Volta offers Courses in English Language at three levels. Courses involve 60 hours of teaching from mid November until late April and are arranged in 30 sessions of 2 hours each with two sessions per week.The poster of English Courses can be downloaded here. A flyer of the Course can be downloaded here.
The College has organised English language Courses independently in 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 and jointly with EDiSU in 2015/16 and 2016/17. Volta offers three levels of English Courses shaped on Cambridge English. Volta students entering the English Courses take an online test, paid by College, through Oxford University in order to be assigned to the appropriate class. This test is used at Volta both as a placement test as well as an exit test in order to neasure progress.
The syllabus employed at Volta is Cambridge English and the teaching is structured according to the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The aim of the English Courses at Volta is to take all Volta students to a C1 level, the one required for postgraduate studies in UK or US Universities and for employment. Students work toward the International English Language Test System (IELTS) examination. This examination is expensive (the cost is in excess of € 200) and is accepted by Universities only if the test has been sat in the last 12 months. Thus College studens are encouraged to sit the IELTS examination only in their final year when they have reached C1 level and are in the process of applying for postgraduate training or employment.
Every student at Volta is expected to study a language and currently has a choice of English (3 levels), French (1 level) and German (1 level). Enrolment fee for 2017/18 is expected to be € 100 per Course.
