Description
Course Details
- Award Type: Minor, NFQ Level 5, 5N2389
- CEFR: A2-B1 (pre-intermediate)
- Credit Value: 15
- Fee: €410.00 (including examination fee) – Deposit of €100 is required with application form which will be sent out after booking.
- Duration: Classes run for 25 weeks @ 2hours per week
- Entry Requirements: Learners must be aged 16 years or older. Learners are expected also to have successfully completed the QQI Level 4 ISL course recently or demonstrate evidence of Recognised Prior Learning (RPL).
- Progression: Learners have an opportunity to progress towards ISL QQI Level 6. Learners may access other programmes offered by other Further Education Training providers.
Course Overview
QQI Award Level 5 Irish Sign Language is a intermediate course where students understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of everyday life. When you finish this course you will have a degree of fluency and be able to engage in conversation with ISL signers. Level 5 courses suit those who have successfully completed our Level 4 course or equalivaet that will progress you to QQI Award Level 5.
What You’ll Learn:
- Describe the Irish Deaf community, Deaf culture, history and education
- Use standard ISL vocabulary, to include everyday terms and topics and those related to familiar area of interest and or work
- Use the conventions of ISL grammar and syntax to produce simple connected sentences in a range of social and or work-related contexts.
- Use the appropriate courtesies and conventions in ISL and electronic communications, to include formal correspondence, making and receiving video calls and providing or using local services such as medical centres, education services, shopping.
- Use ISL receptive skills (watching video recordings in ISL) and research skills to gather information from a range of social/cultural and or work-related documents (which have been recorded in ISL), to include articles, TV News reports, advertisements, signs, health and safety information, regulations, letters, emails, invoices, forms, websites and other mobile and electronic communications
- Use ISL skills to send and deal with a range of formal and informal correspondence, to include a curriculum vitae (CV), letters, invoices, order forms, emails, and text messages
- Summarize, in written notes and ISL, essential points from formal/informal discussions, to include presentations and meetings
- Exchange information in a range of formal and informal contexts, to include greetings, taking leave, describing experiences and events, hopes and ambitions, reasons and explanations for opinions and plans, getting things done, repairing a breakdown in communications
- Exchange technical information, to include descriptions of a product or service, location of a service or organisation, facilities and equipment, dealing with complaints and communication typical of a job interview