2026/2027
Английский язык для специальных целей. Филология - 2
ID 1210140
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Где читается:
Факультет гуманитарных наук
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
80
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to students
of the BA and MA degree curricula while mastering the optional course
of English in accordance with the Concept of developing Foreign Language communicative competence of students of Higher School of Economics
—National Research University.
The goal of this course is to help Philology programme students master
a range of linguistic and text analysis skills. Students will be introduced
to the close reading technique as well as basic linguistic concepts and
literary theory in English. The course is structured as a propaedeutic step
necessary for students taking further courses in English. Students will read
and comment upon 16-20th c. texts of various difficulty levels. At the end
of the semester students are supposed to present individual and group
projects on text analysis. The final grade consists of the following elements: 0.1 for attendance, 0.1 for the English Grammar and Vocabulary Test, 0.1 for the home assignment, 0.2 for the written assessment, 0.2 for the oral assessment, and 0.3 for the final assessment. There are no blocking elements. The prerequisite for course enrolment is a minimum score of 70 points on the Midterm Test.
Learning Objectives
- To introduce students to the basic principles of working with English prose texts of various kinds, including both literary sources and secondary literature.
- To prepare students for further academic activities in English as part of their HSE bachelor’s programme (i.e., English Academic Writing course and other disciplines in English, MOOCs, etc.) and in a wider English-speaking academic environment.
- To improve critical reading skills, enabling students to analyse different writing strategies.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Find and analyze academic texts to assess students' relevance to their own research; articulate and assess the author’s thesis, purposes, audiences, writing strategies, contexts, bias, and credibility; follow academic lectures and debates.
- Understand dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; understand lectures; use basic listening techniques; take notes.
- Prepare an own text analysis and orally present its summary in a clear way. Produce dialogues on general topics (active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing); monologues: descriptive/informative/reasoning.
- Use electronic databases (i.e. JSTOR, ProQuest etc.) to shape the research bibliography.
- Produce their own written commentary to the given literary text, use the basic principles of English academic writing; have a good command of written and spoken English language corresponding to the advanced level, i.e., know and use effectively a variety of grammar structures and vocabulary, spell words correctly; identify and use professional vocabulary. Text genres available for the student: Summary; Essay (opinion, discussion); E-mail (business correspondence); CV.
- Read English literary texts from different periods (16th-20th c.); use different types of dictionaries and grammars; know the difference between various types of critical editions.
Course Contents
- 1. An Introduction to Critical Reading of English Literature (16th-20th c.)
- 2. Basic Concepts of Text Analysis
- 3. Talking about Different Opinions: Reading Secondary Literature
- 4. Finding Academic Texts: An Introduction to Research Databases
- 5. Presenting Ideas: Final Projects
Assessment Elements
- AttendanceThe element’s weight in the final grade – 10%
- English Grammar and Vocabulary TestThe element’s weight in the final grade – 10%. Students take English Grammar and Vocabulary Test in class.
- Home Assignment (HA)The element’s weight in the final grade – 10%. HA includes oral and/or written tasks that are assigned to students for independent completion and submission. Students do the tasks at home and either turn them in to their teachers or submit them via Smart LMS for grading.
- Written Assessment (WA)The element’s weight in the final grade – 20%. WA consists of minimum 4 tasks of different types, including interim ones (for example, essays, graph descriptions, reviews, reports). WA can also include annotations, emails, listening and reading tasks, grammar and vocabulary tasks at the end of a section or topic. WA refers to written tasks that students complete in class.
- Oral Assessment (OA)The element’s weight in the final grade – 20%. OA consists of minimum 3 tasks of different types, including interim ones (for example, a monologue for 1-year students as well as dialogues and presentations) that students do in class.
- Final Assessment (FA)The component’s weight in the final grade – 30%.
Interim Assessment
- 2026/2027 4th module0.1 * Home Assignment (HA) + 0.2 * Written Assessment (WA) + 0.1 * Attendance + 0.2 * Oral Assessment (OA) + 0.3 * Final Assessment (FA) + 0.1 * English Grammar and Vocabulary Test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Academic writing: from paragraph to essay, Zemach, D. E., 2005
- English for academic study: Reading : course book, Slaght, J., 2006
- Английский язык для академических целей. English for Academic Purposes : учебник для вузов / Т. А. Барановская, А. В. Захарова, Т. Б. Поспелова, Ю. А. Суворова ; под редакцией Т. А. Барановской. — 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2026. — 203 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-18544-7. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/583672 (дата обращения: 02.07.2026).
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Presenting in English : how to give successful presentations, Powell, M., 2002