• an Auto-evaluation Report based on the Assessment Criteria provided.

Ideally, all workshop-related tasks should also contain an element of database searches.

The portfolio will be assessed by the module tutor and the Student Services counsellor (weighting: 90% ).

The weighting for self assessment is 10%.

Total: 100% (first half of the module)

A presentation in the foreign language on acquisition of intercultural competence will be delivered After the PRA, at the beginning of the final year, within the context of mainstream classes. For students not enrolled on the module, the criteria for assessment are: linguistic and sociolinguistic competence, communication skills, quality of content.

For students enrolled on the module, the content of the presentation will consist of an analysis of their development in the following areas: sociocultural knowledge, intercultural awareness, practical skills, intercultural and interactional skills, study skills, heuristic skills, linguistic and sociolinguistic competence. A link must be drawn with the learning activities in the first part of the module.

Weighting: 50%

A written analytical account based on the personal learning log will be presented at the end of the module, After the PRA. This account (2000-3000 words in length ) should chart a student’s development from the beginning to the end of the module, analysing personal growth and intercultural competence, including both the impact of living and working or studying in a foreign country and the impact of the module itself.

It will also address the issue of employability.

The assessor will expect the students to recognise, where applicable, challenges to their sense of identity, to identify key elements in the module which led to resistance and attitudinal shifts. The account must be of an appropriate level of introspection for reflection on the learning process and demonstrate recognition by the students that they are socially constructed.

Questions to be asked might be, for example 

"How do I come to be me in this culture?"

"What have I gained/lost by doing this module?"

"What am I challenged by?"

"What do I want to continue with?"

"When did the shift occur from feeling like an outsider to feeling that I was a member of the community?"

"What brought about that shift?"

"When did I feel/not feel (linguistically) competent?"

"What questions do I now have that I did not have at the beginning of the module?"

"How big is Britain?" 

and so on.

The account will be presented at the end of the second half of the module and assessed by the Student Services counsellor.

Weighting: 50%

AUTO-EVALUATION REPORT

Write between 800 and 1000 words evaluating your learning at the end of the semester preceding the period of residence abroad. Evaluate your own portfolio by using the Assessment Criteria below.  Hand this in with your completed portfolio tasks.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA