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Communicative strategies and translation

ОК.12.01

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

1 Semester

4

PLO 2. To have deep knowledge of the official (Ukrainian) and foreign languages for the written and oral communication purposes, professional and scientific communication in particular; to present research results in the official (Ukrainian) and foreign languages. PLO 6. To apply knowledge of expressive, emotional and logical linguistic means, and speech techniques in order to achieve planned pragmatic results and establish successful communication. PLO 10. To collect and pecializat linguistic, literary and folklore facts, to interpret and translate texts of different styles and genres (depending on the specialization elected). PLO 11. To carry out the scientific analysis of linguistic, speech and literary material, to interpret and structure it according to the relevant methodological principles, to generalise information on the basis of independently processed data. PLO 14. To create, analyse and edit texts of different styles and genres.

Full-time form

To speak English at the B2 level, to have developed communicative competence as part of linguistic, sociocultural and pragmatic competences, to know the technology of translation from English into Ukrainian. Know the main functions, types, structure and participants of the communication process; functional styles and genres of English speech. To be able to perceive, select and critically interpret information from English-language sources; decode the speaker's intentions by analyzing communicative strategies in oral and written speech; to create oral and written texts in compliance with the norms of the speech genre; to perform and present educational projects and work in a project group.

The goal of the discipline is to improve students’ English communicative competence in the process of achieving C1 level according to the All-European Recommendations on Language Education (2020) and to increase the effectiveness of communication in the field of academic speech by: acquainting students with the features of academic discourse and systematizing knowledge about communicative (rhetorical) strategies for its implementation , formation of students' skills in oral and written production of academic discourse texts in English, translation of academic texts from English to Ukrainian and from Ukrainian to English; improving the ability to analyze the use of speech means and rhetorical strategies in the genres of academic discourse.

1. Andrews, R. A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric. Routledge: New York & London, 2014. 2. Barnet, S., Bedau, H. Critical Thinking, Reading and Witting: A Brief Guide to Argument. Bedford/St Martin’s: Boston, New York, 2014. 3. Bauer, J., Boyle, M., Stapleton, S. Final Draft (2,3). Cambridge University Press, 2016. 4. Fuhnestock, J. Rhetorical Style in Persuasion. Oxford University Press, 2011. 6. Hinkel, E. Second Language Writer’s Next: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: New Jersey, 2002. 7. Kolln, M., Gray, L. Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects. Pearson Education, 2011. 8. Квасова О.Г. Going for Degree. Professional English for Students of Linguistics: Навчальний посібник. К.: Логос, 2017.

The course provides for the following forms of training organization: practical classes and unsupervised work. The main types of work and the objects of semester control are: classwork, test, essay, group/individual project, modular control work. A student can score a maximum of 80 points for performing the prescribed types of work. The discipline ends with a credit.

Semestral assessment is based on the oral testing, written assignments, essays, modular test papers, and final test paper (max. 100 points, min. 60 points). The credit point is given based on the results of the student’s work throughout the entire semester and does not require additional assessment measures. Students who scored 60 points, the required minimum, receive “passed”. Students who failed to score 60 points, the required minimum, receive “failed”. Those students who scored totally less than 60 points during the semester period should complete a test paper in the items which he/she failed to pass. Final score 60-100 – passed; 0-59 – failed.

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