English Language

2025/2026

ID 997201

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Type: Optional course

When: 1-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Evgeniya Yuryevna Klepko, Viktor Makarenko

Language: English

ECTS credits: 8

Contact hours: 128

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Abstract

The discipline refers to the educational tracks offered to students of the curricula for bachelor's degree while mastering the optional course of English in accordance with the Concept of Development of Foreign-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students. Students are enrolled to the course with the entrance test score of 60 or higher. The course is designed to introduce students to the language of economics and to help students communicate effectively in the workspace using the language of business, building effective business communications. The course gives insight into basic economic concepts and offers practical training in functional business skills such as collaboration, challenging conversations, presentations, analysing risk and maintaining relationships, which allows for personalization of the learning experience with a structured modular approach that gives the flexibility to focus on specific needs and learning outcomes. The course ongoing control types include essays, vocabulary and grammar quizzes, reading and listening tests, presentations, discussions and dialogues. The blocking elements are the winter test and the final assessment. The final grade consists of the following elements: 0.1 for attendance, 0.1 for the English Grammar and Vocabulary Test, 0.1 for the home assignment, 0.2 for the written assessment, 0.2 for the oral assessment, and 0.3 for the final assessment. The course interim assessment consists of an essay, reading and listening tests. Completing the course enables students to advance their English to the advanced level (HSE Scale 70-79).

Learning Objectives

To acquire language mastery relevant to common business communication areas, through enhancement of business vocabulary and grammar.
To master presentation agility and fluency with the various skills, practical training in functional business areas such as presentations, negotiations, meeting facilitation, and brainstorming.
To acquire basic skills in reading, listening, writing and speaking in the academic environment.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Develop skills of target listening and extracting information from texts of various types (lectures, interviews, discussions, etc).
To develop skills in writing essays.
To develop skills of writing emails.
Develop skills in delivering a monologue (informative/descriptive/reasoning)
Develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details)
To develop presentation skills for both individual and team projects
Develop skills of using basic reading techniques (understanding main ideas and details)
Develop skills of target reading and extracting information from texts of various types (articles, blogs).
Develop grammatical accuracy to enable clear, precise, and confident communication
Expand lexical range to enable clear, precise, and confident communication

Course Contents

Economics in the modern world
Management
Marketing
Finance
Alliances
Business risks
Government and business

Assessment Elements

Classroom Oral Assessment (COA) 1-2
Presentation, monologue
Final Assessment
listtening, reading, writing, speaking
Classroom Written Assessment
essay, email, grammar test, vocabulary test
Home Assessment
Independent work includes activities that students do at home for submission. They can be written and oral and include summaries, presentations, projects, emails, CVs, etc. Tasks from SMART LMS 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%
Winter test
reading, listening

Interim Assessment

2025/2026 2nd module
1 * Winter test
2025/2026 4th module
0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Classroom Written Assessment + 0.2 * Classroom Oral Assessment (COA) 1-2 + 0.25 * Home Assessment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Business correspondence. Деловая переписка - Красильникова И. В. - Воронежская государственная академия спорта - - - 2022 - русский - https://e.lanbook.com/book/310373 - ЛАНЬ - 310373
Business partner B2+ : coursebook, , 2019
Effective Presentations in English - Платова Е. Д. - Оренбургский государственный университет - 978-5-7410-2406-5 - 2019 - русский - https://e.lanbook.com/book/160030 - ЛАНЬ - 160030

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Develop your speaking skills - Осиянова А. В. - Оренбургский государственный университет - 978-5-7410-2072-2 - 2018 - русский - https://e.lanbook.com/book/159790 - ЛАНЬ - 159790
Бортникова, Т. Г. Деловая корреспонденция на английском языке. Business Correspondence in English : учебное пособие / Т. Г. Бортникова, И. Е. Ильина, С. А. Лычаная. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2022. — 128 с. — ISBN 978-5-9765-4905-0. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/201383 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Authors

Klepko Evgeniia Iurevna

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