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Course Description: Higher Advanced Plus is for those who have completed the Advanced Plus course (level 5) or who have excellent knowledge of the Slovene language acquired through living in Slovenia or through regularly using the language in work or personal relationships. The aim of the course is to give students the opportunity to revise, consolidate, and build on the skills they acquired in the Advanced Plus course. The course runs over three ten-week terms and each session is two hours long. The course includes all four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.听
Topics: Slovene minorities and emigration in the world (incl. the UK), the Slovene economy, Slovene politics, Slovene inventions and achievements, professional networking in Slovenia, human rights, citizen rights and constitution, environmental issues, Slovene culture (music, theatre, cinema, iconic places and personalities), topics chosen according to students鈥� own interests.
Functions: understanding dialectal variation, analysing and responding to reviews and criticism, communication and interaction with Slovenes, reporting on events and matters of public interest, preparing presentations, 鈥榬eading between the lines鈥� (i.e., detecting non-explicit content in texts), practising advanced translation from and into Slovene.听
Grammar: revision of grammar introduced in previous levels.
Study Materials: Andreja Markovi膷, Mihaela Knez, Nina 艩oba, Mojca Stritar, Slovenska beseda v 啪ivo 3a [textbook and workbook] (Ljubljana: Znanstvena zalo啪ba Filozofske fakultete, 2018)
Andreja Ponikvar, Mihaela Knez, Tanja Jerman, Oblike v oblakih: slovni膷ne preglednice (Ljubljana: Znanstvena zalo啪ba Filozofske fakultete, 2020)
It will be supported by press articles, audio and video clips and the teacher鈥檚 materials.
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