Conducted in terms: 2022/23L, 2023/24L, 2024/25L, 2025/26L

ISCED code: 0231

ECTS credits: 6

Language: English

Organized by: Faculty of Humanities

English for academic purposes 2510-f2ENG1S-EFAP

https://moodle.umk.pl/WHUM/course/view.php?id=1648
https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=6533 (term 2023/24L)
https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=6533 (term 2024/25L)
https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=6533 (term 2025/26L)

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Term 2022/23L:

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Term 2023/24L:

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Term 2024/25L:

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Academic Listening and Speaking (with integrated grammar and lexical development)

Throughout the course, students will practise listening and speaking skills to reach the C1+ level of English proficiency, including grammatical and lexical competence. Speaking tasks will be integrated with listening comprehension activities based on academic lectures and video materials. Topics will be selected according to students’ academic interests.

Content distribution:

- Introduction to course aims and requirements; sharing students’ academic interests

- Diagnostic test (C2 level)

- Main content classes:

Presentation of text
Guided discussions
Follow-up exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary

- Mid-term test: reading comprehension with integrated grammar and vocabulary

Main content classes (continued):
>Presentation of text
>Guided discussions
>Follow-up exercises (grammar and vocabulary for academic writing)

- Final test: academic writing with integrated grammar and vocabulary components

Total student workload

(in Polish) Contact hours with the teacher: - Participation in classes – 30 hrs Self-study hours: - Preparation for classes - 60 hrs - Preparation for assignments – 60 hrs Altogether: 150 hrs (6 ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

(in Polish) The student: W1: has linguistic knowledge in accordance with the C1 + level requirements within academic English - K_W02

Learning outcomes - skills

(in Polish) The student: U1: is able to communicate in English with recipients from various circles, providing them with specialist knowledge regarding a given field of study and ongoing research - K_U05 U2: has language skills in line with the C1 + level requirements within Academic English - K_U14 U3: is able to mediate interculturally - K_U12

Expository teaching methods

- discussion

Exploratory teaching methods

- classic problem-solving
- practical
- presentation of a paper

Online teaching methods

- content-presentation-oriented methods

Prerequisites

(in Polish) Knowledge of English at level c1. Completing the winter semester of the course.

Course coordinators

Term 2024/25L:

Daniel Karczynski

Term 2023/24L:

Monika Linke-Ratuszny
Nelly Strehlau

Term 2022/23L:

Katarzyna Piątkowska

Term 2025/26L:

Grzegorz Koneczniak

Bibliography

Term 2022/23L:

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Term 2023/24L:

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Term 2024/25L:

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Term 2025/26L:

Asplin, W., Monica F. Jacobe and Alan S. Kennedy. 2015. Final Draft Level 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
de Chazal E. and Moore J. 2013. Oxford EAP. A Course in English for Academic Purposes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
MA Stylesheet of the Department of English, NCU.
Mcpherson, R. 2012. English for Academic Purposes. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.

Texts selected by the students and materials developed by the teacher, made available on the Moodle Platform.

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 2510-f2ENG1S-EFAP in USOSweb