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Bridging the Gap: Advancing from B1 to B2

Bridging the Gap: Advancing from B1 to B2
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"Bridging the Gap: Advancing from B1 to B2 with 21st Century Skills" is an innovative online course designed for learners aiming to improve their language proficiency and transition smoothly from the B1 to B2 level. This MOOC focuses on enhancing listening, speaking, and reading skills while incorporating the 21st-century 4Cs—Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration. Throughout the course, participants will engage with current global issues such as climate change, technology, and space exploration, all while improving their language skills. This MOOC offers a comprehensive approach to mastering language proficiency with a real-world focus.
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About This Course

The title of this MOOC is “Bridging the Gap: Advancing from B1 to B2”. This MOOC is designed for adults and teenagers who aim to enhance their listening, speaking, and reading skills or wish to review essential topics before taking a B2 level exam. The course also focuses on developing the key competencies of the 21st century, known as the 4Cs: Creativity, Critical thinking, Communication, and Collaboration. Furthermore, the course aims to raise environmental awareness by concentrating most activities on climate change issues and highlighting sustainable solutions to address them.

Participants will embark on an exciting journey of learning a foreign language while engaging with current topics in environment, technology, and space exploration.

Requirements

According to British Council, the trainees must be independent users of English language at level B1. This means that they can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. They can also deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken. They can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Finally, the trainees can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Course Staff

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Koulovaki Argyro- Dimitra

I have a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Athens and a Master's degree in "Geopolitical Analysis, Geostrategic Composition and Defense and International Security Studies" from the University of Athens. In 2023 I started the Master's Program in "E-Learning" from the University of Piraeus, in the framework of which I am working on this thesis.

Learning Outcomes

According to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion volume (Council of Europe, 2020), the trainees after the successful completion of this MOOC will be able to:

  •   Learning Outcome 1.1: understand detailed instructions well enough to be able to follow them successfully. (B2) (Understanding announcements & instructions) [understand]
  •   Learning Outcome 1.2: identify the main reasons for and against an argument or idea in a discussion conducted in clear standard language or a familiar variety. (B2) (Understanding conversation between other people) [analyze]
  •   Learning Outcome 2.1: understand most TV news and current affairs programmes. (B2) (Watching TV, film, and video) [understand]
  •   Learning Outcome 2.2: understand documentaries, live interviews, talk shows, plays and the majority of films in the standard form of the language or a familiar variety. (B2) (Watching TV, film, and video) [understand]
  •   Learning Outcome 3.1: scan quickly through long and complex texts, locating relevant details. (B2) (Reading for orientation) [apply]
  •   Learning Outcome 3.2: recognize when a text provides factual information and when it seeks to convince readers of something. (B2) (Reading for information and argument) [analyze]
  •   Learning Outcome 4.1: explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. (B2) (Sustained monologue: putting a case (e.g., in a debate) [evaluate]
  •   Learning Outcome 4.2: develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting their points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. (B2) (Sustained monologue: putting a case (e.g., in a debate) [create]
 

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