Not open to native speakers of Bengali
Goals for the Course:
The course aims to develop the students’ Bangla competency in four skills. The skills are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The assessment of those skills and the building of competency will be accomplished through an assortment of classes, which focus on various aspects of learning Bangla. Below is a description of each different class along with a weekly schedule according to which the course will run. My target is to help students attain a level of skills through which, by the end of the program, they should at least be able to–
Speaking: • initiate and go along with a brief conversation, specially but not limited to greetings and leave taking. • engage in momentary conversational events on immediate topics, for example, asking directions, responding to personal information questions, etc. • introduce themselves in an uncomplicated fashion.
Listening: • understand predictable personal information spoken to them. • follow clearly articulated everyday conversation, which are predictable. • listen to a short narrative and form hypotheses about what will happen next. • understand the survival instructions in their daily life.
Reading: • understand road signs, home address, news paper ads and so on. • guess the meaning of single unknown words from the context thus deducing the meaning of expressions if the topic is familiar. • understand the most important information in short simple everyday information brochures.
Writing: • write simple texts about experiences or events, for example about a trips to different places. • write personal letters to friends or acquaintances asking for or giving them news and narrating events. • express feelings such as grief, happiness, interest, regret and sympathy.
