2022/2023
English for Specific Purposes. Public Administration - 1
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Optional course
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1, 2 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Viktor Makarenko
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 academic course English for Specific Purposes is aimed at the formation of students’ foreign language communicative competence at B2-C1 levels, as well as the formation of academic skills necessary for the use of English in educational, scientific and professional activities, further training in given educational and professional fields. The course is designed for the 1st-year students. It provides the development of the English language skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking as well as lexical and grammatical efficiency, aimed at effective communication. The Programme integrates the following aspects: General English, English for Academic Purposes, and English for Specific Purposes, with a special emphasis on the latter aspect. All integrated aspects present adequate extent of the English language depending on the specifics of the training area of the education programme. Students, successfully completed the program, will be prepared to take exams.
Learning Objectives
- Formation of academic and professional communication competencies necessary for the use of the English language in educational, scientific, and professional activities.
- Complex formation of communicative skills in the range of the set levels of communicative competence.
- Development of information culture: searching for and systematize the necessary information, determining its reliability, referencing and using to create own texts of various directions; working with large amounts of information in a foreign language.
- Integrated development of cognitive and research skills using resources in a foreign language during classroom and independent work.
- Integrated skills work with different types of texts in the format of international exams.
- Development of conceptual and terminological apparatus in the selected direction of training in the target language.
- Development of students' foreign language communicative competence in the range of B2-C1 levels according to the European scale CEFR levels.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- 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
- - Analyzing, comparing and interpreting information within the subject area, using the appropriate thesaurus and using the formed communication strategies.
- - Building coherent statements of a reproductive and productive nature, including argumentation and expression of the student’s attitude to the received information.
- - Conducting dialogues, presentations, debates and discussions), providing arguments, confirming opinions with examples, interacting with interlocutors within the framework of the subject content.
- - Describing graphical information, adhering to a clear structure.
- - Developing listening and understanding abilities of the main content of authentic texts related to various types of speech (message, narrative, interview, etc.).
- - Developing skills to express thoughts and opinions in interpersonal and business communication in a foreign language.
- - Writing specific messages developing a certain position, giving arguments for/against a certain point of view and explaining the pros and cons of solutions, evaluating various ideas and options for solving problems.
- Speaking: 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)
Course Contents
- What is leadership?Understanding what leadership means in business
- Organizations and operationsUnderstanding the types of company organizations
- Production management.Understanding the production management system
Assessment Elements
- Oral assessmentThe final grade is composed of the following parts: 25% - 3 Tests (writing, listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary test) +20% - Speaking + 25% +30% Final Test. Grading scale: 10=95-100%, 9=88-94%, 8=81-87%, 7=74-80%, 6=66-73%, 5=58-65%, 4=50-57%, 3=41-49%, 2=31-40%, 1=less than 31%.
- DISCUSSION
- Independent work assessmentThe final grade is composed of the following parts: 25% - 3 Tests (writing, listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary test) +20% - Speaking + 25% +30% Final Test. Grading scale: 10=95-100%, 9=88-94%, 8=81-87%, 7=74-80%, 6=66-73%, 5=58-65%, 4=50-57%, 3=41-49%, 2=31-40%, 1=less than 31%.
- REVIEWLevel/track specific criteria (max 1 point) 1 point – 0 points –
- Шкала оценивания
- DIALOGUE
- MONOLOGUE
- PRESENTATIONVisual Aids (max 2 points): 2 points – the visuals are prepared in a certain style consistent throughout the presentation and well readable (font, color); each visual has a heading relevant to the overall theme of the presentation, conforming to the academic register; each visual contains only key words and phrases without complete sentences; presentation as a whole has an adequate balance of graphic and verbal information; 1 point – the visuals are well readable (font, color), contain both complete sentences and key words and phrases, presentation has a disbalance of graphic and verbal information; 0 points – the visuals are not well readable, and do not conform to the academic register.
- Written assessment
- Final assessmentThe interim exam lasts 70 minutes. The exam is a 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 (L) and Writing (W) that weigh 50% and 50% respectively in the total mark for the exam: Listening (L): Listen to the text ONCE and complete the tasks. Max. 10 points. Writing (W): Read the text. Write a summary on the text you have read. A student should write a 150-word summary. Students have no more than 20 minutes to complete the Listening (L) part and 50 minutes to complete the Writing (W) part. Grading formula: L*0,5 + W*0,5 = 10 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%. Writing is assessed against the criteria. Period of FA: 10 days prior to the 2nd 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. The structure of the exam: 1. Listening (L): Listen to the text ONCE and complete the tasks. Max. 10 points. Students have no more than 20 minutes to complete the Listening (L) part. 2. Writing (W) Read the text. Write a summary on the text you have read. A student should write a 150-word summary. Students have 50 minutes to complete the Writing (W) part. Grading formula: L*0,5 + W*0,5 = 10.
