2024/2025
English for Specific Purposes. General Linguistics - 2
Type:
Optional course
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
3, 4 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
80
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course "English for Specific Purposes. General Linguistics-2" is an elective intended for 2nd-year students who are training with a major in linguistics. It is to be administered as one of the set of courses of English in accordance with the Concept of the Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students. The aims of the course are (1) to develop Academic English competence on the basis of getting familiar with academic written and oral production in English, and (2) to advance HSE students’ research skills in the area of their specialization, i.e. linguistics. The course focuses on core tasks relevant to all academic purposes, such as working out the main points of an academic text or lecture; presenting a summary of the information received, taking into consideration positions of all contributors to the area in focus; and extending one’s own scope of English communicative competence and professional vocabulary in the area of linguistics and linguistic studies as a means to develop academic writing and listening skills. The students will be expected to produce critical, analytic, or evaluative texts in speech and writing throughout the course. The syllabus covers concepts and key vocabulary necessary for discussing linguistics as well as words and phrases commonly used in Academic English. Finally, the course is to highlight the skills and academic norms that are required for participation in linguistic seminars and tutorials in the English language, on the one hand, and in international academic events, on the other. As a result, students are expected to present their group and individual projects orally and in writing throughout the course.
The main components of the course are studying parts of the book by Edward de Chazal & Sam McCarter Oxford EAP: A Course in English for Academic Purposes; watching video lectures devoted to separate areas of linguistics; listening to radio programs with discussions of the state of the English language; practising areas of English grammar and English vocabulary; reading academic papers on linguistics in English followed by presentation of students’ summaries or discussions of the scholarly arguments in the papers; presentations in class of students’ own linguistic projects.