2021/2022
English for General Academic Purposes. Advanced 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,
Абдрашитова Мария Овсеевна,
Колмакова Анжелика Владимировна,
Olga V. Burenkova,
Red Bushetara,
Mariana Dobrovolskaya,
Anna Doshlygina,
Alla A. Efimova,
Anna Gadeliya,
Liudmila Gagarina,
Nadezhda Glushkova,
Nataliya Valentinovna Guskova,
Maria Ivanchenko,
Elena Kryukova,
Maxim Kviatkovskii,
Maria Loktionova,
Daria Ulkhanovna Mirzaeva,
Elena Yurievna Mostacheva,
Lidiya Pankina,
Irina Pelevina,
Tatiana Borisovna Pospelova,
Polina Rybnikova,
Anastasia Vlasenko,
Anna Robertovna Zhavoronkova
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 education, communication, systems, and others). There are no blocking controls.
Learning Objectives
- The objectives 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 revise, consolidate and extend command of English grammar and vocabulary;
- - to develop the students’ reading skills to enable them to skim the text for main idea, to scan the text for specific information, to interpret the text for inferences, attitudes and styles, to deduce meanings from the context;
- - to develop the students’ listening skills to enable them to understand and apply specific information from the input;
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
Assessment Elements
- vocabulary quiz; reading, listening and writing exercises;
- speaking, presentations
- student independent work/onlineReading, Listening, tests (for online)
- Final Assessment.
- a letter/email
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 2nd module0.3 * Final Assessment. + 0.2 * speaking, presentations + 0.25 * vocabulary quiz; reading, listening and writing exercises; + 0.25 * student independent work/online
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Oxford EAP. A course in English for academic purposes. Upper-Intermediate/B2 . Student's book (+ ..., Chazal, E., 2012
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Oxford grammar for EAP : english grammar and practice for academic purposes with answers, Paterson, K., 2013