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Poslední úprava: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (31.01.2024)
Current affairs materials and topics will be used to teach academic English. These will include written and broadcast news and news analyses, academic journal articles and book chapters, lectures, videos and other current affairs sources. The focus will be on academic English use, grammar, vocabulary, style and structure. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (31.01.2024)
- Enhance students' knowledge of East-Central and European current affairs and issues through reading, writing, listening and discussion. - Develop students' academic writing skills, including academic style, grammar, structure, signpost and generic language. This will enable them to express their ideas and arguments effectively and accurately. - Build students' analytical and critical thinking skills and ability to clearly argue for or against a position, supporting claims with relevant evidence. - Equip students with skills in proofreading for academic style and grammar and editing for structure and content. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (31.01.2024)
Assessment will be based on the following: I Attendance and class participation. -Attendance is mandatory. -If a student is absent, it is his or her responsibility to check the homework to be prepared for the next lesson, including submitting any written assignments due. II Successful completion of 4 writing assignments -The assignments will be short with an emphasis on quality, not quantity. Details of the written content, submission and due dates of written assignments will be given. We will work with the writing assignments as part of our lessons. -Students will be encouraged to focus on their area of academic interest in their writing. -Possible writing assignments: a summary of an academic article, an abstract, review of a book/article/source, a position paper, an argumentative essay, a policy paper, introduction to a seminar paper, a thesis introduction. III Midterm test - One hour test on academic style and grammar. Test date to be emailed. To be given online or in person depending on the covid situation. - Content: academic style, use of articles, qualifying and hedging, passive voice, nominalisation, conjunctions and sentence connectors and subject-verb agreement. If a student does not pass the test he or she can retake it. - The test will consist of fill ins, grammar exercises (e.g. Change the sentence to passive voice.), and editing exercises (e.g. Find and correct the mistake in the sentence. Underline the part that is not in academic style and change it to academic style.).
Evaluation Written assignments will receive feedback on strong points and areas for improvement. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (31.01.2024)
Current affairs sources may include: The BBC; The Economist; written and broadcast news and news analyses; academic journals; European Union reports and analyses; chapters from academic books; videos; Oxford and Cambridge debates and lectures
Academic writing sources: Cambridge Academic English Upper intermediate and Advanced; Oxford EAP Advanced (English for Academic Purposes); British Council English for Academics course; current CJP Academic English courses; IMS thesis information (e.g. “manual” for MA thesis seminars; Methodological Seminar syllabus)
Manchester Academic Phrasebank. This is an excellent reseource for generic academic phrases. https://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/ |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (31.01.2024)
Lessons will be taught in person. Academic writing and European current affairs will be taught using a content-based approach with a focus on East-Central Europe. Expressing and communicating ideas are seen as integral parts of the writing process so the focus will be on active use of academic English through activities including academic writing, listening, debates, discussion, analysis, grammar and style exercises and peer review of writing. Active participation of students will be emphasized using pairwork, groupwork and individual work. |
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Poslední úprava: Pamela Danielle Cotte, M.A. (31.01.2024)
For details see Podmínky zakončení předmětu. |
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Poslední úprava: Pamela Danielle Cotte, M.A. (05.05.2024)
EACH LESSON WILL FOCUS ON ONE CURRENT AFFAIRS TOPIC RELATED TO CEE. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON CURRENT EVENTS.
Lesson 1 Trust in the EU; Euroskepticism; inequality Academic writing: What is academic English?; describing trends Lesson 2 Czech society and politics Lesson 3 Is populism a threat to democracy? The EU response to rule of law violations in Poland and Hungary Lesson 4 Ukraine: European security and defence Lesson 5 United in diversity? economic, social, cultural, North-South Lesson 6 United in diversity? Are post-communist Member States different than other Member States? Case study: stereotypes in football Lesson 7 The European Green Deal: transition from coal in Central Europe Lesson 8 EU structural and investment funds: purpose, solidarity, impact of Brexit, effectiveness, corruption Lesson 9 EU enlargement: Ukraine, Moldova, the Western Balkans Lesson 10 Ageing population as a key economic challenge; immigration Lesson 11 EU strengths; Brexit Lesson 12 European Parliament elections; disinformation
ACADEMIC WRITING CONTENT WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: Academic English style and grammar conventions - academic style principles; qualifying and hedging; use of passive voice; nominalisation; use of articles; subject-verb agreement Essay types and structure; Signposting language; Structuring paragraphs Critical thinking; Supporting claims with evidence; In-text references - connectors (conjunctions), e.g. to express cause and effect; punctuation, e.g. colons, semicolons and commas Content editing and proofreading; Summarizing and paraphrasing; Reporting verbs - editing for structure, academic style, grammar, supporting claims with evidence - Reporting verbs and reporting verb tenses Choosing paraphrase or quotation Introduction to thesis writing; Seminar papers Writing about methodology and data; Academic presentation skills - Explaining methodology and rationale; Discussing and interpreting data in figures, graphs and tables Writing resources: Seminar paper guidelines; The Manchester Academic Phrasebank Thesis structure, parts and exercises Academic presentation skills: presenting a thesis or academic research
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