2024/2025

English for Business Purposes. Upper-Intermediate Course - 1

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1, 2 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Воронцова-Менало Анна Сергеевна, Шаймерденова Ирина Ериковна, Alla A. Efimova, Irena Fadeeva, Ekaterina A. Kuftina, Lyudmila Yuryevna Rokotyanskaya, Alexandra Smorodinova, Larisa Stanislavovna Stupakova, Рай Кейтлин Чарандживовна, Афанасьева Арина Павловна, Кочухова Анастасия Андреевна, Спиридонова Анна Александровна, Жукова Виктория Александровна, Рай Кейтлин Чарандживовна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to students of the curricula for Bachelor's and Specialist's degrees of choice while mastering the optional course of English in accordance with the Concept of the Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students. Students are enrolled to the course with the entrance test score of 30 or higher. This course is designed for students who want to communicate effectively in English in the workplace. It allows for the personalization of the learning experience with a structured modular approach that gives flexibility to focus on specific needs and learning outcomes. Students who have completed the discipline will learn basic professional terminology and vocabulary for the implementation of business communication and commercial activities and acquire oral and written skills in the field of business communication. Role-playing games involving telephone conversations, exchange of letters, participation in meetings, and meetings with business partners as well as case studies form and develop students' business communication skills in a meaningful and authentic professional context. The course ongoing control types include summmaries, vocabulary and grammar quizzes, reading and listening tests, presentations, discussions and dialogues. The course interim assessment consists of a summary and a listening test. By the end of the course, students will gain the skills and confidence to communicate effectively in English at the B2 level (HSE Scale 50-59).

Learning Objectives

• The course focuses on introducing students to the general vocabulary of work-place English and the main language functions and is aimed at acquiring language mastery relevant to common business communication areas, such as career choices and professional development, dealing with business sectors and managing projects. To apply BC skills to the specific subject area of International Affairs, from business conversations in the workplace, to negotiations and presentation skills. To acquire the basic skills of business communication (structural elements, business register peculiarities, essential business vocabulary) within multiple touch points from which to explore the possibilities of use of any given language skill. To build the basic skills of argumentative communication in English and successful representation of intentions and results to ensure the maximum range and authenticity of business content. To master presentation agility and fluency with the various skills, practical training in functional business areas such as presentations, negotiations, meeting facilitation, and brainstorming.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Develop skills of target listening and extracting information from texts of various types (lectures, interviews, discussions, etc).
• To develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details)
• To develop skills in writing e-mails (business correspondence)
• To develop skills in writing summaries
• To make presentations on professional topics, giving reasons in support or against a particular point of view, giving the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions and respond to clearly expressed questions on a presentation they have given.
• To develop reading skills: understanding of articles, reports, straightforward and specialised texts concerned with contemporary problems at the threshold/vantage/effective operational proficiency level - understanding of text structure - skills of using basic reading techniques (skimming and scanning, predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details)
• To participate in problem-solving discussions; deliver a project presentation based on their independent reading (formulating a thesis statement and supporting arguments)

Course Contents

• Management
• Work and Motivation
• Organization
• Job-hunting
• Brands

Assessment Elements

• Written Assessment
  Written assessment includes min 1 listening test, min 1 reading test, min 2 vocabulary and grammar tests, min 1 email, min 1 summary. The test can be retaken within 10 working days if the absence has been officially documented.
• Oral Assessment
  Oral assessment includes dialogues, Q&A sessions and monologues.
• Independent Work Assessment
  Independent work includes activities that students do at home, in the classroom and online work. The elements of independent work cannot be retaken.
• Final Assessment
  Period of FA: 10 days prior to the 2nd module’s session. The release of examination papers: during the session. Time limit: 70 minutes online/offline. The structure of the exam: 1. Listening (L): Listen to the text ONCE and complete the tasks. Max. 10 points. Students have no more than 20 minutes to complete the Listening (L) part. 2. Writing (W) Read the text. Write a summary on the text you have read. A student should write a 150-word summary. Students have 50 minutes to complete the Writing (W) part. Grading formula: L*0,5 + W*0,5 = 10.

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Independent Work Assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Written Assessment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Business English for students of economics = Деловой английский для студентов-экономистов - Герасимов Б.И., Гливенкова О.А., Гунина Н.А. и др. - Издательство ФОРУМ - 2022 - https://znanium.com/catalog/product/1834747 - 1176840 - ZNANIUM
• Business partner B1+ : coursebook, , 2021
• English for business studies : a course for business studies and economics students: student's book, MacKenzie, I., 2012
• Красильникова, И. В. Business correspondence. Деловая переписка : учебно-методическое пособие / И. В. Красильникова. — Воронеж : ВГАС, 2022. — 52 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/310373 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
• Стогниева, О. Н.  Английский язык для экономистов (B1–B2). English for Business Studies in Higher Education : учебное пособие для вузов / О. Н. Стогниева. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2023. — 197 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-10008-2. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/517158 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024).
• Уваров, В. И.  Английский язык для экономистов (A2–B2). English for Business + аудиозаписи : учебник и практикум для вузов / В. И. Уваров. — 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2023. — 351 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-09049-9. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/511466 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024).

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• A dictionary of business and management, , 2009

Authors

• GABRIELOVA ELENA VALEREVNA
• KLEPKO EVGENIYA YUREVNA