Text Analysis and Comprehension 2

Lecturer:

Dunstan Clarke (gar.), Hana Čápová (gar.)

Tutor:

Dunstan Clarke (gar.), Hana Čápová (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course is a sequel to course 04ABO1 and focuses on guided writing (e.g. note-taking, précis, abstracts). It is intended as preparation for writing the bachelor´s project by developing text grammar practice and acquainting with baasics of English punctuation.

Requirements:

Student will have passed course 04ABO1

Syllabus of lectures:

Formal English for Specific Purposes vocabulary, noun compounds, conjunctions, linking words, paragraphing (topic and final sentences), reading strategies, note taking, extracting specific information, formal written communication (CV, polite request, letter of application), definitions, classification.

Syllabus of tutorials:

The course is run as a series of seminars following the topics and scope of the syllabus mentioned above.

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

Specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical means used in technical texts and writing: formal and subtechnical English, nominalisation, conjunctions, and functions; text grammar, forms of reading, formal written communication.

Skills:

To use acquired language competence and functions (definitions, classification of phenomena and describing processes), in writing short communications and reports, CV and personal statement) and thus to obtain a complex picture of English in professional practice. To make use of various forms of reading for retrieving information.

To prepare for examination 04ABO2.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] R.R.Jordan, Academic Writing Course, Longman 2009

[2] R.Williams, Panorama, Longman 1994

[3] materials prepared by the Department of Languages

Recommended references:

[4] topics downloaded from the Internet

[5] dictionaries

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: