New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Level 5)

Summary

Programme Overview

This qualification is intended for learners of English as an additional language, who wish to pursue further English language study in an academic context. Graduates will have the language skills required to communicate independently and effectively in familiar and some less familiar situations with fluency and flexibility in academic settings. This qualification is at a level comparable to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) mid B2 (i.e IELTS 6.0). This qualification allows educational institutions to make informed judgements regarding the level at which the graduate can use English for academic purposes

Programme Length

16 weeks

Programme Scheduling

There are two parts, Part A and Part B. Part A is textbook-based. Students complete 8 units that have been designed by ICL.

Part B is topic-based.

20 hours per week on one of our three timetable strands: 8:30-12:30 / 1:00-5:00 pm / 5:30-9:30, Monday to Friday (20 hours), plus up to 5 hours of optional workshops (by arrangement with the course tutor).

Students are also expected to complete 17.5 hours of personal self-study, per week

Learning Outcomes & Education Pathways

Understand main ideas and supporting details of moderately complex oral academic texts.
Participate effectively in sustained spoken academic discourse.
Understand main ideas and supporting details of moderately complex written academic texts.
Write detailed, developed, moderately complex academic texts.

Education Pathways

This certificate builds on the:

New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Academic) (Level 4)
New Zealand Certificate in English Language (General) (Level 4)
New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Employment). (Level 4)

NZCEL (L5) can lead to:

programmes/courses that are linguistically demanding and/or a specialised field of study most postgraduate programmes/courses, depending on the focus of the programme leading to this qualification.