Foreign Language

Semenova Svetlana Danilovna

The instructor profile

Description: Within the course, the student masters the skills of reading, listening, writing and speaking; develops practical knowledge of a foreign language necessary for its active use in everyday communication. In the process of learning basic foreign language, communicative, linguistic and socio-cultural competencies are formed.

Amount of credits: 10

Пререквизиты:

  • Иностранный язык. Школьный курс
  • Иностранный язык. Школьный курс

Course Workload:

Types of classes hours
Lectures
Practical works 45
Laboratory works
SAWTG (Student Autonomous Work under Teacher Guidance) 30
SAW (Student autonomous work) 75
Abstract
Form of final control Abstract
Final assessment method Written exam

Component: Mandatory component

Cycle: Secondary disciplines

Goal
  • Training in practical knowledge of a foreign language for its active use in everyday communication.
Objective
  • Teaching a student a certain amount of language knowledge of ethno-cultural and universal character, implementation, humanization of training of a future technical specialist.
Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding
  • Formation of a system of knowledge of national and cultural characteristics and realities of the country of the language being studied; Knowledge of the main linguistic phenomena, grammatical, and syntactic structures, lexical language units in a certain amount: - vocabulary: word-formation models, contextual meaning, lexical structure of language - grammar: the most frequent specific grammatical phenomena and basic natural-humanitarian and technical sublanguage. Understanding the main points of clear standard input on various topics, typically associated with work, school, leisure time, etc.
Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding
  • Application of the acquired knowledge when communicating in most everyday situations that typically occur at work, school, leisure, etc. or while staying in the country of the language being studied; in oral and written communication, when working with literature in a foreign language.
Learning outcome: formation of judgments
  • Forming critical judgments in a particular area of knowledge in a foreign language in: dialogic speech-communication in most situations that occur during the stay in the country of the language being studied; participation without prior training in dialogues on a familiar / interesting topic (for example, "family", "hobby", "work", "travel", "current events"). monologue speech – building simple coherent statements about their personal impressions, events, their dreams, hopes and desires; brief justification and explanation of their views and intentions; a statement of the story or plot of a book or movie and an expression of one's attitude to it. Writing - writing simple connected texts on familiar or interesting topics; letters of a personal nature, informing them about their personal experiences and impressions.
Learning outcome: communicative abilities
  • The ability to participate in a conversation; explain yourself with a certain number of pauses and descriptive expressions on topics such as family, Hobbies, pastimes, work, travel, and current events. Ability to accurately use a set of constructs associated with familiar, regularly occurring situations. The ability to speak clearly, despite the fact that pauses for searching for grammatical and lexical means are noticeable, especially in statements of considerable length. The ability to start, maintain, and end a one-on-one conversation if the topics of discussion are familiar or individually relevant.
Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities
  • Skills in forming intermediate and global goals for learning a foreign language; speech skills (reading, writing, listening, oral communication); skills in organizing independent work in the study of language material
Teaching methods

Interactive practical lesson ("Questions-answers-discussion")

Educational games

Case study

Problem-solving learning

Project

ICT search method

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

Period Type of task Total
1  rating Work in class 0-100
Homework
Speaking
Reading
Rating control 1
2  rating Work in class 0-100
Homework
Speaking
Reading
Rating control 2
Total control Abstract, Exam 0-100
The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type
Type of task 90-100 70-89 50-69 0-49
Excellent Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

  • 40% of the examination result;
  • 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

FG = 0,6 MT1+MT2 +0,4E
2

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Alphabetical grade Numerical value Points (%) Traditional grade
A 4.0 95-100 Excellent
A- 3.67 90-94
B+ 3.33 85-89 Good
B 3.0 80-84
B- 2.67 75-79
C+ 2.33 70-74
C 2.0 65-69 Satisfactory
C- 1.67 60-64
D+ 1.33 55-59
D 1.0 50-54
FX 0.5 25-49 Unsatisfactory
F 0 0-24
Topics of practical classes
  • Hello! About myself Grammar: Indefinite Article
  • My Family Grammar: Definite Article
  • My daily routine Grammar: Personal and Possessive Pronouns
  • Different Foods Grammar: Relative and Reflexive Pronouns
  • Shopping Grammar: Present Simple
  • Healthy Way of Life Grammar: Present Continuous
  • Sports Grammar: Present Simple, or Continuous
  • Leisure and Hobbies Grammar: Adverbs of frequency
Key reading
  • Murphy Raymond. Essential Grammar in Use. Elementary. Cambridge University Press. – 2015
  • Liz and John Soars, New Headway, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • Semyonova S.D. Mastering English Grammar. Methodical instructions in English for 1st and 2nd year students of all specialties of EKTU – Ust-Kamenogorsk, 2009 -122s.
  • Azar, Betty Sch., Understanding and Using English Grammar, 4th Edition – 2015
Further reading
  • English File Third Edition, Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden
  • English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary
  • Kazakh-English dictionary S. G. Akhmetova, Zh. B. Tursunbayeva, Zh. I. Iskakova, E. F. Yarovaya. – Almaty: School. – 2006
  • Oxford University Press Resources
  • Cambridge University Press Resources