Syllabus
Course content
In class 1. Grammar structures (review and practical exercises in Moodle):
Indirect questions
Reported speech
Conditionals
Perfect tenses
Expressing the future
Subjunctive 2. English for academic purposes:
Focus on formal vs. informal vocabulary and style
Participation in researched-based presentations
Self-study 3. Lexical development:
Compulsory vocabulary list for self-study (found in Moodle)
Annotation
English Language Seminar (I, II)
This two-term seminar is designed as a practical language foundation course compulsory for all first-year students on the Anglistika-Amerikanistika bachelor's programme.
It is available only to students of this programme.
Its primary aim is to better equip the student for academic studies in the field by:
– further activating and developing productive skills in both speaking and writing for application in the academic environment
– maximizing proficiency in the receptive skills of reading and listening for application in the academic environment
– consolidating and extending advanced language-structural (grammatical, syntactical) skills
– expanding lexis particularly – although not only – in preparation for study in the specialist field (linguistic terminology etc) and for academic writing in general
– increasing lexical awareness and scope particularly with regard to collocation, synonymity, phraseology and idiomaticity
– working on finer details of pronunciation as and when necessary
– paying attention to English-language style and appropriacy in the academic environment.