Communication Skills in English I.

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Teaching results:
Knowledge:
- Acquire knowledge of the socio-cultural aspects of Anglophone countries.
- Acquire an orientation in the linguistic devices of different genres such as narrative, description, reflection, etc.
- Acquiring active learning strategies to develop listening and reading comprehension.
- Understanding non-verbal forms of communication.
Competences:
- Developing the ability to initiate, maintain and terminate communication by effectively taking turns with a communication partner.
- Deepening the ability to reliably convey detailed information, express ideas with sufficient precision and develop discussion on familiar topics.
- Improving the ability to adapt one's means of expression to the situation and the recipient and to adapt to changes in the course of the conversation.
Skills:
- The course focuses on practical language, developing students' linguistic communication skills in English in accordance with the requirements of their field of study.
- The achievement of communication skills that enable students to understand and communicate appropriately in oral and written expressions in the target language.
- Students will be able to work with a wide range of authentic spoken and written texts in English and carry out subsequent tasks and activities.
- Develop the ability to create and comprehensibly develop monologic genres such as narrative, description, reflection, etc., to use linking expressions in order to capture the relationship between ideas, as well as to engage in dialogue with an English-speaking communicative partner.

Indicative content

Indicative content:
- Narrative communication skills - storytelling as a stylistic procedure and a unit. Talking in
typical and atypical situations.
- Descriptive communication techniques - description as a stylistic procedure and unit.
- Argumentation communication techniques - argumentation, controversy, discussion, debate.
- Interpretive and reflection communication techniques - interpretation and reflection style
procedure.
- Dialogized speech - dialogues in selected communication situations.
- Linguistic means of narration, description, argumentation, explanation and reflection and
dialogue.

Support literature

Support literature:
Required:
1. LATHAM-KOENIG, Ch.; OXENDEN, C. et al.: English File Upper-Intermediate Students Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019.
2. LATHAM-KOENIG, Ch.; OXENDEN, C. et al.: English File Advanced Students Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019.
3. GOWHER AHMAD NAIK (ed.): Advanced Communication Skills. Punjab: Lovely Professional University. 2011.
Optional:
1. HANNAWA, A.F.; SPITZBERG, B.H.: Communication Competence. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 2015.
2. JEYA SANTHI, V.; SELVAM, R.; PHIL, M.: Advanced Skills for Communication in English: Book I. Chennai: New Century Book House. 2015.

Requirements to complete the course

Requirements to complete the course:
Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Total study load (in hours):
Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
30 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

English

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 18.05.2022