Communication Skills in English II.

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Teaching results:
Knowledge:
- Acquiring knowledge of the socio-cultural aspects of English-speaking countries as well as non-verbal forms of communication.
- Acquisition of active learning strategies to develop listening and reading comprehension.
Competences:
- Developing the ability to work with a wide range of authentic spoken and written texts.
- The implementation of targeted tasks and activities will enable students to expand their receptive and productive competence in both oral and written expression.
- Developing the ability to reliably convey detailed information and express ideas with sufficient precision.
- Deepening the ability to express one's own attitudes and opinions and to develop discussion on familiar topics
Skills:
- The course focuses on practical language and the development of 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.
- To deepen the ability to initiate, maintain and terminate communication by effectively alternating with a communication partner, adapting their means of expression to the situation and the recipient, and adapting to changes in the course of the conversation.
- Developing the skills associated with constructing and developing narratives, descriptions, etc. in a clear way and using linking expressions to show the relationship between ideas.

Indicative content

Indicative content:
- Nonverbal communication in theory and practice
- Techniques of presentation skills.
- Creation of narrative units.
- Creation of descriptive units.
- Creation of interpretive and reflection units
- Creating dialogues in typical and atypical situations

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: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 18.05.2022