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ENG 122: COURSE CALENDAR
English Language Department
SYLLABUS
Academic Year 2011-2012
Spring Term
Course: Academic English - ENG 122
Credits: 3
Course/Syllabus Compilers: Svetlana Zhanabayeva, Saule Yeshengazina, Jacob Reid
Date:
Approved by:
Dean A.Sh. Tokmagambetov
Head of the English Language S.K. Abdygapparova
Department
Almaty 2012
Approved
Dean of General Education Faculty
Tokmagambetov A.Sh.
January 2012
SYLLABUS in Academic English (ENG 122)
Credits – 3
| Personal Information on the instructor | Time and place of classes | Contact information | ||
| Lessons | Office Hours | Tel. | ||
| Zhexembiyeva N.R. | Monday Wednesday Friday | TBD | nzhexembieva@yahoo. com |
Prerequisite: Diagnostic Test (Level 4.5 in IELTS format)
Post-requisite: ENG 123 – Business English (Level 5.0 )
Course Description
The course is offered to students who have achieved a 4.5 on the IELTS test. It is designed to raise the students’ language competence to the required international standards of academics and future professional needs. The course requires regular guided practice for all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) concentrating on teaching written expression that is precise and demonstrates higher level thinking skills. Academic English has its own vocabulary and special characteristics that distinguish it from General or Professional English.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
· recognize and understand selected academic words when seen in context;
· develop the micro skills of a competent reader, including skimming, scanning, note-taking, and guessing the meanings of unknown words;
· identify the topic, main idea/thesis, and argument structure when reading and listening;
· distinguish fact from opinion and recognize point of view in reading and listening passages;
· choose a note-taking strategy that enables him or her to best understand and remember lecture content;
· use the writing process (planning, drafting, editing, revising) to clearly express and support an opinion in paragraphs and essays;
· write an extended essay using basic research;
· use APA references and citation style.
LITERATURE:
Required:
- Philpot S., Curnick L. New Headway. Academic Skills: Reading, Writing, and Study Skills. Level 3. Student’s Book. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Campbell, Colin and Jonathan Smith. English for Academic Study: Listening (Course Book). Garnet Publishing, 2007 / Revised Edition 2009. (EASL)
- Zemach, Dorothy E. and Lisa A. Rumisek. Academic Writing: from paragraph to essay. MacMillan, 2005.
- Zwier, Lawrence J. Inside Reading: The Academic Word List in Context 2. Oxford 2009.
- Burgmeier, Arline. Inside Reading: The Academic Word List in Context 1. Oxford 2007.
- Cox, K. and D. Hill. EAP Now! Preliminary. Longman 2007.
Supplementary:
- Adams, W. Royce and Becky Patterson. Developing Reading Versatility 8th Edition. Thomson Heinle 2001.
- Campbell, Colin. English for Academic Study: Vocabulary (Course Book). Garnet Publishing 2007.
- Frazier, Laurie and Shalle Leeming. Lecture Ready 3: Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion. Oxford 2007.
- McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O’Dell. Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge 2008.
- Terry, Morgan and Judith Wilson. Focus on Academic Skills for IELTS. Longman 2004 / New Edition 2010.
ENG 122: COURSE CALENDAR
*Please note that although your instructor(s) will make his/her best effort to adhere to the course calendar, adjustments may be made for a variety of reasons, including holidays, technical problems, and student performance.
| Week | Reading | Listening | Writing | SIS (Project) | ||
| Good study habits | Introduce Cornell Method. | The writing process. Summarizing and paraphrasing | Description of the Project | |||
| Survey, Skim, Scan | Challenges to effective listening | Generating ideas. What is a paragraph? | ||||
| Predicting | Note-taking: Cornell System | Topic sentences and sentence types | Project Stage 1 due | |||
| Paragraph Purpose, Text Cohesion | Introduction to lectures | Paragraph development Editing strategies | ||||
| Info from multiple sources | Identifying key ideas in lectures | Comparison and Contrast Paragraph | Project Stage 2 due | |||
| Distinguishing fact from opinion | Note-taking part I | Problem / Solution Paragraph | ||||
| revision | revision | revision | Project Stage 3 due | |||
| MID-TERM | ||||||
| Reading strategy for longer texts | Note-taking part II | What is an essay? Thesis statements | ||||
| Dealing with unknown words; complex sentences | Introducing new terminology | Outlining an essay | ||||
| Understanding visual information | What lecturers do in lectures | Introductions and conclusions | Project Stage 4 due | |||
| Dealing with longer texts | Digressions | Including sources in your writing | ||||
| Recognizing tone | TBD | Planning and writing a timed essay | ||||
| TBD | TBD | Unity and coherence | Project Stage 5 due | |||
| End-of-Term Test | Revision. | Timed writing practice | ||||
EVALUATION
| Attestation period I (30%) | Attestation period II (30%) | Examination (40%) | |||
| Module 1: In-class assessment Homework (T/SIS) | 10% 5% 5% | Module 3: In-class assessment Homework (T/SIS) | 10% 5% 5% | Listening Reading Writing | 10% 15% 15% |
| Module 2: In-class assessment Homework (T/SIS) | 10% 5% 5% | Module 4: In-class assessment Homework (T/SIS) | 10% 5% 5% | ||
| Mid-term assessment | 10% | End-of-term assessment | 10% | ||
| Total | 30% | Total | 30% | Total | 40% |
| Gross Total |
Deadline schedule
| ¹ | Type of evaluation | Week | Score | |||||||||||||||
| 16-17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Class work | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | ||||
| TSIS | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | ||||||
| SIS | * | * | * | * | * | |||||||||||||
| Mid-term and End-of-term assessment | * | * | ||||||||||||||||
| Final exam | * | |||||||||||||||||
| Total |
EXPLANATORY NOTES
There are two attestation periods worth 30% each. The final exam is 40% of the student’s grade.
In-class assessment includes classwork, quizzes, and participation.
Homework (T/SIS) is work done outside of class and includes regular assignments as well as the project.
Course policies
Academic honesty is expected of all students. Cheating and plagiarism are violations of academic honesty any student found violating the academic policy would receive an automatic “ZERO” for the assignment. Further actions will be taken according to the academic dishonesty policies of the English Language Department, General Education Faculty and KBTU.
Cheating is the act of obtaining information and data improperly or in a deceitful or dishonest way. Examples of cheating are copying from another student’s paper, obtaining information illegally on tests, and using crib notes or deceitful practices.
Late work: All formal papers must be submitted at the beginning of class on the day they are due. There will be a deduction of points. (10% per day)
Please note that it is your responsibility to print assignments well in advance.
Warning: a grade of zero will be given:
• No indication of sources (either in-text or after text)
• Falsification of sources
• Direct plagiarism (taking someone’s words as your own, presenting someone’s ideas as your own)
• Indirect plagiarism (mechanical paraphrases, electronic translations, other cases decided by the instructor)
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