2024/2025
English for Specific Purposes. Economics - 3
Type:
Optional course
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1-3 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Natalia Vasilyevna Gridina
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
50
Course Syllabus
Abstract
"ESP: Economics-3" is designed as an interesting and stimulating course in English for specific purposes particularly for the students of Economics at the B2+ CEFR level. Completing the course enables learners to boost their English-language competences and skills in English with a focus on Economics up to the C1 level. The course combines lively, authentic materials from a wide range of sources in Economics. Students are offered a variety of interesting activities in which they discuss the topic and exchange ideas on it. The course provides the necessary practical writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills, which will help students to learn two things: how to deal with Economics in English and the language they need to accomplish this. The course includes case studies that give an opportunity to apply all the language, skills, and ideas students have mastered. Apart from vocabulary practice, students will expand their knowledge of important grammatical structures. Controlled exercises help them check that they can use these structures, and later exercises let them hear and use them in fluent speech. Students will build up their confidence in using English in the field of Economics and will improve their fluency through interesting discussion activities.
Learning Objectives
- production of output texts in speech and writing in economics (productive skills) the complex development of skills and competences for communication in economics of the B2 - C1 level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), IELTS 5.0-7.5+);
- coping with input texts in economics, i.e., listening and reading, in the discipline (receptive skills); the expansion of grammar structures in use in terms of economic issues the expansion of vocabulary on a variety of topics of economics;
Expected Learning Outcomes
- assess various instruments, approaches, technologies in economics and prove, project a certain position in a debate/discussion providing explanations and examples;
- create presentations on the chosen topic of the research and give a clear talk about it in the class, giving reasons in support or against a particular point of view); describe graphs and reviews by summarizing the main ideas and selecting appropriate supporting details and synthesizing information;
- comprehend extended listening materials on a variety of topics of economics (lectures, dialogues, polylogues, professional presentations), use basic listening techniques and take notes
- describe graphs and reviews by summarizing the main ideas and selecting appropriate supporting details and synthesizing information; participate in conversations and debates on a variety of topics in different contexts of economics; produce a monologue (descriptive, informative, reasoning)
- use a wide range of grammatical and lexical items in terms of economics; understand specialised complex longer texts/articles and reports concerned with economics and contemporary problems; use basic reading techniques, skimming and scanning; describe graphs and reviews by summarizing the main ideas and selecting appropriate supporting details and synthesizing information;
Course Contents
- Economics in the modern world
- How economics is organized
- Economics, globalization and sustainability
- Economics and technology
- Market economies
- Macroeconomics…but microfinance
- Economic crises
- The economics of agriculture
- The economics of health care
- The economics of sport
- Labour markets
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.3 * Final test + 0.25 * Individual work + 0.2 * Oral assessment + 0.25 * Written assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- English for economics in higher education studies : course book, Roberts, M., 2012
- Английский язык для экономистов : учебник и практикум для акад. бакалавриата, Барановская, Т. А., 2014
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Учебно - методическое пособие к учебнику "Economics" by C.St.J.Yates для студентов 1 курса, Барановская, Т. А., 2010