(in Polish) Academic Language Skills: Reading, writing and speaking 3

obligatory courses

Course content:

• Speaking, writing and reading exercises based on the following topic areas: culture, globalisation, manipulation, authority, gender, race, history, country and nationality

• analysis of selected academic texts

• reading and discussing academic texts pertaining to the chosen specialty

• using the Internet and traditional data-base queries

• formulating critical opinions and supportive arguments

• using formal language as required by the chosen specialty

• giving academic presentations

• coordinating academic group discussions

Organisation of meetings:

• Discussion on academic text(s)

• Essay writing practice

• Individual presentations

Literature:

Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, 1994. Writing and reading across the curriculum. New York: Longman

Adams-Tukiendorf Małgorzata and Rydzak Danuta, 2012. Developing Writing Skills : A Manual for EFL Students. Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski

Oshima Alice and Hogue Ann, 2006. Writing Academic English. New York: Pearson

Course aims:

The aim of the course is to help students achieve fluency in discussing various topics in the academic context; to familiarize students with academic vocabulary and grammatical constructions characteristic for academic writing; to improve speaking, listening and writing skills needed for studying in English

Knowledge

Graduate knows and understands:

1. in the advanced degree – selected facts, objects and phenomena of language and linguistic theories explaining complex dependencies, forming the basic general knowledge in the field of English philology and selected issues of the detailed knowledge of linguistics (k-W-1)

2. the place and significance of philological science among humanities and the directions of its development (k-W-2)

3. theories, methodology and general and detailed terminology of literature and cuture (k-W-3)

4. methods of analysis and interpretation of texts in SLA (k-W-4)

5. rules of the protection of intellectual and industrial copyright (k-W-7)

Skills

Graduate can

1. use their philological knowledge - formulate and solve problems concerning the use of language as well as linguistic knowledge, and perform tasks in not fully predictable conditions thanks to:

- proper selection of sources and information, evaluation, critical analysis and synthesis of that information (k-U-1)

2. recognize texts and carry out their critical analysis and interpretation with the use of standard philological methods allowing for an assessment of their relevance (k-U-3)

3. communicate with the use of specialized terminology for the English language description (k-U-4)

4. take part in a debate - present and evaluate different opinions and positions in terms of philology and discuss them (k-U-5)

5. use English as a foreign language at the level of at least C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages (k-U-6)

6. plan and organize individual and team work (k-U-7)

Social competence

Graduate is ready to

1. critically assess their philological knowledge (k-K-1)

2.fulfil social obligations to and co-organise actions (k-K-2)

Course requirements and methods of evaluation

• Academic vocabulary tests

• Presentation’s evaluation

• Coordination of discussions

• Getting ‘pluses’ for active participation

Coordination of discussions (in pairs) – coordinators’ responsibilities:

• Selection of two academic texts for discussion (focus on Applied Linguistics!)

• Distributing the texts to peers and the teacher (in print) at least a week before the discussion

• Preparing discussion questions to the group

• Coordinating the discussion