Academic English Course (CJP/E-AEC)

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6 credits
Lecturer: Mgr. Tereza Guziurová, Ph.D.
Lessons (Lectures + Exercises + Seminars): 0 + 2 + 0 [hours/week]
Semester: Summer
Credit test preceding examination: No
Requirements: B1+ level of English
Teaching method: Seminars, individual work, groupwork, reflection tasks
Examination method: Oral exam assesses student´s speaking performance not only on covered conversation topics, but also their ability to discuss, argue, negotiate current issues at level B2
Status of the course in the degree programme: B. Offered to all degree programmes by the Centre of Foreign Language Education.
Requirements: active participation in discussions and other communicative activities submitting an academic essay

Annotation:

By the end of the course, the student

will have achieved level B 2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference / English Language Portfolio
will have achieved communicative competence in English at level B2, s/he will be able to communicate in everyday situations on familiar topics and activities
will be able to understand the main ideas from a listening text related to everyday life and topics, the student will be able to understand short and clear announcements and instructions
will be able to understand the main ideas from a reading text related to everyday life and topics (e.g. news ads, leaflets, etc.), the student will be able to understand short letters
will have achieved lexical competence related to everyday life and topics
will have achieved grammatical competence at level B2.

Course objectives:

The course aims to develop students' language skills which are required for academic study. Students will analyze the language of academic texts – their lexical, syntactic and structural means. They will examine the differences between formal and informal writing, and the structure of certain academic genres. Students will also improve their discussion and argumentation skills in English

Topics:

The introduction to English academic discourse
Language of academic texts: formal and informal writing
Structure of academic texts: analysing paragraph structure
Coherence and cohesion, cohesive devices
Citation: analysing sources, referring to sources, reporting verbs
Punctuation in English

Literature:

SWALES, J.M. & FEAK, C.B. Academic Writing for Graduate Students. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-472-03475-8.
DE CHAZAL, E. & ROGERS, L. Oxford EAP Intermediate/B1+. A Course in English for Academic Purposes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780194002011.
PATERSON, Ken. Oxford Grammar for EAP. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-432999-6.
MCCARTHY, M. & O´DELL, F. Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-107-59166-0.

Notes:

The oral exam assesses students' speaking performance not only on the conversation topics covered, but also their ability to discuss, argue and negotiate current issues at level B2.

Status of the course in the degree programme: B. Offered to all degree programmes by the Centre of Foreign Language Education.