2024/2025
English for General Academic Purposes. Advanced Course - 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
«English for General Academic Purposes. Advanced Course 3» for the 2nd year HSE University students is designed to develop foreign-language communicative, integrated academic, and critical thinking skills. The syllabus is based on the following documents: "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at the 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 focuses on key tasks relevant to all university students, such as reading academic texts, taking notes on lectures, writing reviews, participating in academic discussions, etc. The course is designed to equip advanced level English learners with the reading, writing, and oral communication skills necessary to succeed in courses at university. The blended instructional model provides students with an inspiring collection of extensive authentic content. There are no blocking points of assessment. Forms of formative and summative assessment are written assessment (0.25), oral assessment (0.20), student independent work/online (0.25), and final test (0.3).
Learning Objectives
- to improve students' ability to read and understand scientific journal articles, texts, lectures from different perspectives
- to increase students' comprehension of spoken and written academic English
- to strengthen students' speaking and writing skills for their professional use
- to systematically and progressively develop students’ academic skills, language, and critical thinking
- to develop students’ general capacity to a level that enables them to use English in their professional and academic environment, granted that they are provided with the specific notions and vocabulary in the course of their studies
- to provide the material for students to revise, consolidate and extend their command of advanced English grammar and vocabulary
- to develop students’ reading skills to enable them to skim texts for the main idea, scan texts for specific information, interpret texts for inferences, attitudes, and styles, and deduce meanings from the scientific context
- to develop students’ listening skills to enable them to understand and apply specific information of the advanced level from the input
Expected Learning Outcomes
- to interact with other speakers flawlessly and efficiently
- to know and use advanced academic vocabulary
- to use EGAP flexibly and effectively
- to link multiple sources to produce a cohesive book/article/documentary/literature review
- to express oneself in the foreign language fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions
- to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors, and cohesive devices
Course Contents
- Unit 1. Linguistics
- Unit 2. Business ethics
- Unit 3. Earth Science
- Unit 4. Medieval Culture
- Unit 5. Materials engineering
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.3 * Final Test + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Written Assessment + 0.25 * student independent work/online
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Cambridge Academic English : Advanced : Class Audio CD, An integrated skills course for EAP, Course consultant M. McCarthy, 1 оптич. диск (Class Audio CD), Hewings, M., 2012
- Cambridge Academic English : Advanced : DVD, An integrated skills course for EAP, Course concultant M. McCarthy, 1 оптич. диск (DVD), Hewings, M., Thaine, C., 2012
- Cambridge Academic English : An integrated skills course for EAP : Advanced, Student's Book, Course consultant M. McCarthy, 176 p., Hewings, M., Thaine, C., 2013
- Cambridge academic english C1. Advanced class audio CD [ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЙ РЕСУРС] : an integrated skills cours for EAP, Hewings, M., 2012
- Cambridge academic English: advanced: student's book : an integrated skills course for EAP, Hewings, M., 2012
- Cambridge academic English: advanced: teacher's book : an integrated skills course for EAP, Firth, M., 2012
- Cambridge academic English. An integrated skills course for EAP : Advanced. Student's book, Hewings M., 2012
- Cambridge academic English. An integrated skills course for EAP : Advanced. Teacher's book, Firth M., 2012
- Cambridge academic English. An integrated skills course for EAP [Звукозапись] : Advanced. Class audio CD, Hewings M., 2012
- Cambridge academic English. An integrated skills course for EAP. Advanced [Звукозапись], Hewings M., 2012
- Cambridge Vocabulary for Advanced with answers, self-study vocabulary practice, 144 p., Haines, S., 2012
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Advanced English C.A.E., O'Connell, S., 2000
- Advanced English grammar : a linguistic approach, Depraetere, I., 2012
- Advanced English grammar : a linguistic approach, Depraetere, I., 2013
- Advanced Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises with answers, VII, 135 p., Haines, S., Nettle, M., Hewings, M., 2007
- Advanced Grammar in Use, a self-study reference and practice book for advanced learners of English with answers, 2nd ed., 294 p., Hewings, M., 2005
- Advanced Learner's Grammar, a self-study reference & practice book with answers, 384 p., Foley, M., Hall, D., 2004
- Advanced Learner's, english dictionary, Collins Cobuild, 4th ed., 1712 p., , 2003
- Cambridge advanced learner's dictionary, , 2006