2024/2025

English for General Communication Purposes. Advanced Course - 2

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: Department of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Архипова Светлана Андреевна, Саламова Наиля Натиговна, Vasilina Beketova, Oksana Danilova, Olga Doroshko, Olga G. Gorina, Daniil Granovskiy, Maria Khan, Svetlana Kucherenko, Vera Vladimirovna Meniailo, Marina Poletaeva, Elena Stanislavovna Rumyantseva, Кукушкин Кирилл Витальевич, Ким Наталья Анатольевна, Просвирякова Руслана Игоревна, Енина Анна Дмитриевна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course develops foreign language communicative competence at the C1-C1+ level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR), specifically linguistic, sociolinguistic, sociocultural, discursive, strategic competences, as well as the formation of academic skills necessary for using the English language in educational, scientific, and professional activities. The discipline is taught during the third and fourth modules of the first year and follows a modular structure. Each thematic module has a similar structure based on discussion topics that correspond to language proficiency levels, integrate knowledge from various humanities, natural sciences, and economics disciplines, expand information and language resources considering possible contexts of professional activities and communication spheres of professionals with higher education, focus on the development of specific macro and micro skills in oral and written speech in terms of reception and production, provide the opportunity to work with different types and forms of texts (linear/non-linear, verbal/non-verbal, media, artistic, etc.) simultaneously, involve a sufficient amount of independent research work, and allow flexibility in adjusting the course workload according to the actual learning situation.