The discipline refers to the educational tracks offered to students of the curricula for bachelor's degree while mastering the optional course of English in accordance with the Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students. The course is designed to help the students communicate effectively in the workspace using the language of business, building effective business communications. The course offers practical training in functional business skills such as collaboration, challenging conversations, presentations, analysing risk and maintaining relationships, which allows for personalization of the learning experience with a structured modular approach that gives the flexibility to focus on specific needs and learning outcomes.
Learning Objectives
To acquire language mastery relevant to common business communication areas, through enhancement of business vocabulary and grammar.
To master presentation agility and fluency with the various skills, practical training in functional business areas such as presentations, negotiations, meeting facilitation, and brainstorming.
To acquire basic skills in reading, listening, writing and speaking in the academic environment.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Develop skills of target listening and extracting information from texts of various types (lectures, interviews, discussions, etc).
To develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details)
To develop skills of using basic reading techniques skimming and scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details)
To improve understanding of dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics
To develop understanding of lectures and learning context
To develop skills in giving a presentation (can give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions) - optional
To develop skills in writing e-mails (business correspondence)
To develop skills in writing essays.
To develop skills of participating in debates (active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing, discussion strategies)
To develop skills of writing emails.
to take part in discussions and give logically structured talks on various professionally oriented issues, providing reasons for their opinions, and expressing themselves fluently and spontaneously without obvious searching for expressions B2+
to develop skills in writing essays
Develop skills in delivering a monologue (informative/descriptive/reasoning)
Develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details)
To develop skills in delivering a monologue: informative, descriptive, reasoning
To develop skills of participating in dialogue on general, academic, and professional topics: active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing, discussion strategies
To develop skills in describing graphs, pie charts, tables, bar charts, maps, diagrams, processes
To develop presentation skills for both individual and team projects
Develop skills of using basic reading techniques (understanding main ideas and details)
Develop skills of target reading and extracting information from texts of various types (articles, blogs).
Course Contents
Economics in the modern world
Management
Marketing
Finance
Alliances
Business risks
Government and business
Assessment Elements
Written assessment
essay, email, grammar test, vocabulary test
Oral assessment
Presentation, monologue
Individual work assessment
Winter test
reading, listening
Final Assessment
listtening, reading, writing, speaking
Interim Assessment
2024/2025 2nd module
0.25 * Individual work assessment + 0.2 * Oral assessment + 0.3 * Winter test + 0.25 * Written assessment
2024/2025 4th module
0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Individual work assessment + 0.2 * Oral assessment + 0.25 * Written assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
Business partner B2+ : coursebook, , 2019
Giffin, J., & Willis, L. (2009). Business Communication Skills: Self-Marketing and Discussion Skills. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.543D151D
Murray, N. (2012). Writing Essays in English Language and Linguistics : Principles, Tips and Strategies for Undergraduates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=438550
Sankrusme, S. (2017). International Business Correspondence. Anchor Academic Publishing.
Красильникова, И. В. Business correspondence. Деловая переписка : учебно-методическое пособие / И. В. Красильникова. — Воронеж : ВГАС, 2022. — 52 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/310373 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Платова, Е. Д. Effective Presentations in English : учебное пособие / Е. Д. Платова. — Оренбург : ОГУ, 2019. — 140 с. — ISBN 978-5-7410-2406-5. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/160030 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
A dictionary of business and management, , 2009
English for business studies : a course for business studies and economics students: student's book, MacKenzie, I., 2012
English for business studies : a course for business studies and economics students: teacher's book, MacKenzie, I., 2010
Self, R. (2016). Giving effective academic presentations. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EB2D8CDD
Бортникова, Т. Г. Деловая корреспонденция на английском языке. Business Correspondence in English : учебное пособие / Т. Г. Бортникова, И. Е. Ильина, С. А. Лычаная. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2022. — 128 с. — ISBN 978-5-9765-4905-0. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/201383 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Осиянова, А. В. Develop your speaking skills : учебное пособие / А. В. Осиянова. — Оренбург : ОГУ, 2018. — 112 с. — ISBN 978-5-7410-2072-2. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/159790 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Instructors
Klepko, Evgeniya Y.
Makarenko, Viktor
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Learning Objectives
Expected Learning Outcomes
Course Contents
Assessment Elements
Interim Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
Recommended Additional Bibliography
Authors