General English Language II.

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Teaching results:
Knowledge:
- Expansion of students‘ vocabulary related to selected topics.
- Acquiring the basic knowledge concerning both the historical development of English and the sources from which the English vocabulary has drawn or draws.
- Gaining orientation in the context of the existing world varieties of English and an overview of the English language standard.
Competences:
- Boosting students’ ability to perceive the level of formality, informativeness, and accessibility of a text.
- Improvement of students’ ability to express themselves actively, in a grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate manner.
Skills:
- Development of students’ language skills.
- Emphasis is laid on the development of students’ ability to produce texts with the required stylistic parameters.
- Expansion of the practical skills in the use of grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate ways of expressing ideas, related to the topics discussed in both oral and written form.

Indicative content

- Established phrases, idioms, phraseologisms and their practical use in everyday
communication;
- Linguistic means of formal and informal communication and their practical use in
communication;
- Historical development of the English language and its influence on contemporary
vocabulary;
- Sources of vocabulary enrichment in the past and at present;
- The status of the English language in a globalized world, the linguistic norm and its practical
functioning;
- Regional varieties of the English language - British vs. American English; European,
Australian, New Zealand, Canadian variants, etc;

Support literature

Support literature:
Required:
1. Dummett, Paul. Life (Advanced) - Student’s Book & Workbook. National Geographic Learning. 2014.
2. McCarthy, Michael, & O’Dell, Felicity. English Vocabulary in Use - Advanced. 3rd Edition. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
Optional:
1. McCarthy, Michael, & O’Dell, Felicity. English Collocations in Use - Advanced. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
2. Tench, Paul. Transcribing the Sound of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511698361 .
3. Hewings, Martin. Advanced Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013.
4. SEIDLHOFER, Barbara. Closing a conceptual gap: The case for a description of English as a lingua franca”. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 11: 133–58. 2001. https://doi.org/10.1111/1473-4192.00011.

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: 16.05.2022