2024/2025
Английский язык для общих академических целей. Основной курс - 2
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Занина Елена Леонидовна,
Зизина Анастасия Александровна,
Каменская Ольга Олеговна,
Капусткина Елена Сергеевна,
Катасонова Наталья Владимировна,
Макаренко Виктор Петрович,
Мищук Анастасия Михайловна,
Пелевина Ирина Анатольевна,
Питра Татьяна Георгиевна,
Пронина Мария Владимировна,
Шапиро Элина Диаматовна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Course Syllabus
Abstract
«English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate–2» course is designed for the first-year HSE undergraduates to consistently build their understanding and use of specialized academic discourses for tertiary education and research as well as intercultural communication at a B2+ level. In compliance with “Concept of Development of Foreign-Language Communicative Competence of HSE 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, and digital literacy. Specifically, the course is targeted at building students’ core receptive (reading and listening) and productive (writing and speaking) knowledge and skills belonging to the academic domain at B2+ (CEFR). This allows to extract and process key information for further integrating multiple source materials and presenting coherent and cohesive analytical oral (monologue, group discussion, presentation) and written (‘opinion’ and ‘advantages and disadvantages’ essays) texts. Essentially, the course comprises multiple texts and tasks employed in mainstream academic environments and practices. To successfully master the programme materials, the course provides for independent work on the online platform SMART LMS. There are no blocking controls.
Learning Objectives
- The course focuses on enhancing essential analytical and language skills to deal with basic reading, listening, writing, and speaking assignments in English for academic purposes at the Upper-Intermediate (B2+) level, which would meet students’ immediate academic needs. While catering to different learning styles, the course fosters autonomous learning, team building and digital literacy competences. To achieve these goals, students are expected to further enhance their knowledge of key concepts and conventions pertaining to the academic English as well as develop academic competences; gain awareness of different writing genres as well as assignment types pertaining to their academic and professional scope of activity (comparison and contrast; describing processes; cause and effect; narration; description); examine and apply differing strategies to reading, listening, writing and speaking assignments depending on the target audience/ interlocutor; purpose; topic and organization requirements; develop skills of locating, organizing, analyzing, evaluating and integrating the necessary sources and ideas to fulfill their academic and professional tasks; increase awareness of and apply appropriate reading, writing, listening, speaking strategies, and academic language command to extract and analyze necessary information and produce relevant oral and written responses, depending on the target audience/ interlocutor, purpose, topic and organization requirements; gain awareness of key debates pertaining to the topics of “Money and commerce”, Zoology”, “History”, “Chemical engineering” at a B2+ level (CEFR); reflect and foster their individual style of learning as well as soft skills and digital literacy while contributing to collaborative problem-solving activities as a team member.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students distinguish English academic writing style from other forms of writing.
- Students demonstrate awareness of key academic vocabulary and functional grammar at B2+ level (CEFR).
- Students define key principles of academic text organization and structures.
- Students demonstrate awareness of and respond to key contemporary debates within the scope of the given Course.
- Students employ active reading and listening strategies to suit text type and reader/ listener purpose.
- Students produce coherent and cohesive written texts, such as “Discuss both views and express your opinion” essays and “Discuss advantages and disadvantages” essays.
- Students employ argumentation to produce an academic monologue, deliver a presentation or engage in problem-solving discussions and group debates.
Course Contents
- Unit 1. Money and Commerce
- Zoology. Major issues in biodiversity preservation.
- Medieval culture. The value of historical sites.
- Chemical engineering. Ecology. Factors contributing to natural disasters and effective design solutions to prevent them.
Assessment Elements
- Oral Assessment (OA)Oral Assessment includes minimum 1 monologue, 1 Q&A discussion
- Written Assessment (WA)Written Assessment includes minimum 1 listening test. minimum 1 reading test, minimum 1 essay
- Student Independent Work Assessment (IWA)The elements of independent work cannot be retaken.
- Final Assessment (FA)The interim exam lasts 70 minutes. The exam is written paper-and-pen test and is aimed at checking whether the student can demonstrate the acquisition of the learning objectives set. The exam consists of two parts, i.e. Reading and Writing that weigh 40% and 60% respectively in the total mark for the exam.
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.3 * Final Assessment (FA) + 0.2 * Oral Assessment (OA) + 0.25 * Student Independent Work Assessment (IWA) + 0.25 * Written Assessment (WA)
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
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- Academic vocabulary in use. 50 units of academic vocabulary reference and practice : self-study and classroom use, McCarthy M., O'Dell F., 2011
- Academic vocabulary in use. 50 units of academic vocabulary reference and practice : self-study and classroom use, McCarthy M., O'Dell F., 2011
- Academic writing for graduate students : essential tasks and skills, Swales, J. M., 2012
- Academic Writing Skills 3, Student's Book, 140 p., Chin, P., Reid, S., Wray, S., Yamazaki, Y., 2014
- Academic Writing Skills 3, Teacher's Manual, 82 p., Blalock, Z., Chin, P., Reid, S., Wray, S., Yamazaki, Y., 2013
- Cambridge Academic English : Upper Intermediate, An integrated skills course for EAP : Class Audio CD, Course consultant : M. McCarthy, 1 оптич. диск (Class Audio CD), Hewings, M., 2012
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- University success: reading : advanced, Eickhoff, L., 2018
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