Grammatical competence of IFA UŁ students
Grammatical competence of IFA UŁ students

Summary/Abstract: Each year some 50-60 new students are admitted to IFA UŁ (Institute of English Studies, University of Łodź) to study linguistics and literature. Admission is by entrance examination and successful candidates constitute ca. 40% of the applicants. It is usual for the candidates to have completed a basic 4-year (high school) course in English and not unusual for this to have been supplemented by some additional experience in English. In addition to courses in theoretical and applied linguistics, British and American literature, and British and American history and culture, all taught in English, the students all take a set of English language courses (practical phonetics, comprehension, composition, conversational English, grammar, and translation from and into English). During the ten fifteen-week terms at the Institute the students take an average of 10-12 hours a week of literature, linguistics and history courses and 9 hours of language work. Then there are the videos they watch, the tapes they listen to, the essays they write and the books they read as homework or extracurricular activities which, taken together with the coursework, represents quite a substantial amount of exposure to the language.

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