2024/2025
Английский язык для специальных целей. Теоретическая лингвистика - 1
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
«English for Specific Purposes. General Linguistics – 1» is an elective course intended for first-year students who are training with the major in linguistics. It is to be administered as one of the set of courses of English in accordance with the Concept of developing English-speaking communicative competence of students of the Higher School of Economics. The aims of the course are (1) to develop academic English competence on the basis of getting familiar with academic written and oral production in English, and (2) to advance HSE students’ research skills in the area of their specialization, i.e. linguistics. The course focuses on core tasks relevant to all academic purposes, such as working out the main points of an academic text or lecture; presenting the summary of the information received, taking into consideration positions of all contributors to the area in focus; and extending one’s own scope of English communicative competence and professional vocabulary in the area of linguistics and linguistic studies as a means to develop academic writing and listening skills. The students will be expected to produce critical, analytic or evaluative texts in speech and writing throughout the course. The syllabus covers concepts and key vocabulary necessary for discussing linguistics as well as words and phrases commonly used in academic English. Finally, the course is to highlight the skills and academic norms that are required for participation in linguistic seminars and tutorials in English language, on the one hand, and in international academic events, on the other. As a result, students are expected to present their group and individual projects orally and in writing throughout the course.
The main components of the course are studying parts of the book by Edward de Chazal & Sam McCarter Oxford EAP: A course in English for academic purposes; watching video lectures devoted to separate areas of linguistics; listening to radio programmes with discussions of the state of English language; practising areas of English grammar and English vocabulary; reading linguistic academic papers in English followed by presentation of students’ summaries or discussions of the scholarly arguments in the papers; presentations in class of students’ own linguistic projects.