C1.2 – Advanced English Language

In this course, you'll be joining us right on campus at the University of Jordan. We’ll meet face-to-face, engaging directly in our university’s environment. It’s all about hands-on learning and real-time interaction, so you’ll get the full benefit of being right here with us.

Course Description

Reach the pinnacle of advanced communication. Building on C1.1, this course is designed to consolidate your competence and guide you toward the upper-advanced threshold. You will develop the mastery required to follow extended discourse on specialized and unfamiliar topics, even when the logic is implied rather than stated. By engaging with academic publications, literary works, and professional discourse, you will learn to master register shifts and appreciate the finest linguistic subtleties. This level focuses on rhetorical purpose, audience awareness, and the ability to communicate with near-native precision and sophistication.

Learning Objectives & Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Detailed Comprehension: Understand lengthy, complex texts in detail across a wide range of genres, identifying subtle shifts in register and tone.

• Rapid-Fire Fluency: Follow nuanced, fast-paced debates and identify implicit attitudes, relationships, and intentions between speakers.

• Adaptable Expression: Express complex ideas with spontaneous fluency, effortlessly adapting your style and register to suit any professional or social audience.

• Sophisticated Synthesis: Produce high-level written work that evaluates, synthesizes, and expands upon complex ideas with structural elegance.

• Cultural Intelligence: Interpret cultural, regional, and idiomatic subtleties in authentic discourse, allowing for seamless integration into English-speaking environments.

Prerequisites

• Completion of CEFR C1.1 or equivalent advanced proficiency.

• Learners should already be comfortable recognizing implicit meanings and using language flexibly for social and professional purposes.

Course Format & Delivery

• Advanced Seminars: Critical discussions on specialized topics and current global affairs.

• Rhetorical Workshops: Presentation and writing workshops focused on audience impact and tone.

• Collaborative Projects: Peer-reviewed assignments and independent research projects to simulate real-world professional standards.