Foreign Language

Description: During the course students acquire practical skills of reading, listening, writing and speaking; develop practical knowledge of a foreign language necessary for practice in everyday and professionally-oriented communication. The process of foreign language learning build communicative, linguistic and socio-cultural competences.

Amount of credits: 10

Пререквизиты:

• Foreign Language
• Иностранный язык. Школьный курс

Course Workload:

Component: Mandatory component

Cycle: Secondary disciplines

Goal

• Training in practical foreign language skills to apply in everyday and professional communication.

Objective

• To teach students a certain amount of linguistic skills of ethnocultural and universal character, humanization of training of future technical specialists technical.

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• Building a system of knowledge with national and cultural features and realities of the country of the studied language; knowledge of the main linguistic phenomena, grammatical and syntactic structures, lexical linguistic units in a certain extent: - Vocabulary: educational models, Context meanings of polysemantic words, lexical constructions of language; in grammar: the most frequent specific grammatical phenomena of basic , humanitarian and technical sublanguages. Understanding the main ideas of clear messages made in the literary language on various topics typically arising at work, study, leisure, etc.

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• 1. Using the acquired knowledge in most everyday situations, typically arising at work, study, leisure, etc. or during the stay in the country of the studied language ; in oral and written communication, when working with foreign language literature.

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• Building critical judgments in a certain area of knowledge in a foreign language: dialogue speech - communication in most situations arising during the stay in the country of the language under study; participation without prior preparation in dialogues on a familiar/ interesting topic (e.g., «family», «hobbies», «work», «travel», «current events»). monological speech - the construction of simple coherent statements about personal impressions, events, dreams, hopes and desires; a brief justification and explanation of views and intentions; the presentation of a story or plot of a book or film and expression of attitude. Written speech - writing simple, coherent texts on familiar or interesting topics; personal letters about experiences and impressions.

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• Ability to take part in conversation; explain with some pauses and descriptive expressions on topics such as family, hobbies, hobbies, work, travel and current events. Ability to use relevant constructions associated with familiar, typical situations. The ability to speak is understandable, despite the fact that pauses for search of grammatical and lexical means are noticeable, especially in statements of considerable length. The ability to start, maintain and complete a one-on-one conversation if the topics of discussion are familiar or individually relevant.

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• 1. Skills in the formation of intermediate and global goals of learning a foreign language; skills of speech (reading, writing, listening, oral communication); skills of organizing independent study of language material.

Teaching methods

- Interactive practical session («Questions and Answers») - Learning Games - Reflexive approach to learning - Problem Teaching Methods - Design method - 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.

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

• Family in modern society
• Modern young family and its problems; types of modern families in the world
• Young family budget and main expenditure items
• Types of housing (urban, rural house, apartment)
• Modern design; architecture
• Home improvement; interior decoration
• Entertainment; travel
• Tourism; recreation and wellness

Key reading

• 1.Liz and John Soars. New Headway Fourth Edition. 2019 2.English Grammar in Use. Murphy R. - Cambridge University Press: 218 3. Oxford University Press online Resources https://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/?cc=ro&selLanguage=en 4. Попкова Е.В.,Токтаргалиева К.М. АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК, INTERMEDIATE Методические указания по английскому языку к СРОП и СРО для уровневого обучения по CEFR для студентов всех специальностей – Усть-Каменогорск, 2020

Further reading

• 1.Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden. English File Third Edition 2.English File Third Edition, Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden 3. English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary 4. Англо-казахский словарь = Kazakh-English dictionary С. Г. Ахметова, Ж. Б. Турсунбаева, Ж. И. Искакова, Е. Ф. Яровая. – Алматы: Мектеп. – 2020 5. Cambridge University Press Resources