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Course Syllabus

Bachelor 2024/2025

Practical Course of the English Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Practice of Oral and Written Speech

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Type: Compulsory course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies: Linguistics
Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages
Where: School of Foreign Languages
When: 2 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Кульков Даниил Андреевич, Михеева Наталья Дмитриевна, Алешин Виталий Сергеевич, Греченко Анастасия Александровна, Elena Ananeva, Alina Budnikova, Anna Kirianova, Daria Mazurova, Daria Ulkhanovna Mirzaeva, Anna Andreevna Samoilova, Elena Styrina, Сарайва Сан Педро Даниел
Language: English
ECTS credits: 10

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

The “Practical Course of the English Language” is designed for the first and second-year students of the Undergraduate Programme “Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication” and aims at developing students’ English language communicative competence at B2+/C1 levels according to the Common European Framework of Reference. The course immerses students into the field of professional academic interaction focusing on skills and products relevant for successful university education performance. The course syllabus incorporates a wide range of academic input featuring up-to-date discussion topics and providing students with a variety of activities involving individual, group, and project contact and self-study work, receptive, productive, and integrated skills assignments, as well as SMART LMS training.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • enhance English pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar skills
  • develop effective listening, reading, and note-taking skills to work with different types of academic and non-academic input
  • develop academic and non-academic communication writing skills
  • develop academic and non-academic communication speaking skills
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • To be able to adopt various reading strategies (skimming, scanning, identifying gist and differentiating details, inferring meaning from context, comprehending writer’s attitude)
  • To use a broad range of target vocabulary units, grammatical forms, and phonetic phenomena in communication practice
  • To choose the most appropriate listening and note-taking strategies based on the listening purpose
  • To effectively produce diverse forms of both spoken and written communication tailored for various contexts, including but not limited to academic assignments, professional presentations, informal discussions, formal correspondence, and creative writing tasks
  • To demonstrate proficiency in adapting language use according to audience expectations, purpose, register, and genre conventions across different communicative situations
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • 1. ‘To have another language is to possess a second soul.’ Charles the Great
  • 2. 'If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.' Buddhist Saying
  • Module 3. ‘Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.’ Stephen Covey
  • 6. 'Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.' Oscar Wilde
  • 3. ‘The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 4. 'What we think, we become.' Buddha
  • 5. 'All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.’ Karl Marx
  • Module 4. 'The things you own end up owning you.' Tyler Durden
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Academic Progress
    The control element assesses student’s work that includes, but is not limited to, the following constituent parts: engagement in class activities, completion of home assignments, self-study activities, proactiveness and resourcefulness.
  • non-blocking Language Systems
    The control element assesses grammar, lexis, phonology and discourse in-class quizzes.
  • non-blocking Language Skills
    The control element assesses listening, reading tests; speaking, writing communicative assignments.
  • non-blocking Smart LMS Self-Study
    The control element assesses completion of online tests in Smart LMS.
  • non-blocking Exam Year 1 Module 2
    The control element assesses target oral and written communication products of the Module(s).
  • non-blocking Exam Year 1 Module 3
    The control element assesses target oral and written communication products of the Module(s).
  • non-blocking Exam Year 1 Module 4
    The control element assesses target oral and written communication products of the Module(s).
  • non-blocking Exam Year 2 Module 1
    The control element assesses target oral and written communication products of the Module(s).
  • non-blocking Exam Year 2 Module 3
    The control element assesses target oral and written communication products of the Module(s).
  • non-blocking Exam Year 2 Module 4
    The control element assesses target oral and written communication products of the Module(s).
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 2nd module
    0.2 * Academic Progress + 0.25 * Exam Year 1 Module 2 + 0.25 * Language Skills + 0.25 * Language Systems + 0.05 * Smart LMS Self-Study
  • 2023/2024 3rd module
    0.2 * Academic Progress + 0.25 * Exam Year 1 Module 3 + 0.25 * Language Skills + 0.25 * Language Systems + 0.05 * Smart LMS Self-Study
  • 2023/2024 4th module
    0.2 * Academic Progress + 0.25 * Exam Year 1 Module 4 + 0.25 * Language Skills + 0.25 * Language Systems + 0.05 * Smart LMS Self-Study
  • 2024/2025 1st module
    0.15 * Academic Progress + 0.3 * Exam Year 2 Module 1 + 0.25 * Language Skills + 0.25 * Language Systems + 0.05 * Smart LMS Self-Study
  • 2024/2025 3rd module
    0.15 * Academic Progress + 0.3 * Exam Year 2 Module 3 + 0.25 * Language Skills + 0.25 * Language Systems + 0.05 * Smart LMS Self-Study
  • 2024/2025 4th module
    0.15 * Academic Progress + 0.3 * Exam Year 2 Module 4 + 0.25 * Language Skills + 0.25 * Language Systems + 0.05 * Smart LMS Self-Study
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Strongman, L. (2013). Academic Writing. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=816736

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Academic project presentations. Student's workbook: Презентация научных проектов на английском языке : Учеб. пособие для вузов, Кузьменкова, Ю. Б., 2009

Authors

  • BUDNIKOVA ALINA ALEKSANDROVNA
  • Molchanova EKATERINA SERGEEVNA
  • Bogolepova Svetlana Viktorovna