2022/2023

Английский язык для специальных целей. Теоретическая лингвистика - 1

Статус: Факультатив

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 1, 2 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Багирокова Ирина Гаруновна, Виноградова Ольга Ильинична, Выренкова Анастасия Сергеевна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 48

Course Syllabus

Abstract

«English for Specific Purposes. General Linguistics – 1» is an elective course intended for first-year students who are training with the major in linguistics. It is to be administered as one of the set of courses of English in accordance with the Concept of developing English-speaking communicative competence of students of the Higher School of Economics. 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 the 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 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 programmes with discussions of the state of English language; practising areas of English grammar and English vocabulary; reading linguistic academic papers 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.

Learning Objectives

• 1. The course is aimed at developing BA Theoretical and Computational Linguistics 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. 2. provides an opportunity to discover various genres, formats, strategies, purposes and means of learning and narrating about the Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, as well as describing and interpreting art works of different styles and periods, creating and presenting linguistic projects in English using Information and Communications technology (ICT); 3. gives a chance to work with different sources and types of information for finding new solutions to the existing problems and designing innovative creative and personally meaningful research, educational and professional projects related to their future professional field; 4. practices analytical and critical thinking skills; 6. enables to reflect on their own and their team work and experience; 7. develops problem solving skills and creativity.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• to extract, organize and complete the information according to the given task using the strategies of predicting, prioritizing, identifying the general and specific (detailed), key and additional info, recognizing relevant/irrelevant, major and supporting facts, opinions, arguments etc., differentiating between narration, description and reasoning;
• to work with ideas and concepts related to the field of linguistics individually and in a team using the brainstorming, formulating, refining, adapting, arguing, debating, supporting, transforming etc. strategies;

Course Contents

• How Language Shapes the Way We Think
• How to read a linguistic article
• Experimental linguistics
• First language acquisition
• Sociolinguistics

Assessment Elements

• Independent work assessment
  LMS activity assessment- Band scale = % of work fully completed. Grading scale: 10 =96-100%; 9= 91-95% 8 = 86-90% 7 = 78-85% 6 = 71-77% 5 = 61-70% 4 = 51-60% 3 = 36-50% 2 = 21-35% 1 = 1%-20% 0 =0%, plagiarism or no work handed in or the student was absent OR : 100-96% of fully correct answers = 10; 95 - 91% of fully correct answers = 9; 90 - 86% of fully correct answers = 8; 85-78% of fully correct answers = 7; 77- 71% of fully correct answers = 6; 70-61% of fully correct answers = 5; 60-51% of fully correct answers = 4; 50-36% of fully correct answers = 3; 35-21% of fully correct answers = 2; 20-1% of fully correct answers = 1; 0%=0. Answers containing spelling mistakes are considered incorrect. Writing is assessed against the criteria. A fully completed task means that an assigned task meets the deadline and all the requirements. Independent work may include activities that students do at home and online work. The elements of independent work cannot be retaken.
• Oral assessment
  A MONOLOGUE
• Written assessment
  Summary and Essay
• Final assessment
  The final grade is composed of the following parts: 25% Written Assessment (WA) +20% Oral Assessment (OA) + 25% student Independent Work Assessment /online (IWA) + 30% Final Assessment (FA). Only overall grade is rounded up. Written assessment elements can be taken during the course of 10 days after they took place if a student has a medical certificate. The 10-day period starts from the last day of the medical leave. This, however, does not apply to oral assessment and individual work assessment (elements cannot be retaken). The Final Assessment may be taken again during the retake period. The first retake follows the structure of the Final Assessment. The second retake is conducted using unique Testing and Assessment Materials which cover the materials of the whole course. The grade for the second retake corresponds with the grade for the entire course. FINAL ASSESSMENT The interim exam lasts 70 minutes. The exam is written paper-and-pen test and is aimed at checking whether the student can demonstrate the acquisition of the learning objectives set. The exam consists of two parts, i.e. Listening and Writing that weigh 50% and 50% respectively in the total mark for the exam. The actual scores for Listening are turned into percentages which are tuned into a final mark out of 10 points. Grading scale: 10 =100 - 96%, 9=95 - 91%, 8=90 - 86%, 7 = 85 - 78%, 6 =77 - 71%, 5= 70 - 61%, 4 = 60 - 51%, 3 = 50 - 36%, 2 = 35 - 21%, 1 = 20 - 1 %, 0 = 0%. Period of FA: 10 days prior to the second module’s session. The release of examination papers: during the session. Retaking exams: till the 15th of February 2023. Time limit: 70 minutes online/offline. 1. Listening (L) Max. 10 points Students have no more than 20 minutes to complete the Listening part. Listen to the text. Possible Listening tasks: • Correct option for each task (multiple choice). • Fill in the gaps (gap-filling). • Decide whether the statement is True, False or Not Given. 2. Writing (W) Write a summary. Max. 10 points. Students should write a 150-word summary. Students have 50 minutes to complete the writing part. Grading formula: L* 0.5 + W*0.5 = 10.

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 2nd module
  0.25 * Written assessment + 0.3 * Final assessment + 0.2 * Oral assessment + 0.25 * Independent work assessment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Barón Birchenall, L. (2016). Animal Communication and Human Language: An overview.
• Boroditsky, L. (2019). Language and the brain. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz6490
• Christelle Gillioz, & Sandrine Zufferey. (2020). Introduction to Experimental Linguistics. Wiley-ISTE.
• James McGilvray. (2014). Chomsky : Language, Mind and Politics: Vol. Second edition. Polity.
• Martin Haspelmath, & Andrea D. Sims. (2010). Understanding Morphology. Routledge.
• Of minds and language : a dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque country, , 2010
• Oxford EAP : a course in English for academic purposes : upper-intermediate / B2, Chazal de, E., 2020
• Sulaiman, M., & Yuliani, S. (2017). A Contrastive Analysis between British and American Varieties: A Case-Study of English Accents. https://doi.org/10.26638/470.203X

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Alison Edgley. (2015). Noam Chomsky. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hendricks, R. K., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., & Boroditsky, L. (2019). Emotional Implications of Metaphor:Consequences of Metaphor Framing for Mindset about Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2018.1549835
• Pullum, G. K. (2018). Linguistics : Why It Matters. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1910481