Text Analysis and Comprehension 2
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
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04ABO2 | Z | 2 | 0+2 | Czech |
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- Lecturer:
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- Supervisor:
- Department of Humanities and Languages
- Synopsis:
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The course is a sequel to course 04APO1 and focuses on guided writing (e.g., note-taking, précis, abstract). It is intended as preparation for writing the bachelor´s project by developing text grammar practice and acquainting with basics of English punctuation.
- Requirements:
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A pass in the 04APO1 course.
- Syllabus of lectures:
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Formal ESP vocabulary, reading mathematical expressions and operations, graph descriptions, description of objects and their functions, description of processes. Specific features of academic language - noun compounds, agreement, parallelism, hedging, paragraphing.
Reading and analysing academic texts - identification and explanation of language features specific to various types of discourse.
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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The course is run as a series of seminars following the topics and scope of the syllabus mentioned above.
- Study Objective:
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Knowledge:
Specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical means used in technical texts and writing: formal and subtechnical English, nominalisation, structures used in various types of formal discourse.
Skills:
To use acquired language competence in various types of communication and thus to obtain a complex picture of English in professional practice. To make use of various forms of reading for retrieving information.
- Study materials:
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Key references:
[1] materials prepared by the Department of Languages
[2] M. McCarthy, F. O´Dell, Academic Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Recommended references:
[1] M. Hewings, Cambridge Academic English (upper intermediate), Cambridge University Press,
2012
[2]
K. Paterson, Oxford Grammar for EAP, 2017
[3] dictionaries
Teaching aids:
language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab
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- Further information:
- No time-table has been prepared for this course
- The course is a part of the following study plans: