English on the modern labour market

English on the Modern Labour Market is the course that combines language education with instruction in job-specific skills and provides carefully graded practice and progressions in the key academic skills, such as listening, reading or speaking, and instructs how to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations. It also equips students with the specialist vocabulary they need to participate successfully within occupational contexts.

Through the combination of vocational subject-specific and general English input, participants will leave the course feeling more confident when using English in the career fields, such as education and training, journalism, text editing, tourism and hospitality, information technology, marketing and public relations.

Required reading:

Selection of texts and materials developed by the teacher, available as PDF documents through the course Moodle site!

Optional secondary sources:

Fitzgerald, Patrick, Marie McCullagh and Carol Tabor Series, ed. Terry Phillips. 2011. English for ICT Studies in Higher Education Studies. Reading: Garnet Education.

Hicks, Wynford. 2007. Writing for Journalists. Second Edition. New York: Routledge.

McLisky, Marie, Series, ed. Terry Phillips. 2012. English for Public Relations in Higher Education Studies. Reading: Garnet Education.

Mol, Hans Series, ed. Terry Phillips. 2008. English for Tourism and Hospitality in Higher Education Studies. Reading: Garnet Education.

Potter, Deborah. 2006. Handbook of Independent Journalism. Bureau of International Information Programs. U.S. Department of States

Samara Timothy. 2006. Typography Workbook: A Real-world Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design. Rockport Publishers.

Assessment methods:

Observation of participation and preparation and homework as well as Moodle assignment completion documented in an activity log (W1, W2, U2, U3, K1)

Quizzes over assigned readings and classroom assignments (W1, W2, U1)

Assessment criteria:

A grade average of at least 60% must be achieved to pass the course.

The course grades will be given in reference to the following criteria:

fail – 0-59%

satisfactory – 60-69%

satisfactory plus – 70-75%

good – 76-85%

good plus – 86-90%

very good – 91-100%

The students are evaluated in accordance with the university regulations, and they must attend all course meetings in a classroom or a distance learning platform. Informed participation in class discussions – based on completion of the assigned reading and supportive collaboration with classmates – is also required. Each class absence has to be excused in the first week after the lesson missed. The final grade percentage will be reduced for every unexcused absence from physical or virtual class or assignment that a student has failed to complete (homework or asynchronous learning).

A grade average of at least 60% must be achieved to pass the course. The students who have failed to obtain the total average grade of at least of 60% are allowed one retake, which is administered in the retake examination session.

Instructors are authorized to refuse credit when the student’s absenteeism rate is around 50% even if the absences have had valid reasons.

Timely completion of assigned tasks is obligatory. In the case of assignments submitted after the deadline or re-submitted, the grade is lowered.

NOTE: all the above principles apply to all kinds of classes: traditional classroom and all the forms of remote teaching situations. In case of online teaching, the tests may likewise be administered remotely in a form facilitating the verification of the achievement of learning outcomes.

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