Practical Course of the English Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Practice of Oral and Written Speech

Bachelor 2020/2021

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Type: Compulsory course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)

Area of studies: Linguistics

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

Where: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1 year, 1-4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Листопадова Мария Владимировна, Иванова Юлия Владимировна, Широкова Светлана Юрьевна, Иванова Юлия Владимировна, Yulia Aleshina, Eliza Aloyan, Alina Budnikova, Red Bushetara, Mariana Dobrovolskaya, Anastasia Filipskaya, Yulia Grevtseva, Kseniia Kindenova, Maria Loktionova, Marina Anatolyevna Markushova, Natalia Mironenko, Ekaterina Molchanova, Natalya Putilina, Sergey Ryabchun, Tatiana Sidelnikova, Elena Terekhova, Ksenia Vasilyuk, Tatiana Zelenova

Language: English

ECTS credits: 14

Contact hours: 268

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Abstract

The course “Practical Course of the English Language” is designed for the first-year students of the Undergaduate Programme “Foreign Languages and Cross-cultural Communication” and is comprised by three aspects:“Practice of Oral and Written Speech”, "Grammar" and "Phonetics". The main aim of the course is to develop students’ communicative competence in all skills and aspects at B2+/C1 levels, with the elements of C2 level, and prepare students to use English as a means of professional communication.

Learning Objectives

The principle goal is formation of professional and academic competencies (including instrumental and social and personal competencies), defined in the Education Standard of HSE in the field of study 45.03.02 “Linguistics”. The main goal is the development of foreign language communicative competence, including subcompetences: linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence, discursive competence, strategic competence, sociocultural competence, social competence.

Expected Learning Outcomes

know vocabulary items of B2+ and vocabulary items of C1, with the elements of C2 level used for the production of oral and written speech on the topics specified in the programme of the discipline
know the criteria for the acquisition of the vocabulary items
know the main types of listening and the strategies specific to different listening types
know the strategies of taking notes to develop note-taking skills
choose and use different reading strategies
take part in the discussions on the topics related to the unit of the programme
know the types of dictionaries (collocation dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms, phraseology dictionaries) and their importance in a learning process
plan and organise reading and listening self-study activities
know the features of a paragraph and essay organisation
use target vocabulary items to produce oral and written speech on the topic
know communicative strategies of participating in a discussion
communicative strategies of presentation delivery
establish rapport with the audience
know the main types of reading and the strategies specific to different reading types
to know the grammatical categories of the verb;
to know the none verbal forms of the verb and their functions in a sentence;
to differentiate the use of infinitive and gerund;
to be able to use none-finite forms of the verbs in speech;
to know the difference between modal verbs and other verbs;
to express different attitudes by using modal verbs;
to have the skills to choose and use various grammatical patterns and techniques in the translation from/to the native/target language to achieve the ultimate communicative effect considering the character of the translated text
to have the skills to create oral and written discourse in the target language
to have the skills to use different language means to achieve a communicative purpose
be able to demonstrate the understanding of basic phenomena in segmental and suprasegmental phonetics, required to form pronunciation skills
be able to demonstrate the understanding of phonetic systems of English and Russian
be able to demonstrate the understanding of peculiarities of the articulatory basis of the English language compared with that of the Russian language
be able to demonstrate the understanding of the articulatory features of English vowels and consonants, rules of word and sentence stress
be able to demonstrate the understanding of basic intonation patterns of English and their functions
be able to demonstrate the understanding of the rules of phonostylistic variation of phonetic means
be able to demonstrate the ability to analyze oral texts in respect of phonetic phenomena and to transcribe them
be able to demonstrate the ability to use phonetic means in combination with lexico-grammatical means to achieve communicative goals and verbal influence, involving professional communication
be able to develop the ability to bring out and correct pronunciation mistakes in the flow of speech
be able to expose skills of phonetically correct speaking according to the modern pronunciation standard
be able to expose skills of reading and speaking in monologues and dialogues
know the strategies for listening for gist and listening for specific information
know the strategies for survey, skim and scan reading
know main types of listening and the strategies specific to different listening types
know main types of reading and the strategies specific to different reading types
be able to plan and organise an outline for the production of a descriptive monologue
be able to use discourse markers for the logical organisation of a descriptive monologue
be able to use target vocabulary items to produce a descriptive monologue
be able to write a formal email
be able to use target grammatical structures to produce a descriptive monologue

