2021/2022

Английский язык для специальных целей. История - 3

Статус: Факультатив

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 1-3 модуль

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Чашко Марина Михайловна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 52

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course “English for Specific Purposes. History - 3” is designed for the 2nd -year Undergraduate (BA) students whose major is History or whose interest lies in History both as an academic discipline and as a professional field. The course continues “English for Specific Purposes. History -1,2” course offered at the 1st-year of BA studies and covers the first 3 Modules of the 2nd academic year of the BA students. The course adheres to the Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students and the Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics. The main goal of this course is to develop students’ professional intercultural communicative competence (PICC) that is referred to as the “integrative ability of solving professional tasks with the help of a foreign language”. The types of learning activities, methods of instruction and materials of the course enable to model the academic context of the History students’ activities, as well as the social and professional context of the future graduates’ career paths in the field of History. The contents of the course contain the following modules: • Designing a project: an overview, main types and formats of history projects, their aims, objectives, sources, methods, strategies, team roles, etc.; • Research, educational and applied projects in History: the overview and case analysis of several projects’ concepts (aims, tasks, sources, structure, methodology, technologies and techniques, etc.); • Presenting a project: presenting and promoting a History project

Learning Objectives

• The course is aimed at developing BA students’ professional intercultural communicative competence (PICC) that is referred to as the “integrative ability of solving professional tasks with the help of foreign language” . Development of the PICC, as an integrative goal of this course, ensures plunging students as active participants into the process of solving a variety of professionally-oriented tasks with the help of the English language that model a broad diverse social and quasi-professional context of their future career paths.
• Engaging students in such quasi-professional activities allows to set the following learning objectives of the course: • find out purposes, useful strategies and means of learning about History; • work with different sources and types of information for finding new solutions to the existing problems of the historical field; • discover various types and genres of texts that narrate, describe and analyse historical periods, events and issues; • design innovative creative and personally meaningful research, educational and professional projects related to historical field using Information and Communications technology (ICT); • practice analytical and critical thinking skills; • acquire an ability to cooperate in a team and work autonomously; • reflect on the personal and team work and experience; • develop their problem-solving skills and creativity.
• The course is aimed at mastering the skills of: Reading: • Understanding specialised complex longer texts*/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems (CEFR) • Understanding text structure • Using basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details) *can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm his/her interpretation of terminology Listening: • Understanding dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics • Understanding lectures • Understanding academic/ professional presentations which are linguistically complex • Using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details) • Following extended speech and complex lines of arguments • Note-taking Writing: (can write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesising and evaluating information, can evaluate different ideas or solutions to a problem): • Summary • Essay: opinion, discussion • Report • E-mail (business correspondence) • CV • Review of a film/book/play Speaking: • Debates (debate on abstract, complex topics) • Monologue:descriptive/informative/reasoning • Presentation (can give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions).

Expected Learning Outcomes

• See planning outcomes for Section 1, Section 2, Section 3
• Students are expected to develop listening skills: • to improve understanding of dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; • to develop understanding of lectures and learning context; • to develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details); • to form skills of note-taking.
• Students are expected 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).
• Students are expected to produce in speaking: • monologue (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech); • dialogue/discussion on general, academic and professional topics (active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing, discussion strategies); • presentation (project concept) and further discussion (Q&A session) (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech).
• Thus, the learning outcomes of the course include the development of students hard and transferrable skills which help form and develop universal and professional competences related to the use of the English language that are regulated by the HSE unified “Conception of the development of students’ English communicative competence” and the HSE “Educational Standard for BA History educational programme
• • appropriate choice and usage of lexical and grammatical constructions and necessary means of expression for building logical, well-organized, balanced and vivid written texts and oral statements in English;
• • free usage of receptive and productive skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking in English for holding fluent oral and written communication in situations of interpersonal, socio-cultural and professional communication in various types of intercultural academic and professional environments;
• • free usage of the English language as a tool to autonomously find, critically analyze, interpret and apply the information in different types of texts, employing digital sources, for solving academic and professional tasks;
• • production of fluent, coherent, accurate and expressive written and spoken speech products in various genres and formats of academic and professional communication in English,

