2024/2025
Английский язык для специальных целей. Филология - 2
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to students of the BA and MA degree curricula while mastering the optional course of English in accordance with the Concept of developing English-speaking communicative competence of students of Higher School of Economics — National Research University (https://www.hse.ru/docs/381549301.html). The goal of this course is to help Philology programme students master a range of linguistic and text analysis skills. Students will be introduced to the close reading technique as well as basic linguistic concepts and literary theory in English. The course is structured as a propaedeutic step necessary for students taking further courses in English. Students will read and comment upon 16-20th c. texts of various difficulty levels. At the end of the semester students are supposed to present individual and group projects on text analysis.
Learning Objectives
- To introduce students to the basic principles of working with English prose texts of various kinds, including both literary sources and secondary literature.
- To prepare students for further academic activities in English as part of their HSE bachelor’s programme (i.e., Critical Thinking and Academic Writing course and other disciplines in English, MOOCs, etc.) and in a wider English-speaking academic environment.
- To improve critical reading skills, enabling students to analyse different writing strategies.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students use electronic databases (i.e. JSTOR, ProQuest, Google Scholar, etc.) to shape the research bibliography.
- Students are able to produce their own written commentary to the given literary text, using the basic principles of English academic writing; have a good command of written and spoken English language corresponding to the level B2-C1, i.e., know and use effectively a variety of grammar structures and vocabulary, spell words correctly; identify and use professional vocabulary. Text genres available for the student: Summary; Essay (opinion, discussion); E-mail (business correspondence); CV.
- Students find and analyze academic texts to assess their relevance to their own research; articulate and assess the author’s thesis, purposes, audiences, writing strategies, contexts, bias, and credibility. Students can follow academic lectures and debates. Listening skills: Understanding dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; Understanding lectures; Using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details); Note-taking.
- Students prepare their own text analysis and orally present its summary in a clear way. Speaking skills: Dialogue on general topics (active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing); Monologue: descriptive/informative/reasoning.
- Students read English literary texts from different periods (16th-20th c.); use different types of dictionaries and grammars; know the difference between various types of critical editions. The additional results are: 1) Understanding specialised complex longer texts/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems (CEFR); 2) Understanding text structure; 3) Using basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details).
Course Contents
- An Introduction to Critical Reading of English Literature (16th-20th c.).
- Basic Concepts of Text Analysis
- Talking about Different Opinions: Reading Secondary Literature
- Finding Academic Texts: An Introduction to Research Databases
- Presenting Ideas: Final Projects
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Independent Work Assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assesment + 0.25 * Written Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Academic writing : from paragraph to essay, Zemach, D. E., 2005
- English for academic study: Reading : course book, Slaght, J., 2006
- Presenting in English : how to give successful presentations, Powell, M., 2002
- The Cambridge history of early modern English literature, , 2004
- The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature, , 2012
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- English for presentations, Grussendorf, M., 2007