English language (5th semester)

Course: Turkish language and literature and translation, English

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
English language (5th semester)
Code
ОК.14
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2024/2025
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
LO11. Understand the principles, techniques, and methods for creating oral and written texts of various genres and styles in the national language, Turkish, and English. LO12. Analyze linguistic units, identify their interactions, and characterize the linguistic phenomena and processes that underlie them. LO14. Use Turkish and English, in both oral and written forms, across various genres, styles, and registers of communication (formal, informal, neutral), to solve communicative tasks in the everyday, social, educational, professional, and scientific spheres of life. LO15. Conduct linguistic, literary, and specialized translation studies analysis of texts of various styles and genres. LO17. Collect, analyze, systematize, and interpret facts about language and speech, and use them to solve complex tasks and problems in specialized fields of professional activity and education.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Know: 1) the rules of phonetic delivery for different types of speech (dialogue, monologue) in accordance with the context of intercultural communication; 2) the functional and stylistic norms for the use of lexical units from synonymic series, idioms, and expressions in accordance with the context of intercultural communication; 3) the characteristics of the English language as a coherent system. Be able to: 1) produce prepared or unprepared monologues that summarize and/or supplement the content of what has been heard or seen, adhering to the conventions of genre and style; 2) reproduce the content of what has been read; and express one’s own opinion regarding what has been read or heard, providing supporting arguments. Possess: 1) the skills to apply sociocultural knowledge and abilities in foreign-language communication; 2) the skills to distinguish grammatical structures while reading or listening to a text and to determine their communicative significance.
Course content
The course «English (Multi-Semester Course)» is designed to develop students’ communicative, linguistic, and sociocultural competencies. The course is taught in the fifth semester and is worth two ECTS credits; specifically, it consists of 20 classroom hours of practical instruction and 40 hours of independent study. The program includes four content modules. Module 1 covers the conversational topic “Facts and Figures,” which focuses on the specifics of argumentation, the genre conventions of narrative writing, and the drafting of documents in accordance with the requirements of formal business style, as well as the following grammatical topics: impersonal verb forms; general characteristics of impersonal verb forms: semantic and morphological features; the gerund: its semantic, morphological, and syntactic features. Module 2 is devoted to the conversational topic Light and Darkness and teaches how to format a presentation in accordance with the requirements of academic style; text analysis, and means of expressing expressiveness and imagery. Grammar topics: semantic, morphological, and syntactic characteristics of the infinitive. The course concludes with a current module control.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Clandfield, Lindsay & Jeffries, Amanda. Global Upper-Intermediate Coursebook with Class CDs. MacmillanPublishers Limited, 2012. 166 p. 2. Campbell, Robert & Tennant, Adrian. Global Upper-Intermediate Workbook with key. Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2012. 102 p. 3. J. Dooley, V. Evans. Grammarway 4 Newbury: Express Publishing. 278 p. 4. M. Foley, D. Hall. Advanced Learner's Grammar. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2003. 484 p. 5. R. Hughes. Exploring Grammar in Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 168 6. Watkins, Frances. Global Upper-Intermediate Teacher’s book with Teacher’s Resourse Disc. - Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2012. 165 p. 7. Zemach D. E., Rumisek L.A. Academic Writing from paragraph to essay. - Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2005, 130 p. 8. L.M. Chernovatyi, V.I.Karaban ta in. Praktychna hramatyka anhliiskoi movy z vpravamy : Posibnyk dlia studentiv vyshchykh zakladiv osvity. Vinnytsia: Nova knyha, 2005. 288 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Practical classes, individual work.
Assessment methods and criteria
The semester grade is determined by the points a student earns for performance in practical classes, project preparation, and writing the midterm exam. A student can earn a maximum of 100 points for their work throughout the semester. Assessment of semester work: 1. Performance in practical classes: 12 - 22 points. 2. Project: 20 - 35 points. 3. Module test: 10 - 20 points. 4. Final test (essay): 18 - 23 points.
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Hennadiyivna Tkachenko
Department of methods of teaching ukrainian and foreign languages ​​and literatures
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Department of methods of teaching ukrainian and foreign languages ​​and literatures
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology