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Course, academic year 2024/2025
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Academic English I - NJAZ115
Title: Akademická angličtina I
Guaranteed by: Department of Language Education (32-KJP)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Miluša Bubeníková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Miluša Bubeníková, Ph.D.
Andrew Goodall, D.Phil.
Annotation -
The course will include presentations, discussions and academic writing. The course is included in the credit system of the faculty and recommended primarily for postgraduate (i.e., master and PhD) students. Enrollment in this subject is limited.
Last update: Bubeníková Miluša, PhDr., Ph.D. (20.05.2020)
Course completion requirements -

To meet the requirements it is necessary to participate in class regularly, actively work in the classroom and fulfill all homework assignments. The nature of the subject's examination excludes the repetition of such examination.

Last update: Bubeníková Miluša, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.05.2023)
Literature -

K. Paterson with Roberta Wedge, Oxford Grammar for EAP. O.U.P., 2013;

D. Bell, Passport to Academic Presentations. Student’s Book. Garnet Publishing Ltd., 2014;

M. McCarthy, F. O´Dell, Academic Vocabulary in Use. CUP, 2015

Authentic academic materials on computer science, physics, and mathematics.

Last update: Bubeníková Miluša, PhDr., Ph.D. (11.05.2023)
Syllabus -

Topics: language registers - formal, neutral and informal English (spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and style); introduction to academic English; discussion (agreeing, disagreeing, avoiding answering, being critical and polemic); writing (genres of specialized style; structure of academic paper); presentation.

Grammar: grammatical aspects of academic English.

Last update: Bubeníková Miluša, PhDr., Ph.D. (29.04.2024)
 
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