Course Contents

Topic 1. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Module: Practice of Speech. Education, learning and intelligence.
Topic 2. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Practice of Speech. Medicine. Health and Fitness.
Topic 3. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Practice of Speech. Changing cities. Architecture.
Topic 4. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Practice of Speech. Our World: Environment, Globalisation, World Heritage.
Topic 5. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Practice of Speech. Technology.
Unit 1. Practical Grammar. Morphology. Finite Verbs. Tenses. Passive Voice
Tenses (Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous).
Unit 3. Practical Grammar. Modal Verbs. Oblique Moods. Noun.
Modal Verbs (Can, May, Must, Be, Have to, Ought to, Need, Should, Shall, Would, Will). Oblique Moods (Subjunctive, Conditional). Noun (Number, Gender, Case).
Topic 5. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Phonetics. Phonostylistic differentiation of oral discourse.
Phonostylistic analysis of oral discourse. Development of phonetic reading skills. Development of phonetic speaking skills (in the form of monologue and dialogue). Colloquial phonetic style. Informational phonetic style.
Topic 1. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Phonetics. Introductory-correction course.
Organs of speech and their functions. Vowels and consonants. Phonetic phenomena. Peculiarities of the articulatory basis of the English language. Breathing and articulatory exercises. Phonetic transcription. Intonation on the staves.
Topic 3. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Phonetics. Word stress. Syllable division.
Rules of syllable division. Degrees of word stress. Placement of word stress. Word stress in compound words. Rhythm in English.
Unit 2. Practical Grammar. None-finite Verbs.
None-finite Verbs (Infinitive, Gerund, Complex Subject, Complex Object, Participle I, Participle II, Gerundial and Half-gerundial Complexes).
Unit 4. Practical Grammar. Article. Adjective. Pronoun.
Article (with Proper Names, Uncountable Nouns, Degree Words, Descriptive and Limiting Attributes). Adjective (Degrees of Comparison, Intensifiers of the Degrees, Substantivization). Pronoun (12 Classes).
Topic 2. Practical course of the first foreign language (1st year). Phonetics. Articulation of English vowels and consonants.
Pronunciation of vowels. Pronunciation of consonants. Aspiration. Assimilation. Reduction. Elision. Nasal plosion. Lateral plosion. Loss of plosion. Linking [r]. Sounds in connected speech. Developing pronunciation skills.

