2024/2025
English for Specific Purposes. English for Journalism and Media - 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:
50
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to Bachelor’s degree students as an option while they master the optional course of English in accordance with the “Concept of the Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students”. The ESP course "English for Journalism and Media" for2nd-year Bachelor's students explores the following topics: "Society and Media", "Digital Media", "News Production", "Three Ps: Pre-production, Production, Post-production", "Ethics and Laws in Media". Apart from a strong focus on mastering relevant and most frequently used subject-specific vocabulary and key terminology through communication practice, the course provides an empirically based understanding of the discourse and language used in the target ESP variety by involving students in projects related to media production. The course is also aimed at developing the four major sets of language skills — listening, reading, writing, and speaking through various tasks (both in standard and creative formats) based on the communicative approach to foreign-language teaching. Moreover, the course also provides task-based activities such as projects, most of which simulate workplace assignments and help students to practice them prior to the real working experience. The prerequisite level of English for students willing to take the course is B2 or higher (according to CEFR).
The course includes the following assessment elements:
-Oral Assessment (Presentations; Public Speech; Negotiations)
-Written Assessment (News Article; Review; Tests)
-Independent Work (homework assignments; class activities)
-Final Assessment
-Video Project
Learning Objectives
- 1. To sharpen students’ comprehension skills of manifold traditional and emerging (hybrid) types of media products (e.g., professional articles, reports/user-generated content)
- 2. To master essential genres and appropriate specialized registers of English
- 3. To enable students to acquire specialized vocabulary (key terminology) and a set of lexical items with the highest frequency of occurrence in various professional contexts
- 4. To develop the ability to use essential domain-specific and conventionalized grammatical structures prevalent in the target ESP variety
- 5. To master analytical and critical thinking/writing skills/to master writing skills in various spheres
- 6. To upgrade skills related to the solution of diverse professionally oriented tasks both individually and in teams
- 7. To foster awareness of long-term patterns and relevant trends in the spheres of media production and consumption
- 8. To improve media literacy and develop a creative approach applicable to a range of professionally relevant tasks (media project management, research)
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Listening: 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
- Understanding specialised complex longer texts*/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems (CEFR) Understanding text structure Using basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details) *can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm his/her interpretation of terminology
- can write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesising and evaluating information, can evaluate different ideas or solutions to a problem): Summary Essay: opinion, discussion Report E-mail (business correspondence) CV Review of a film/book/play.
- 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
- Understanding specialised complex longer texts*/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems (CEFR) Understanding text structure Using basic reading techniques, skimming, scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details) *can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm his/her interpretation of terminology
- Debates (debate on abstract, complex topics) Monologue: descriptive/informative/reasoning Presentation (can give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions)
- Understanding specialised complex longer texts*/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems (CEFR) Understanding text structure Using basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details) *can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm his/her interpretation of terminology;
- Reading: understanding specialised complex longer texts*/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems (CEFR) Understanding text structure Using basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details) *can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm his/her interpretation of terminology
- Speaking: debates (debate on abstract, complex topics) Monologue: descriptive/informative/reasoning Presentation (can give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions).
- comprehends pragmatic features of spoken and written media business discourse, knows the peculiarities of basic genres to demonstrate them in media business communication contexts (e.g., meetings with sponsors, project presentations)
- Writing: can write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesising and evaluating information, can evaluate different ideas or solutions to a problem; Summary/ Essay: opinion, discussion/ Report/ E-mail: business correspondence/ CV/ Review of a film/book/play.
Course Contents
- UNIT 1. Media and Society
- UNIT 2. Digital Media
- UNIT 3. News Production
- Unit 4. Three Ps (Pre-Production; Production; Post-Production
Assessment Elements
- Written Assessment
- Oral Assessment
- Independent Work Assessment
- Video Project
- Final Assessment
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.2 * Independent Work Assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.1 * Video Project + 0.2 * Written Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Global media studies, Miller, T., 2016
- The principles of multimedia journalism : packaging digital news, Hernandez, R. K., 2016
- Английский язык для журналистов : учебник для академического бакалавриата, Чиронова, И. И., 2016
- Английский язык. Медиакоммуникации и журналистика : учебник, , 2023
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Introduction to mass communication : media literacy and culture, Baran, S. J., 2012
- The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media, Dijck van, J., 2013