English Language in Interdisciplinary Contexts

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

5

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of Foreign Languages

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

3 year, 1-4 module

Instructors

Алешин Виталий Сергеевич

Danilina, Kristina

Mazurova, Daria

Lutkova, Elena

Смирнова Анна Георгиевна

Tsygunova, Mariia

Chermoshentseva, Ksenia

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course aims at the development of students' communicative competence in the English language above C1 level. After completing it, students will be able to understand and critically analyse complex, informationally dense texts on a variety of topics including technology, medicine, art, scientific exploration, etc. Students will significantly enlarge their topic-related vocabulary and master some complex grammatical and syntactic structures. By the end of the course students will be able to produce analytic texts of a variety of genres in oral and written formats.

Learning Objectives

• can understand extended discourse on abstract and complex topics beyond their field of interest, including when it is not clearly structured, when ideas are signalled implicitly or when pronunciation is not standard
• can understand all texts (incl. abstract, structurally complex, highly colloquial, literary and non-literary), understanding subtle distinctions of style and register
• can produce clear, smoothly flowing, well-structured discourse with an effective logical structure which helps the recipient to notice and remember significant points
• can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on complex subjects, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion
• can produce clear, well-structured texts of complex subjects, underlining the relevant salient issues, expanding and supporting points of view at some length with subsidiary points, reasons and relevant examples, and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion
• can express themselves fluently and spontaneously, almost effortlessly; has a good command of a broad lexical repertoire allowing gaps to be readily overcome with circumlocutions; has a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms with awareness of connotative levels of meaning
• can convey clearly and fluently in well-structured language the significant ideas in long, complex texts, whether or not they relate to their own fields of interest, conveying evaluative aspects and most nuances precisely, and pointing out sociocultural implications (e.g. use of register, understatement, irony and sarcasm)
• can interpret and describe clearly and reliably various forms of empirical data and visually organised information from conceptually complex research concerning academic or professional topics

Expected Learning Outcomes

• students will be able to use non-gradable adjectives / future forms / the subjunctive mood / relative clauses in written and oral speech
• students will be able to give a persuasive speech and write a response to a quote
• students will be able to use comparison patterns and the correct order of adjectives
• students will be able to create a voiceover of a video on the topic and describe a flowchart
• students will be able to use the passive voice / reported speech / gerunds and infinitives after verbs in oral and written speech
• students will be able to tell a personal story related to sport and to participate in a debate on the topic
• students will be able to use modal verbs for advice and reproach /structures to describe habits in the past / participle clauses
• students will be able to participate in a roleplay and deliver a summary of 2 texts on the same topic
• students will be able to use conditional structures, the sentences with "if only" and "I wish", modal verbs in writing and in speech
• students will be able to present a case and give their opinion on it and record a DIY podcast
• students will be able to analyse and describe visual information
• students will be able to use past tenses and inversion in writing and in speech
• students will be able to tell a picture-cued story and to write a commentary on a paragraph
• students will participate in a collaborative project and write a piece of critique
• students will be able to use C1-C2 vocabulary in speech and in writing
• students will be able to differentiate between the shades of meaning of some C1-C2 synonyms
• students will be able to accurately use a variety of grammatical structures in speech and in writing

Course Contents

• Space
• Environment
• Sport
• Medicine
• Technology
• Law
• Creativity

Assessment Elements

• Class Participation 1
  Class participation, homework completion and ongoing quizzes are assessed. If a student is absent and has a valid excuse such as a sick leaf, they can get 1 point for class participation provided they hand-in completed self-study and homework. It should be done within two weeks after they return back to studies. Otherwise, they get a "0" for class participation.
• Spoken production 1
• Written production 1
• Semester test 1
• Oral Exam 1
• Class Participation 2
  Class participation, homework completion and ongoing quizzes are assessed. If a student is absent and has a valid excuse such as a sick leaf, they can get 1 point for class participation provided they hand-in completed self-study and homework. It should be done within two weeks after they return back to studies. Otherwise, they get a "0" for class participation.
• Spoken production 2
• Semester Test 2
• LMS 1
  revision of materials in SmartLMS
• LMS 2
• Written production 2
• Oral Exam 2
  student summarises a text and argues their opinion on the ideas expressed in it

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.25 * Class Participation 1 + 0.05 * LMS 1 + 0.2 * Oral Exam 1 + 0.1 * Semester test 1 + 0.2 * Spoken production 1 + 0.2 * Written production 1
• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.25 * Class Participation 2 + 0.05 * LMS 2 + 0.2 * Oral Exam 2 + 0.1 * Semester Test 2 + 0.2 * Spoken production 2 + 0.2 * Written production 2

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Продвинутый английский язык для гуманитарных направлений = Advanced English for Humanities : учебник / С. В. Боголепова, Л. К. Рэйчел, А. В. Бакулев [и др.] ; под ред. С. В. Боголеповой, Л. К. Рэйчел. — Москва : КноРус, 2023. — 428 с. — ISBN 978-5-406-10545-0. — URL: https://book.ru/book/945953 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024). — Текст : электронный.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Ковалик, Л. Д. English Grammar. Reference and Practice : учебное пособие / Л. Д. Ковалик. — Магниторгорск : МаГК имени М. И. Глинки, 2019. — 132 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/164896 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Authors

• SMIRNOVA ANNA GEORGIEVNA
• Bogolepova Svetlana Viktorovna
• TSYGUNOVA MARIYA MIKHAYLOVNA