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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Contents of the Course: course book: Oxford English for Academic Purposes, Intermediate level grammar: R.Murphy: English Grammar in Use subject-related texts studied during the term; grammar and vocabulary exercises based on the subject-related texts studied during the term, including translation, presentation and discussions.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
- Homework for Teaching
- 24 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 8 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course Academic English for Intermediate Students in Humanities will help the students who do philology and literary theory and criticism, classics, history, philosophy, film and theatre studies, art history, musicology: better understand subject-related texts in English; clearly present the results of their research orally and in written form; learn to approach a subject-related text in English so that they could understand it. Winter semester is concerned with oral presentation.
According to the Common European Framework of Reference, the students who take the AAS course should begin at level B1 and are to reach level B2, that is: can understand the main ideas of a complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their fields of specialisation; can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes interaction on a given, previously prepared, subject with native speakers quite possible; can explain their critical viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options; can take notes of an English subject-related text which they are reading or which is being presented; can also express their own critical thoughts on the given theme; can translate, with the use of a dictionary, a fairly difficult English subject-related text into their native language.
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Prerequisites
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The course also allows the students to develop skills most needed both during their academic studies and in their future professions: to read and to understand correctly subject-related texts in English; to express themselves correctly, clearly, and in an organized way, both in oral and written presentations such as seminar or conference papers, dissertations, a.s.o.; to acquire practical translation skills and learn translation techniques; to learn how to use internet sources (reference literature, reliable and subject-related dictionaries, CAT instruments, etc.).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written exam, Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student, Anamnestic Method
Requirements for end of term credits The student must: 1) sign up in the electronic system STAG at the beginning of each semester; 2) attend the classes regularly (a document from the doctor or from the department explaining the reasons for the student´s absence is needed); the student´s absence from a class does not justify failure to fulfil their tasks for the following class; 3) be disciplined, attentive and active in class; 4) prepare their homework on a regular basis; 5) fulfil all their tasks by the end of the examination period of the given semester at the latest.
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Recommended literature
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Edward de Chazal. (2013). Oxford English for Academic Purposes B1+. Oxford University Press.
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O'Dell, F., & McCarthy, M. (2012). Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Raymond Murphy. (2004). English Grammar in Use. A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004). Cambridge.
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