Assessment Elements

Exam Grammar
The examination in Practical Grammar in Module 2 will be held in LMS. To do this, students need to have access to the site https://lms.hse.ru/, as well as a login and a password to enter. Headphones and a microphone are not required. Students can enter the platform well in advance, but the assignments must be started at the set time. Students, who start the test earlier than the specified time, causing the system to crash, will receive 0 points for the whole test. If during the writing of the test, the Internet does not work for some time, the student continues the test until the connection is restored. If the connection does not resume, the student takes screenshots of their answers, written in the absence of Internet connection, and sends them to the teacher. If the answers for the task on translation overlap for 80% or more among different students of one group, 0 points are awarded for this task to all the students who have such a coincidence. Any applications sent after the end of the test writing time will not be accepted.
Exam Phonetics
Examples of Final Assessment: 1. Read the given joke; 2. Retell the given joke; 3. Dialogue by heart; 4. Reading sentences in accordance with the given intonation pattern. The final grade is calculated according to the formula: TG = O practice of speech * 0,25 + O grammar * 0,25 + O phonetics * 0,2 + O exam * 0,3 Требования к проведению экзамена онлайн: к экзамену необходимо подключиться за 15 минут до начала. Экзамен проводится в устном формате. Для участия в экзамене студент должен включить камеру и микрофон. На экзамене студенту необходимо будет выполнить 3 задания: прочитать шутку, пересказать ее и рассказать диалог наизусть. Во время экзамена студенту разрешено использовать ручку и чистый лист бумаги в качестве черновика. Запрещено общаться (в социальных сетях, с людьми в комнате), передавать свой вариант экзамена другим людям для его выполнения. Процедура пересдачи аналогична процедуре сдачи.
Exam Practice of Speech
In Module 3, Practice of Speech examination is taken on the examination week. The exam consists of two parts. A written part includes a lexical test. There are 40 questions in the test. The grade is calculated according to the following scale: 40p. – 10; 38-39p. – 9; 35-37p. – 8; 32-34p. – 7; 29-31p. – 6; 25-28p. – 5; 20-24p. – 4;15-20p. – 3; 10-14p. – 2; 4-9p. – 1; 0-3p. –0. An oral part includes 3 tasks: monologues, questions and answers, discussions. Oral part includes monologues, 3 questions and answers, discussion. For monologue and questions/answers part students form pairs. For discussions students form groups of 4. The maximum points for each exam element is 10: Monologue – 10 points. Questions and answers – 9 points + 1 point for active vocabulary. Discussion – 10 points. The Exam Grade is calculated according to the following formula - G exam= (G lexical test + G monologue+G questions/answers+G discussion)/4.
Grammar
The ongoing assessment in Grammar is calculated according to the formula: О = 0,2*Оtests + 0,2*Оcontact work + 0,1*ОLMS + 0,5*Оfinal test. The ongoing assessment (ОGrammar) is based on the following elements of control: 1) tests (О test = (О test 1 + О test 2 + …….) / О number of tests); 2) active contact work in class 3) tests in LMS; 4) final tests. At the end of each module the teacher indicates the date of deadline for checking the tests in LMS. If the tasks have not been completed by this date, the grades will be counted off, e.g. if a student got 7 out of 10-scale grading system but 5 compulsory tests were not done then the grade is 2 (7-5).
Phonetics
The teacher assesses the students` work during the classes: participation in dialogues and discussions, monologues and presentations, role-plays, written tasks fulfillment. The teacher assesses students` independent work in terms of homework completion of extensive reading and listening tasks. The grades are recorded in the register (decimal system 0-10), and the mean is calculated at the end of the year – Oaccum. The accumulated grade for a module includes the result of the ongoing control in the following way: Oaccum= 0,8* Оaud+ 0.2* Оtest Where Oaud is calculated as a sum of all forms of the ongoing control provisioned in the GSP (General Study Plan) and carried out during the classes.
Practice of Speech
The Current Grade in Practice of Speech is calculated according to the formula: О pr.o.sp. = 0,1*О contact work + 0,3*О quizzes + 0,3*О speaking/writing + 0,3*О final test 1. Contact work – student’s work in class comprised by the following constituent parts: attendance, active classroom participation, homework completion. The maximum grade for this type of assessment is 3. To calculate the final grade for this type of assessment a percentage formula is applied: О CW = О cumulative * 10/О max. points; 2. Quizzes – lexical or academic style tests which are aimed at controlling new knowledge and skills formation, timely correction of reaching strategies. The maximum grade for this type of assessment is 10. To calculate the final (cumulative) grade for this type of assessment the following formula is applied: О quizzes = (О quiz 1 + О quiz 2 + …….)/О total number; 3. Speaking and writing activities – monologues, debates, discussions, role-plays, round-table discussions, projects, written products. The maximum grade for this type of assessment is 10. To calculate the final (cumulative) grade for this type of assessment the following formula is applied: О speaking/writing = (О speaking 1 + О speaking 2 + …….)/О total number; 4. Final tests – the lexical test on the entire Unit. The maximum grade for this type of assessment is 10. To calculate the final (cumulative) grade for this type of assessment the following formula is applied: О test = (О final test 1 + О final test 2 + …….)/О total number.

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (2 module)
0.3 * Exam Grammar + 0.25 * Grammar + 0.2 * Phonetics + 0.25 * Practice of Speech
Interim assessment (3 module)
0.3 * Exam Practice of Speech + 0.25 * Grammar + 0.2 * Phonetics + 0.25 * Practice of Speech
Interim assessment (4 module)
0.3 * Exam Phonetics + 0.25 * Grammar + 0.2 * Phonetics + 0.25 * Practice of Speech

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Gussenhoven, C. (2004). The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=164285
New headway Academic skills: reading, writing, and study skills: level 3 : student's book, Philpot, S., 2007
Wallwork, A. (2016). English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style. New York: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=528290
Грамматика современного английского языка : учебник для вузов, Крылова, И. П., 2017
Гуревич В.В. - Практическая грамматика английского языка. Упражнения и комментарии: учеб.пособие - Издательство "ФЛИНТА" - 2017 - 292с. - ISBN: 978-5-89349-464-8 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ЛАНЬ - URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/100010
Дубовский, Ю. А. Английская коммуникативная фонетика [Электронный ресурс] : учебное пособие / Ю. А. Дубовский, Б. Б. Докуто, Л. Н. Переяшкина. — 2-е изд., стер. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2019. — 558 с. – ISBN 978-5-9765-1977-0. – Режим доступа: https://new.znanium.com/catalog/product/1047927
Комаров А.С. - A Practical Grammar of English for Students. Практическая грамматика английского языка для студентов: учеб.пособие - Издательство "ФЛИНТА" - 2017 - 243с. - ISBN: 978-5-89349-848-6 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ЛАНЬ - URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/100033

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Self, R. (2016). Giving effective academic presentations. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EB2D8CDD
Дубовский Ю.А., Докуто Б.Б., Переяшкина Л.Н. - Английская коммуникативная фонетика: учебное пособие - Издательство "ФЛИНТА" - 2019 - 558с. - ISBN: 978-5-9765-1977-0 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ЛАНЬ - URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/122603

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