts.lv/language-learning/vocabulary/?la… | ||||||||
