Tutored Online Language Courses ****************************************************************************************** * Tutored Online Language Courses ****************************************************************************************** The Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies at Charles University in Prague (ILPS C only educational centre in the Czech Republic that systematically concerns itself with bot and specific aspects of language and the specialized preparation of foreigners for studies universities. In 2004 the institute established the Laboratory of Distant Studies in order the development of distant courses. We were introduced to everything this institution has students, and not only them, by PhDr. Mgr. Petr Hercik, director of the Laboratory of Dist Irrespective of the instruction form, who are your courses prim ILPS CU courses are primarily intended for foreign students who at Czech universities. A one-year, two-semester Czech course fo all language skills and is complemented with instruction of spe economics, humanities, technical, natural and medical sciences. ILPS study centres in Prague – Hloubětín, Poděbrady and Mariáns year 2010/11 in the Krystal Centre in Prague. Can foreigners who are not preparing to enter a university also enrol in these courses? In addition to the preparatory courses, ILPS also offers whole-year, semester and short-te Czech courses intended for the wide public. These are six-week, evening and individual cou exam courses for applicants for permanent residency in the Czech Republic and Czech Langua Exams. ILPS CU represents Charles University as a full-fledged and exclusive member of ALT "http://www.alte.org"] (The Association of Language Testers in Europe) for the Czech Repub Czech Language Certificate Exams for Foreigners for four knowledge levels: A1, A2, B1 and ujop.cuni.cz/cce [ URL "http://ujop.cuni.cz/cce"] ) Czech language summer courses, the Summer School of Slavonic Studies and a Czech Language Course in Dobruška take place in July and August. Grammatical genders presentation Do you also offer courses of foreign languages for Czech speaking students? ILPS provides English language instruction at the Faculty of Science, CU through both face distant learning instruction. English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic language courses are offered to the public. Besides preparation for the PET, FC international English certificates, ILPS also offers its own standardized English language state employees. Besides face-to-face instruction, you also offer online Czech courses. How are they organi In addition to face-to-face instruction, at the beginning of the 21st century we followed in education and started developing e-learning courses. At first, English online courses f students were developed. We now offer courses for pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-in FCE students. A course for elementary English will be available the next academic year; we Business English course. In 2004 the Laboratory of Distant Studies was established in order to coordinate the devel distant courses at ILPS CU and a decision was made to prepare Czech courses, which is the institute. The institute entered the International E-learning Association. Our first cours the actual/current needs of foreign students who, for different reasons, were unable to st on time. We developed an Introductory Course of Czech Language for Foreigners, a multimedi face-to-face audio-oral course where students are introduced to Czech as a foreign languag successfully offered until this year when it was substituted with a Breakthrough Czech Onl "http://ujop.cuni.cz/ldv/cj_a1_en.php"] (A1 level, Common European Framework of Reference CEFR). A course at the A2 level of the CEFR, is currently being prepared. Compliance with – authors of the course are experienced specialists in the field of Czech as a foreign lan cooperate with our Research and Test Centre. Listening practice What sets your courses apart from the competition? The most typical feature of our e-learning courses is the fact that these are online cours tutor-assisted at all times – either solely online or blended learning, which is a combina course and face-to-face conversational tutorials. The course remains accessible after the assistance until the end of the respective academic year (each course has a fixed study pe evaluated together with other features in trial pilot courses). For online courses without enrolment is available any time during the academic year. Course studies are interrupted f holiday. An important and unique feature of our courses is the fact that they are not only system-l too. The system monitors if students successfully complete at least 60% of the content on page in a lesson before continuing to the next lesson. Noting the fact that students can d answers in exercises, studying must be monitored by a tutor as well. It is achieved throug that are limited to one session only (unlike the lessons) – students who fail the test mus tutor to discuss their mistakes. These tests are placed after every third lesson. It is ve because students must follow the course in the correct order, not randomly – only spiral l ensure an effective course. On the other hand, experience from e-learning specialists show themselves demand a certain amount of pressure to make sure they do not leave the course b Vocabulary presentation What do these courses include? Course contents focus on vocabulary and grammar presentation and practice, reading and lis comprehension, writing and socio-cultural aspects. We employ the most comprehensively stru presentations through the medium of charts, tables and specific use of designating colours distinguish Czech grammatical genders), and video-recordings. The types of interactive exe with modern e-learning trends. Illustrations, photos and audio-recordings are all made by Courses include tapescripts of all recordings, dictionaries and grammar books. Study mater can also be downloaded in PDF format from the institute’s website (http://ujop.cuni.cz/ldv ujop.cuni.cz/ldv"] ), which also includes our learning management address (http://ujop.itu "http://ujop.itutor.cz"] ) where you can try a Demo English Lesson or a demo for the Czech Foreigners course.  Username and password is “demo”. Socio-cultural aspects presentation (Lucie Kettnerová)