2021/2022
English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate Course - 1
Type:
Optional course
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1, 2 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Колмакова Анжелика Владимировна,
Дымова Елена Евгеньевна,
Колмакова Анжелика Владимировна,
Былова Полина Дмитриевна,
Сивер Екатерина Сергеевна,
Скудина Елена Владимировна,
Сивер Екатерина Сергеевна,
Дымова Елена Евгеньевна,
Irena Fadeeva,
Anna Gadeliya,
Darya Girevaya,
Tatiana Pitra,
Polina Rybnikova,
Anastasia Vlasenko,
Elena Leonidovna Zanina,
Шапиро Элина Диаматовна
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to students of the curricula for bachelor's and master's degree at choice while mastering the optional course of English in accordance with the Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students. The Programme is for the 1st-year students. English for General Academic Purposes is designed to develop foreign-language communicative and integrated and critical thinking skills that are based on Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students. Every student has slightly different needs, depending on their chosen discipline, cultural background and other factors. However, there are main skills, tasks, and academic language that are common to most disciplines and are relevant to the needs of most students preparing to study English at university level. The course is focused on core tasks relevant to all students, such as working out the main points of an academic text or lecture (such perspectives as knowledge, motivation, nature, power and growth). There are no blocking controls.
Learning Objectives
- The aims of the course are: - to improve student’s ability to read and understand journal articles, texts, lectures from different perspectives;
- - to increase student’s comprehension of spoken English;
- - to strengthen student’s speaking and writing skills in a range of different disciplines;
- - to systematically and progressively develop students’ academic skills, language, and critical thinking;
- - to learn topic-based academic vocabulary; - to develop the students’ general capacity to a level that enables them to use English in their professional and academic environment granted that they are provided with the specific notions and vocabulary in the course of their studies.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Dialogue on general, academic and professional topics. (active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing, discussion strategies)
- Monologue (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech)
- Presentation (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech)
- To develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details)
- To develop skills of using basic reading techniques skimming and scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details)
- To develop understanding of articles, reports, straightforward and specialised texts concerned with contemporary problems at the threshold/vantage/effective operational proficiency level
- To develop understanding of lectures and learning context
- To form skills of note-taking
- To form understanding of text structure
- To improve understanding of dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics
- Writing a summary of a text
- Writing an academic e-mail
Course Contents
- Topic 1. Knowledge
- Topic 2. Organization and motivation
- Topic 3. Nature
- Topic 4. Power and growth
Assessment Elements
- Email, letter
- vocabulary quiz; reading and writing exercises;
- Writing a summary
- Oral Assessment (monologue, discussion, presentation)
- Individual Work AssessmentReading, Listening, tests (for online)
- Written Assessment (summary, email, letter, vocabulary and reading tests)
- Final AssessmentIt includes a summary and listening test.
