The goal of the course Rights and Responsibilities is to help adult
learners use oral and written discourse to deal competently with
real-life situations in mattersrelated to their rights and
responsibilities.
This course develops adult learners’ language proficiency by
involving them in a variety of speaking, listening, reading and writing
activities that provide adults with an opportunity to put language
skills into practice in situations related to exercising their basic rights
and fulfilling their obligations in different areas of their lives. It is not
the intention of this course to make adults experts either in complex
legal matters or legal discourse, but rather to provide them with the
opportunity to construct the language resources they need to
consult appropriate agencies and documentation that are accessible
to the average citizen.
By the end of the course, adult learners will be able to understand
and produce simple informative and expressive texts related to their
rights and responsibilities. Theywill, for example, understand
booklets and brochures, basic contracts as well as lectures and
short television debates and commentaries. They will produce
letters of complaint or inquiry and simple opinion texts in order to
obtain and give pertinent legal information and advice. They will also
be able to request assistance, express their needs, share their
concerns, and exchange their opinions and points of views with
others about matters pertaining to their rights and responsibilities.