Foreign language

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

Amount of credits: 10

Пререквизиты:

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

Course Workload:

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

Educational games, role-playing games, simulation games. Discussion platform, Press conference, interview. Interactive round table, discussions in small groups (3-5 people). Methods of problem-based learning (case study). Independent work, reflection. Project method. Search method with the use of ICT.

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.

The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type

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:

 

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:

Topics of practical classes

• My family and me
• Young family today
• Relationships between different generations
• My house is my castle
• Humans and their health
• Sport in human’s life Grammar: Gerund or infinitive?
• Leisure

Key reading

• Liz and John Soars. New Headway Fourth Edition. 2015
• English Grammar in Use. Murphy R. - Cambridge University Press: 2004
• Semyonova S.D.Mastering English Grammar. Guidelines for the 1st and 2nd year technical students.- EKSTU-Ust-Kamenogorsk, 2009 -122p.
• Semyonova S.D. English Grammar Lectures and Seminars. Guidelines for the 2nd year technical students, EKSTU, Ust-Kamenogorsk, 2004 – 98p.

Further reading

• Golitsynsky Yu., Golitsynskaya N. Grammar. Exercise Book. The 7th edition, revised and expended. Saint-Petersburg: Caro,2011 – 576p.
• Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden. English File Third Edition
• English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary
• English-Kazakh-Kazakh-English dictionary. S.G. Akhmetova, Zh.B. Tursunbaeva, Zh.I. Iskakova, Ye. F. Yarovaya.- Almaty: Mektep. – 2006
• Oxford University Press Resources
• Cambridge University Press Resources