Elementary Twi II

Catalog description

This course will focus on developing interpersonal and interpretive skills to enable students to acquire Level 1+ on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale. Students will be able to initiate and maintain predictable face-to-face conversations and satisfy limited social demands in the language. They may, however, have little understanding of the social conventions of conversation. Range and control of the language will be limited. Speech will largely consist of a series of short, discrete utterances. For example, students will able to satisfy most travel and accommodation needs and a limited range of social demands beyond exchange of skeletal biographic information. Speaking ability may extend beyond immediate survival needs. Accuracy in basic grammatical relations will be evident, although not consistent. May exhibit the more common forms of verb tenses, for example, but may make frequent errors in formation and selection. While some structures are established, errors occur in more complex patterns. The individual typically cannot sustain coherent structures in longer utterances or unfamiliar situations. Ability to describe and give precise information is limited.