2023/2024

English for Specific Academic Purposes. Ancient World - 3

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1-3 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 52

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to students of the curriculum for bachelor's degree while mastering the optional course of English in accordance with the Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE students. The course is designed to develop foreign-language communicative and professional competencies. The course is focused on basic professional terminology and knowledge of oriental and classical studies. The main goal of this course is to develop students’ professional intercultural communicative competence (PICC) that is referred to as the “integrative ability of solving professional tasks with the help of a foreign language”.

Learning Objectives

• to improve student’s ability to read and understand different types of texts including journal articles in the sphere of ancient studies; to improve student’s ability to listen and understand different types of lectures, videos and audios in the sphere of ancient studies; to increase student’s speaking skills in the sphere of ancient studies (presentations, discussions, debates); to develop student’s reading, listening, writing and speaking skills in the academic sphere (listening and reading comprehension practice, essay writing and diagram description, monologue and dialogue preparation).

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Understanding specialised complex longer texts/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems and ancient studies; Understanding text structure; Using basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details); Understanding dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; Understanding lectures; Understanding academic/ professional presentations which are linguistically complex;
• Using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details); Following extended speech and complex lines of arguments; Note-taking; Writing of summary, essay: opinion, discussion, report, e-mail (business correspondence), CV, review of a film/book/play; Taking part in debates (debate on abstract, complex topics); Prepare a monologue:descriptive/informative/reasoning; Prepare a presentation.

Course Contents

• Life in ancient times
• Art in ancient times

Assessment Elements

• Final Assessment
  FA consists of 3 parts: Listening (30%), Reading (30%) and Writing (40%) respectively in the total mark for the exam.
• Oral assessment
  Dialogues in the 1-2 modules; presentation in the 3 module.
• Written assessment
  Written assessment includes minimum 1 reading test, minimum 1 listening test, minimum 1 vocabulary and grammar test and minimum 1 written work (review). The test tasks can be of different types. The common mathematical rounding is applied to students’ scores.
• Independent Work Assessment (IWA)
  Independent work includes activities that students do at home, activities that students do in the classroom and online work. The elements of independent work cannot be retaken.

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 3rd module
  0.25 * Independent Work Assessment (IWA) + 0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.2 * Oral assessment + 0.25 * Written assessment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Bas Aarts. (2011). Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2245729
• Berry, R. (2018). English Grammar : A Resource Book for Students (Vol. 2nd edition). [Place of publication not identified]: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1753147
• English grammar in use : a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students: with answers, Murphy, R., 1992
• Murphy, R. (2012). Grammar in use : self-study reference and practice for students of English. Slovenia, Europe: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.6980C66C

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Altenberg, E. P., & Vago, R. M. (2010). English Grammar : Understanding the Basics. Cambridge: Cambridge eText. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=317623