MAL0014 - Maltese as a Foreign Language: Intermediate Level

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

Semester 2

4 ECTS

Mode of Study

Part-Time Day

Din it-taqsima hija ma魔suba g魔al min ikun segwa b'su膵膵ess l-ewwel tliet livelli offruti g魔al dan il-kors: l-MAL0011, MAL0012 u l-MAL0013 u/jew wasal fil-livell preintermedju (CEFR A2) fit-tag魔lim tal-Malti b魔ala lsien barrani. Il-parte膵ipanti li jid魔lu g魔aliha jitg魔allmu ju偶aw il-Malti biex jikkomunikaw dwar temi 摹enerali b魔as-sa魔魔a, il-karriera u l-kultura b'iktar dettall, u dwar sitwazzjonijiet li jitolbu i偶jed g魔arfien lessikali b魔ad-dehra u d-deskrizzjoni tal-personalit脿. It-taqsima hi mfassla fuq il-prin膵ipji tal-Qafas Ewropew Komuni ta鈥� Referenza g魔all-Ilsna tal-Kunsill tal-Ewropa (CEFR). L-istudenti li jtemmu t-taqsima b鈥檚u膵膵ess jistg魔u jitqiesu li jkunu la魔qu l-Livell Ba偶iku B1 tas-CEFR.

This study-unit is designed for students who have successfully followed the first three level offered for this course: MAL0011, MAL0012 and MAL0013 and/or already have basic knowledge of Maltese as a Foreign Language. Participants will learn how to communicate in Maltese about general topics such as health, career and culture in more detail, as well as about situations requiring further lexical knowledge such as appearances and personality description. The unit is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe (CEFR). Hence, on completion of MAL0014, successful students may be considered to have achieved the Basic Level B1 of the CEFR.

Main Reading List

Students will be assigned detailed notes and readings which will be made available throughout the study-unit.

Mifsud, M. & Borg. A. J. (1997) Fuq l-G魔atba tal-Malti. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Muscat, D., Mifsud, C. & Mallia, G. (2006) Sisien. Malta: Id-Divi偶joni tal-Edukazzjoni.
Sciriha, L. (1996) Beginning Maltese. Malta: University of Malta.
Vella, J. (1993) Learn Maltese. Why not? Malta: Valletta Publishing.
Saliba, C. D. (2013). Maltese Grammar Essentials. Malta: Gutenberg Press.

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Study-unit Aims

This unit enables students to enhance and acquire Maltese language skills in reading writing, listening, and speaking at an intermediate level. In addition, it supports each skills-based lesson with speaking activities designed to give students the opportunity to acquire and practice vocabulary and grammar. The main objective at this level is to enable the students to understand and speak in the past and future tenses. They should be able to speak about their life, to retell their biography, to value experiences, or to express desires and basic hypotheses. The unit prepares the student to understand written texts from real life, such as announcements, TV shows, and simple brochures. The unit not only enriches the students鈥� vocabulary but also consolidates the structures and knowledge that the students have, while increasing their confidence and self-assurance while speaking.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints;
write clear text on a wide range of subjects related to their interests;
write letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences;
interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible;
take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining their views;
understand extended speech and lectures and follow lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar;
understand to a certain degree TV news and current affairs programmes.

Learning Outcomes: Skills

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

understand the main points of clear texts in standard language if they are about topics with which they are familiar, whether in work, study, or leisure contexts;
cope with most of the situations that might arise on a trip to areas where the language is used;
produce simple, coherent texts about topics with which they are familiar or in which they have a personal interest;
describe experiences, events, wishes, and aspirations, as well as briefly justify opinions or explain plan.

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