Part 2. General English Part 2.1. Interactive Listening
Course: English Studies and Two Foreign Languages
Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Title
Part 2. General English Part 2.1. Interactive Listening
Code
ОК 01.02
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2022/2023
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
9
Learning outcomes
PLO2, PLO3, PLO7, PLO8, PLO9, PLO10, PLO11, PLO12, PLO14, PLO19
The detailed list of learning outcomes is given in the section «Educational Program Profile»
Form of study
Distance form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
The program is created for students who studied English at secondary school and have the appropriate level of training. The student must know: the principles of language analysis, the features of memorising and its further reproduction in the communication process, approaches to identifying common and distinctive features, comparing and contrasting facts and events from the listened message; be able to: predict the content, highlight the most informative parts of messages, determine the topic, idea and main content of audiotext, establish the logical sequence of audiotext; have basic skills: completing the missing part, based on their own experience and the context concerning the linguistic topics; establishing the connection between audio information and visual support; establishing the relationship between the facts, causes, events and consequences of the audio message; conversion of the received information into large or small language units.
Course content
The education program of the discipline is designed for the first year students in compliance with the new education program of the Institute of philology of Taras Shechenko National University of Kyiv. This programme is a part of a practical course of the English language. Listening training is based on the basic principles of the communicative approach to learning a foreign language using authentic materials and modeling real communicative situations. It is aimed at the ability to understand a foreign language when listening once or twice with or without visual nonverbal support and its subsequent use in various types of communicative situations. Teaching methodology includes interactive, artistic approach to presenting materials and doesn’t set limits on teacher’s and students’ creative initiative.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Bell J., Gower R., Hyde D. Advanced Expert CAE, Coursebook. Longman, 2006. 207 p.
2. Dunkel Patricia A., Lim Phyllis L. Intermediate Listening Comprehension. Third Edition. Thomson Heinle, 2006. – 193 p.
3. Evans V., Dooley J. Upstream Intermediate B2, Student’s Book. Express Publishing, 2008. 201 p.
4. Evans V., Dooley J. Upstream Intermediate B2, Workbook. Express Publishing, 2008. 175 p.
5. Evans V., Obee B. Upstream Upper Intermediate B2+, Student’s Book. Express Publishing, 2009. 264 p.
6. Kenny N., Luque-Mortimer L. First Certificate, Practice Tests Plus with key. Longman, 2011. 176 p.
7. Oxenden C., Latham-Koenig Ch. New English File Advanced, Student’s Book. Oxford University Press, 2014. 193 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The curriculum includes such activities:
• oral answers in practical classes;
• presentations;
• exercises performed as individual work; creative tasks.
Assessment methods and criteria
Term assessment:
• students can get the maximum of 20 points for the term,
• oral answers in practical classes: TR 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3 – 5 points
• presentations: TR 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3, 4 – 5 points (5 * 2 = 10)
• exercises performed as individual work; creative tasks: TR 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3, 4 – 5 points
Final assessment is conducted in the form of an exam: The points students get for this discipline are summed up with the points for the course "Part 2. General English (2nd term)".
Students who scored a total ("General English": Part 2 and Part 2.2.) of less than the critical minimum (36 points) are not allowed to take the exam.
Language of instruction
English
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline