State exam
- Credits: 10
- Ending: State examination
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
The student possesses a good knowledge of characteristical typological features of the English language mainly from the morphological typology and contrastive linguistics, knowledge about language levels and language means of English; understanding of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in the system of English vocabulary; very good knowledge of terminology from the following discipline and areas: linguistics, economy and law, politology, intercultural communication, European studies; knowledge of theories from the most important specialists from the field of intercultural communication as well as specifications of cultures of English speaking countries; theoretical knowledge of different communication models, rules about leading a discussion, debates and round tables; very good knowledge about the processes of integration in the European Union as well as negative manifestations inside of the EU and from the outside, the relation to different countries. He/she has the skill to use the knowledge obtained during the study at work with general or professional, scientific, and that is linguistic, economy-law text, politology or different social-science text from the point of view of his/her perception, analysis, and interpretation; skills in connection with giving a presentation to the audience, as well as processing the search of the sources for professional and qualification works, searching for information, their assessment and sorting out, final summarization of arguments in favor or against the basic premises, the skills to argue and defend their opinions in discussion in English. The ability and competence to express himself/herself towards the processes of European integration succinctly and language-wise correctly, to take a qualified stand on specific modern manifestations of nationalism within the EU, as well as the topical situation in the Eurozone. He/she gained the communication competencies on the C2 level of Common European Framework of Languages (CEFR) in oral and written forms in the English language.
Indicative content
- English Linguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Intercultural communication in the English language
Support literature
Support literature: Required:
1. BAKER, P. (2006): Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2. GRIFFITHS, P. (2006): An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
3. BARTH, D., SCHNELL, S. (2021): Understanding Corpus Linguistics. New York: Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780367219628
4. KRAMSCH, C.: Language and Culture. OUP 2000
5. LEWIS, R.D.: When cultures collide, Leading across cultures, Nicholas Brealey International, 2010 6. STEFANOWITSCH, A. (2020): Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin. ISBN 978-3-96110-224-2
7. WEISSEr, M. (2016): Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118831885
Optional:
1. PINKER, S. (2000): The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. London: Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
2. McCULLOCH, G. (2019): Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. Montreal: Riverhead Books.
3. HUNTINGTON, S.: Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster paperbacks, 2003
4. BERARDO, K., DEARDORFF, D.K.: Building cultural competence, Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2012
5. SINCLAIR, J. (1991): Corpus, Concordance and Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-437144-1
Requirements to complete the course
Conditions for completion of the subject are to pass the oral part of the state exam successfully. In terms of the oral part of the exam, the student answers the questions from philology and intercultural communication and discusses certain topics in English. He answers the questions from the members of the committee. When assessing the certain parts of the state exam, the following grading system is used: A – excellent – 1 B – very good – 1,5 C – good – 2 D – satisfactory – 2,5 E – sufficiently – 3 FX – unsatisfactory – 4. The overall result is set up as an average of assessments from the certain parts followingly: A – excellent – 1 – average up to and including 1,25 B – very good – 1,5 – average from 1,26 to and including 1,75 C – good – 2 – average from 1,76 to and including 2,25 D – satisfactory – 2,5 – average from 2,26 to and including 2,75 E – unsatisfactory – 3 – average from 2,76 to and including 3,00.
Language whose command is required to complete the course
English
Date of approval: 10.05.2023
Date of the latest change: 20.01.2022