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Intensive Tamil Language Programme

Tamil Language Programme
  

Course

Components

Duration /

No. of hours

Tuition Fees

Foundation Tamil Language (FTL)

Language Skills Development

(Introductory)

Listening

  • Introduction of Tamil Language Sound System and its alphabets
  • Pronunciation Practice : Uyir and Mei Eluthukkal
  • Useful Daily Expressions – Greetings and expressional phrases and Family introductions
  • Understanding simple daily conversations
  • Selected Tamil songs, poems and advertisements
  • Numbers and Body parts

 

Reading

  • Vocabulary building
  • Short texts, dialogues
  • Selected short stories

 

Speaking

  • Developing pronunciation skill
  • Communicating in Tamil language in daily activities including telephone conversations and conversation in a restaurant.
  • Simple oral presentations – demo, interpretation
  • Language games

 

Writing

  • Memo, emails, diary, letters
  • Guided / pictorial writing
  • Dialogues
  • Essays
  • Short stories
  • Poems

 

Grammar

  • Tenses: Simple present and past tenses, 
  • Affirmative and negative statements; complex sentences
  • Conjunctions, particles and subject-verb agreements
  • Conjugations of verbs and adjectives
  • Singular and plural
  • Antonym List

 

10 weeks

16 hours

per week

(Total: 160 hours)

 

MYR 3200.00

(USD 900)

Intensive Tamil Language (ITL I)

Language Skills Development

(Elementary)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 weeks

16 hours

per week

(Total: 160 hours)

 

 

MYR 3200.00

(USD 900)

Intensive Tamil Language (ITL II)

Language Skills Development

(Intermediate)

 

 

10 weeks

16 hours

per week

(Total: 160 hours)

 

 

MYR 3200.00

(USD 900)

Intensive Tamil Language (ITL III)

Language Skills Development

(Upper-Intermediate)

Listening

  • Understanding social Tamil language
  • Understanding Tamil language news, weather forecast, documentary,  and etc
  • Understanding lectures and talks
  • Note taking
  • Time

 

Reading

  • Reading selected magazines, websites, story books etc
  • Skimming and scanning papers, journals and thesis
  • Reading and analyzing academics texts

 

Speaking

  • Developing oral presentation skills
  • Participating in academic discussions, workshops seminars
  • Delivering speeches

Writing

  • Note taking
  • General essay writing
  • Academic writing –  minutes,reports, thesis

 

 

10 weeks

16 hours

per week

(Total: 160 hours)

 

 

MYR 3200.00

(USD 900)

Intensive Tamil Language (ITL IV)

Language Skills Development

(Advanced)

 

 

10 weeks

16 hours

per week

(Total: 160 hours)

 

 

MYR 3200.00

(USD 900)


For further enquiries, please contact:
 
Dean
School of Languages, Literacies and Translation
Universiti Sains Malaysia 
11800 Minden 
Penang Malaysia 
Tel: +604-6533145 / 6533751 / 6533158
Fax: +604-6569122
(Attn: Mr. Syed Yusof Syed Kechik)
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For further enquiries, please contact:
Dean
School of Languages, Literacies and Translation
Universiti Sains Malaysia
11800 Minden
Penang Malaysia
Tel: +604-6533145 / 6533751 / 6533158
Fax: +604-6569122
(Attn: Mr. Syed Yusof Syed Kechik)
email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it