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2023/2024

Английский язык для общих академических целей. Профессиональный курс – 2

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для Вашей будущей карьеры»
Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Статус: Факультатив
Когда читается: 3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса
Язык: английский
Кредиты: 5
Контактные часы: 80

Course Syllabus

Abstract

«English for General Academic Purposes. Proficiency Course–2» is designed for first-year HSE undergraduates to enhance their English skills in specialized academic discourses at the proficiency level. In compliance with The Concept of Development of Foreign Language Communicative Competence of HSE University Undergraduate, Specialist and Graduate Students and «Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics», the course aims at developing English-language communicative, integrated, critical and creative thinking competences. Students should get no less than 75 points as a result of the Midterm Test to join the course. The course comprises three general academic topics crucial for navigating modern sociocultural contexts – biology, humanities, and environmental engineering. Students are expected to master different receptive and productive skills at the C1+ CEFR level, such as understanding and utilizing cohesion in a text, recognizing ambiguity and different speaking styles, making appropriate stylistic choices, understanding text references to visuals and interpreting them, participating in discussions, encouraging participation, preparing and delivering presentations, developing their own ideas, integrating, and producing coherent and cohesive oral and written texts. The acquisition of the skills is checked with the help of written tests (in vocabulary, grammar, reading, and listening), written works (two essay types – opinion and discussion), oral works (a discussion, a presentation, and a monologue), and student independent work in class and at home (participation in discussions and online work on SmartLMS). The offline exam (final assessment) checks students’ ability to deal with reading texts within the academic context and producing comprehensible essays. To successfully master the course, students are encouraged to work independently on SmartLMS. There are no blocking elements of assessment.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • - to improve student’s ability to read and understand journal articles, texts, lectures from different perspectives;
  • - to increase student’s comprehension of spoken English;
  • - to strengthen student’s speaking and writing skills in a range of different disciplines;
  • - to systematically and progressively develop students’ academic skills, language, and critical thinking;
  • - to provide material for students to revise, consolidate and extend their command of English grammar and vocabulary;
  • - to develop students’ reading skills to enable them to skim texts for the main idea, to scan texts for specific information, to interpret texts for inferences, attitudes and styles, to deduce meanings from the context;
  • - to develop students’ listening skills to enable them to understand and apply specific information from the input;
  • - to develop students’ general capacity to a level that enables them to use English in their professional and academic.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • - to listen to the text using different strategies of understanding the information;
  • - to read with a large degree of independence, adapting style and speed of reading to different texts and purposes, and using appropriate sources of information;
  • - to express oneself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions;
  • - to interact flawlessly and efficiently with another speaker in a dialogue;
  • - to know and use advanced vocabulary from the topics of sociology, economics, biology, humanities and environmental engineering;
  • - to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices;
  • - to make presentations;
  • - to use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
  • - to write an essay (opinion, discussion);
  • - reading: understand cohesion in a text; recognize patterns of cohesion; understand cohesion in descriptions
  • - speaking: participate in extended discourse; respond to and discuss controversial topics; utilize interrogatives and declaratives to gain, confirm, and assert support
  • - writing: create coherence and cohesion; revise writing; analyze organizational patterns; use language to add cohesion; use outlines and graphic organizers
  • - reading: develop reading fluency; increase fluency; recognize ambiguity
  • - speaking: recognize speaking styles; identify emphatic argumentation; utilize succinct argumentation; identify and utilize markers for organizational structure; utilize words and phrases to create cohesion in discussions and presentations
  • - listening: listen to an academic presentation
  • - language skills: understand nominalization; analyze the rhetorical context; use appropriate adverbials to fit the rhetorical context; recognize and use rhetorical techniques
  • - reading: understand text references to visuals; refer to visual data within and beyond a reading; identify the purposes of visuals
  • - speaking: interpret visuals; connect visuals to a lecture; communicate about the meaning of the visual
  • - listening: recognize signposting language to help follow the lecture/talk
  • - writing: synthesize text into a visual; use visuals to present information in writing; edit text and visuals; relate visuals to text
  • - language skills: recognize and learning multiword vocabulary items; examine sentence structure and subject-verb agreement
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Unit 1. Sociology (the human experience).
  • Unit 2. Economics (money and commerce).
  • Unit 3. Biology (the science of nature).
  • Unit 4. Humanities (arts and letters).
  • Unit 5. Environmental engineering (structural science).
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Written Assessment (WA) 0.25
    Written Assessment icludes written tasks completed in class (reading and listening tests, summaries, essays).
  • non-blocking Oral Assessment (OA) 0.2
    Oral assessment includes a monologue on a given topic, a presentation and a discussion.
  • non-blocking Independent Work Assessment (IWA) 0.25
    Independent work assessment includes work during the seminars, homework, online work.
  • non-blocking Final Assessment (FA) 0.3
    "The final exam is held in class within 10 days before the exam period. The release of examination papers: during the session. The exam consists of 2 parts: reading (40%) and writing (60%) respectively in the total mark for the exam. 0 points in case of cheating. Retaking exams: till the 15th of October 2024. Time limit: 70 minutes. Tasks complexity: В2 / C1. Grading formula: R*0,4 +W*0,6 = 10.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 4th module
    0.3 * Final Assessment (FA) 0.3 + 0.25 * Independent Work Assessment (IWA) 0.25 + 0.2 * Oral Assessment (OA) 0.2 + 0.25 * Written Assessment (WA) 0.25
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Berry, R. (2018). English Grammar : A Resource Book for Students (Vol. 2nd edition). [Place of publication not identified]: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1753147
  • University success: oral communication : advanced, Cavage, C., 2018
  • University success: writing : advanced, Norloff, C., 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Oxford grammar for EAP : english grammar and practice for academic purposes with answers, Paterson, K., 2013
  • University success; reading; transition level, Zwier, L., 2017

Authors

  • SOLDATOVA ELENA IGOREVNA
  • SILDIMIROVA MARINA ALEKSANDROVNA