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ОК 2

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2021/2022

1 Semester

3

PLO 8. To analyze, compare and classify different directions and schools in linguistics and literary criticism. PLO 9. To assess historical and recent achievements in philology. PLO 10. To describe theoretical and practical aspects of a specific philological area, primarily English studies. PLO 18. To participate in highly specialized philological seminars, conferences, scientific circles, and discussions. PLO 19. To formulate and substantiate new ideas, concepts, and theories in a specific philological area.

Full-time form

To succeed, the course requires knowledge of English at the level not lower than B2 of CEFR. In addition, students are supposed to know the theoretical foundations of basic linguistic disciplines, basic linguistic terms, categories, established concepts, theories and schools of thought; be able to use appropriately basic terminology and a conceptual apparatus of linguistics; possess the elementary skills of searching for, obtaining and analyzing information, and dealing with different text genres.

The discipline familiarizes students with the biggest future trends in English language studies. Attention is paid to regional and social variations of English, the impact of social, cultural, and demographic factors on the use of English, as well as methods of corpus linguistics and experimental phonetics for English language studies. The learning tasks aim to get students to put creativity and analytical observations to work, and develop students’ ability to deal with modern language data.

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The modes of the course are lectures and self-study, incl. analytical tasks and multimodal projects. The teaching methods include explanations, illustrations, reproduction, heuristics and research, which help develop students’ analytical skills and unlock their scientific and creative potential.

The form of summative assessment is an exam. The number of points for the exam is 24–40 (pass), the minimum that is added to the points for summative assessment. Students are admitted to the exam if they earn 36–60 points during formative assessment throughout the entire semester. The exam includes a written/oral answer to two theoretical questions (see § 7 of the Syllabus).

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