AJ11612 Academic English Practice Online

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Irina Matusevič (seminar tutor), PhDr. Jarmila Fictumová (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
AJ01002 Practical English II
AJ02001 Introduction to linguistics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This is a fully online course designed to improve students’ academic skills in writing, listening and speaking through individual and collaborative work. Along with revising and learning vocabulary and concepts from the areas of linguistics and academic English, students will work on tasks aimed at developing skills and knowledge essential for successful performance in academic environment:
• Initiating and participating in academic discussion
• Understanding longer oral and written texts on field-specific topics, e.g. textbooks, articles and lectures
• Efficient note-taking
• Understanding the principles of academic text organization, argument building, essay plan writing and essay composition
• Understanding the concept of plagiarism and how to avoid it through citation and paraphrasing
• Compiling a list of sources according to MLA and APA formats
• Performing basic corpus search tasks
Syllabus
  • Each unit consists of vocabulary, reading or listening and extending skills exercises which include additional vocabulary and listening exercises, practice in contribution to discussions, note-taking, academic text organization, argument building, essay planning and writing, citation and paraphrasing, APA and MLA formats and corpus search. Starting from the 5th unit, speaking and writing tasks are also included.
  • Week 1: Reading – Branches of the Linguistic Tree
  • Week 2: Listening – What is Language and Linguistics
  • Week 3: Reading – Manx Lessons
  • Week 4: Listening – Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Week 5: Reading – Beliefs about Grammar, Writing
  • Week 6: Mid-term test, Listening – Key concepts in Sociolinguistics
  • Week 7: Reading – Language on the Internet, Speaking
  • Week 8: Listening – Language Tests, Writing
  • Week 9: Reading – English in Europe, Speaking
  • Week 10: Listening – Careers Using Language, Writing, Proposed week for a webinar
  • Week 11: Reading – The Native Speaker Problem, Proposed week for a webinar
  • Week 12: Listening – International Communication in Today’s Global Environment, Revision
  • Week 13: Final assessment
Literature
  • Graddol, D. (2007). English Next.
  • Loon, J. van, Thüss A., Schmidt N., & Hainess, K. (2011). Academic writing in English: A process-based approach.
  • Manning, A. (2008). English for language and linguistics in higher education studies. Course book.
Teaching methods
Výukové metody (anglicky): Weekly exercises in Elf; in the second half of the course also: 3 short writing assignments (producing a well-developed paragraph and two essay plans on given topics, approx. 200-250 words each) and peer-review of the texts, 2 speaking assignments (describing a picture and commenting on a topic for approx. 1 minute each) and a webinar towards the end of the course (more details on the course page in Elf)
Assessment methods
Exam: 50% written final test, 25% written task and 25% oral task based on the ones in the course.
Prerequisite for accessing the final test and tasks is 70% completion of all exercises in the course, including a mid-term test. Credit: 70% completion of all exercises in the course, including a mid-term test.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=1833
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017.
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