AJ11612 Akademická angličtina online

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2014
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. (plus 2 za zk). Doporučované ukončení: zk. Jiná možná ukončení: z.
Vyučující
PhDr. Jarmila Fictumová (přednášející)
Mgr. Irina Matusevič (pomocník)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Předpoklady
AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II
AJ02001 Introduction to linguistics
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.

Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 20 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/20, pouze zareg.: 0/20
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 7 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
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
Osnova
  • 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
Literatura
  • 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.
Výukové metody
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)
Metody hodnocení
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.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=1833
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Výuka probíhá každý týden.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2015, podzim 2015, jaro 2016, podzim 2016, jaro 2017, podzim 2017.