Foreign Language (English)

Course unit code

Course unit title

Foreign Language (English)

Name(s), surname(s) and title of lecturer(s)

Rumyantseva Tatyana Borisovna, associate of the Department of Quality Control of the Faculty of Innovative Technologies, Tomsk State University

Level of course

Intermediate level

Semester

1 semester

ECTS credit

4

Working hours

Contact hours

54

including

Classroom training (active and interactive)

46

Practical experience

8

Self-study

90

Total

144

Work placement

-

Prerequisites

Diploma of higher education (bachelor’s degrees), study of English for a period not less than 3 years

Language of instruction

English

Objectives of the course

Learning outcomes

A student’s assessments methods

Teaching methods

Communication and information technology, business and role-playing games, project method, Internet technology and interactive learning methods.

Course unit content

Course objective – to increase the level of language proficiency achieved in the previous stage of learning; to promote sufficient communicative competence necessary to solve communication problems in different areas of professional and scientific activities; to further self-education.

Gained knowledge and skills.

Gained knowledge - expansion of vocabulary of professional, social and scientific topics; systematization of lexical and grammatical knowledge; techniques of reading comprehension; basic principles of work with professional literature and extraction of the relevant information on a specialty from texts; basic principles of annotation and abstracting; basic techniques of professional literature translation.

Gained skills - oral and reading skills on the basis of professional vocabulary; public speaking skills; skills of speaking English in interpersonal communication and professional activities; skills of discussion in English; basic writing skills needed to prepare publications, abstracts and to carry on correspondence;

free use of English as a means of business communication.

List of Topics

Topic title

Contact hours

Assignments and independent study hours

Everyday English

18

30

Science and Education

18

30

Business English

18

30

Assessment requirements

Ability to understand spoken (monologue and dialogue) speech on different topics; to read and understand specialized literature (with a dictionary); to participate in discussion of topics related to the specialty; to conduct business and personal correspondence; to prepare the oral messages on a given topic; to get professional information and knowledge with the use of the foreign language.

Assessment criteria

Demonstration of the following skills:

-all kinds of speech activity in the foreign language;

-all kinds of reading;

-professional literature translation;

-basic writing skills needed to prepare publications, abstracts and to carry on correspondence;

-basics of public speaking.

The composition of final accumulative mark

Tests on each topic, performance of individual practical tasks and results of independent work.

Author of the course

Rumyantseva Tatyana Borisovna, associate of the Department of Quality Control of the Faculty of Innovative Technologies, Tomsk State University