2024/2025

English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate Course - 2

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Мищук Анастасия Михайловна, Olga Kamenskaya, Natalia V. Katasonova, Viktor Makarenko, Irina Pelevina, Tatiana Pitra, Maria Pronina, Elena Leonidovna Zanina, Anastasia Zizina, Капусткина Елена Сергеевна, Шапиро Элина Диаматовна, Капусткина Елена Сергеевна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Course Syllabus

Abstract

«English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate Course - 2» for the 1st year students is designed to develop foreign-language communicative and integrated and critical thinking skills that are based on "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics" and "Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students". Every student has slightly different needs, depending on their chosen discipline, cultural background and other factors. However, the primary skills, tasks, and academic language are common to most disciplines and are relevant to the needs of most students preparing to study English at the university level. The course is designed for students who wish to widen their understanding and knowledge of Academic English (understanding the notion of bias, summarising arguments when note taking, taking notes from extensive reading and from academic lectures and discussions, debating skills, fluency and accuracy in complex topics, paraphrasing, planning and drafting essays, levels of formality and register, the organisation of texts)