Course Contents

• Section 3. Presenting a History Project
• Section 2. Designing a Project: Research, Educational and Applied Projects in History
• Section 1. History as a Career. Academic and Professional tracks
• Section 1. History as a Career. Academic and Professional tracks Section 2. Designing a Project: Research, Educational and Applied Projects in HistorySection 3. Presenting a History Project

Assessment Elements

• Written assessment
• Oral assessment
• Independent assessment
  According to the "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics” the grades for all assessment elements are assigned using 10-points scale, while the grades for particular elements (e.g. tests, quizzes etc.) can be determined using the following scale: Grading Scale (% correct answers/grade): 100 - 96% (10) 95 - 91% (9) 90 - 86% (8) 85 - 78% (7) 77 - 71% (6) 70 - 61% (5) 60 - 51% (4) 50 - 36% (3) 35 - 21% (2) 20 - 1 % (1) 0% (0) Students are expected to turn in assignments on the due date. In case of any problems with submitting the assignments, giving presentations etc. on the due date, despite officially proven reasonable excuses, students must inform the instructor about the occurred issue in advance or no later than in 24-hour period after the deadline. If the instructor is informed, assignments (besides listening, group work tasks and the final test) can be accepted after the deadline and presentations can be rescheduled according to the decision of the instructor. All course participants are expected to interact in a respectful manner, be fully engaged with the groupmates, the instructor and the course content. Students must adhere to generally accepted standards of academic honesty, including but not limited to refraining from cheating, plagiarizing, inappropriately collaborating, mispresenting one’s work.
• Final assessment
  Communication failures during the test: A short-term communication failure during the test is considered to be a loss of a student’s network connection with the platform for up to 5 minutes. A long-term communication failure during the test is the loss of a student’s network connection with the platform for more than 5 minutes. It is not possible to complete the test in case of a long-term communication failure. In the event of a long-term communication failure with the platform during the test, the student must record the fact of the loss of communication with the platform (take a screenshot/photograph of the entire screen so that the time and the application/web browser window are visible, get a response from the Internet provider) and report the problem to the office of the student’s Program and to the teacher (in one email). Note: According to part 33 of Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics «…. The use of materials not permitted by this list, attempts to communicate with other students or other individuals (e.g., through electronic means of communication), unauthorized movement in the examination room, having electronic means of communication that are not allowed by the teacher, intended disconnection from the video conference or switching browser tab, when it is clear that the teacher forbids the action, and other violations of examination procedure constitute ground for the end of exam for the particular student (student’s removal from the examination room, disconnection from the videoconference, etc.) with a subsequent “0” grade in the examination grade column. Порядок проведения Final Assessment 2 курс 3 модуль. Курс по выбору Цель проведения: оценка степени сформированности коммуникативных компетенций по результатам обучения английскому языку на 2 курсе в соответствии с планируемыми результатами обучения. Период проведения: за 10 дней до сессии 3 модуля. Период показа работ: в период сессии. Период пересдач: до 15 октября 2022. Время выполнения – 80 минут. Структура экзамена № п/п Разделы экзамена Задания Оценивание Максимально 10 баллов Комментарии к заданиям 1. Listening (L) Прослушайте аудиофайл один раз и выполните последовательно задания 1-10. каждый верный ответ оценивается в 1 балл Длительность аудиозаписи составляет 6-7 минут. Время выполнения раздела Аудирование составляет не более 10 минут. 2. Reading (R) Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 1-10. каждый верный ответ оценивается в 1 балл Объем текста 3000-3500 знаков Время выполнения раздела Чтение составляет не более 20 минут. 3. Writing (W) Напишите review/report. в соответствии с критериями Рекомендуемое количество слов Review 250-30 Report 150-200 Время выполнения раздела Письмо составляет не более 50 минут. Формула оценивания: L*0,3+R*0,3 +W*0,4 = 10
• Presentation and further discussion
• Dialogue

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 3rd module
  0.300 Final Assessment 0.250 Individual Work Assessment 0.250 Written Assessment 0.200 Oral Assessment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Английский язык для историков : учебник и практикум для акад. бакалавриата, Смольянина Е.А., НИУ ВШЭ, 2017
• Английский язык для историков (B1 - B2) : учебник и практикум для акад. бакалавриата, Смольянина Е.А., 2019

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Academic vocabulary in use, McCarthy, M., 2009