2025/2026
Английский язык для общих академических целей. Продвинутый курс - 2
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Где читается:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Бестолкова Галина Васильевна,
Бывалина Валентина Юрьевна,
Емельянова Анастасия Юрьевна,
Катасонова Наталья Владимировна,
Кульков Даниил Андреевич,
Мостачева Елена Юрьевна,
Оводова Мария Кирилловна,
Романова Дарья Максимовна,
Скудина Елена Владимировна,
Цурцумия Джуна Джумбериевна,
Чихачева Дарья Владимировна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Course Syllabus
Abstract
«English for General Academic Purposes. Advanced–2» course caters to the first-year HSE undergraduates at a B2+/ C1 (CEFR) level who aim to enhance their English language command for University study and research as well as intercultural communication competence. In compliance with “Concept of Development of Foreign-Language Communicative Competence of HSE Students” and “Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics”, the course meets students’ multidisciplinary needs, while developing English-language communicative, integrated, critical and creative thinking competences, and digital literacy. Thus, students are exposed to a variety of rich authentic print and audio texts, organizational structures and tasks employed in mainstream academic environments and practices. Essentially, the course is targeted at building students’ core receptive (reading and listening) and productive (writing and speaking) knowledge and skills belonging to the academic domain at B2+/ C1 (CEFR). This would enable students to extract and process key information for further integrating relevant source materials and presenting argumentative oral (monologue, group discussion, presentation) and written (‘opinion’ and ‘advantages and disadvantages’ essays) texts. To successfully master the programme materials, the course provides for independent work on the online platform SMART LMS. To be admitted to the Course, students must show at least 60 points on the entry test. There are no blocking controls.
Learning Objectives
- The course focuses on enhancing essential analytical and language skills to deal with basic reading, listening, writing, and speaking assignments in English for academic purposes at an advanced level (B2+/ C1 CEFR), which would meet students’ multidisciplinary academic needs. While catering to different learning styles, the course fosters intercultural communication and digital literacy competences, as well as autonomous learning and team building skills. To achieve these goals, students are expected to: • further enhance their knowledge of key academic concepts and phenomena and contemporary trends in scientific expertise as well as develop academic competences; • gain awareness of key issues pertaining to the topics of “Money and commerce”, “Earth science”, “Medieval culture”, and “Materials engineering"; • to acquire appropriate reading, writing, listening, speaking strategies and foster academic language faculty for extracting and analyzing necessary information and producing relevant oral and written responses, depending on the target audience/ interlocutor, purpose, topic, and organization requirements; • foster their individual style of learning as well as soft skills while contributing to collaborative problem-solving activities as a team member.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- To form skills of note-taking
- To develop understanding of lectures and learning context
- To develop skills in writing essays (opinion, discussion)
- To form understanding of text structure
- To produce monologues (informative/descriptive/reasoning)
- To read authentic academic texts on different disciplines
- To develop skills of using reading techniques of skimming and scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details)
- To listen to different lectures for following structured note-taking tasks and completing exercises
- To develop skills of using different listening techniques (listening for gist, listening for details, listening for specific information)
- To participate in dialogues/discussions on academic topics
- To develop linguistic competence
- To speak (present, discuss) on different academic issues
Course Contents
- Unit 1: Money and Commerce.
- Unit 2: Earth Science
- Unit 3: Medieval Culture
- Unit 4: Materials Engineering
Assessment Elements
- Final Assessment (FA)
- Classroom Oral Assessment (COA)Oral Assessment includes minimum 1 monologue, 1 Q&A discussion
- Classroom Written Assessment (CWA)Written assessment includes at least : • 1 reading test, • 1 listening test, • 3 vocabulary and grammar tests • 1 essay.
- Home assignment (HA)
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.2 * Classroom Oral Assessment (COA) + 0.25 * Classroom Written Assessment (CWA) + 0.3 * Final Assessment (FA) + 0.25 * Home assignment (HA)
