סילבוס קורס מתקדמים ב

שם ומספר הקורס: אנגלית מתקדמים ב 41022

סוג הקורס: הרצאה (חובה) סמסטר: א/ב/קיץ  היקף שעות:  4 ש"ס

א. מטרות הקורס ותוצרי למידה (מטרות על / מטרות ספציפיות):

מטרת הקורס

Course Purpose and Overview:

The Mitkadmim B course develops students’ academic English proficiency at the advanced level through an integrated approach that aligns with the CEFR’s four communicative language activities – reception, production, interaction, and mediation.

The course strengthens students’ academic English through tasks that reflect authentic university contexts and promote advanced language development. Students enhance their receptive skills by adopting a global approach to reading extended academic texts and by gaining familiarity with the structure and language of empirical research articles. They develop their productive skills through oral and written communicative tasks, such as preparing and delivering academic presentations. Coursework includes both collaborative and individual activities that integrate interaction and mediation, engaging students in discussions and meaning-focused tasks that draw on multiple sources and perspectives. Exposure to a wide range of authentic materials fosters students’ confidence and autonomy as academic language users, preparing them to engage more effectively with scholarly literature, complete research-based assignments in their disciplines, and participate more confidently in English-Medium Instruction (EMI) courses.

By the end of the course, students will demonstrate enhanced ability to participate in academic discourse and communicate with greater competence, confidence, and independence in a range of academic, professional, and social contexts.

תוצרי למידה

Learning Outcomes (CEFR-based):

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following:

Reception

Listening

• Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks, reports, and other forms of academic/professional presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.

• Can distinguish main themes from sub-themes, provided that the lecture or talk is delivered in standard spoken language.

• Can recognize the speaker’s point of view and distinguish this from facts that he/she is reporting.

Reading

• Can understand articles and reports in which particular stances or viewpoints are adopted.

• Can recognize when a text provides factual information and when it seeks to convince readers of something.

• Can scan and skim longer texts to locate specific information and compile relevant details from different sections of a single text or from multiple texts to fulfil a specific task.

• Can recognize different structures in discursive text: contrasting arguments, problem-solution presentation, and cause-effect relationships.

• Can use a range of strategies to aid comprehension, such as identifying main points and verifying understanding through contextual clues.

• Can read with a large degree of independence, adapting style and speed of reading to different text types and purposes, and using appropriate reference sources selectively.

• Can quickly identify the content and relevance of news items, articles and reports on a wide range of academic and scientific topics, deciding whether closer study is worthwhile.

• Can understand specialized articles outside their field, provided they can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm their interpretation of terminology.

• Can navigate authentic empirical research articles to extract relevant information

   

Interaction

Spoken

• Can take an active part in discussion in familiar and less familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining views.

• Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction and sustained relationships with speakers of the target language quite possible without imposing strain on either party.

• Can outline an issue or a problem clearly for the listener/interlocutor, speculating about causes or consequences and weighing advantages, and disadvantages of different approaches.

• Can extract relevant information from research articles and share a comprehensible summary with others whose mother tongue may not be English.

   

Written

• Can express ideas and views effectively in writing and relate to those of others.

• Can engage in online exchanges, linking their contributions to previous ones in the thread and reacting appropriately.

Production

Spoken

• Can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue, giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

• Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view with relevant examples.

• Can give a clear, systematically developed academic presentation, with highlighting of significant points, and relevant supporting detail from a research article and other academic sources.

Written

• Can produce well-organized text that develops an argument systematically with appropriate highlighting of significant points and relevant supporting detail.

• Can respond to or reflect on written and/or spoken sources and summarize the important points made in longer spoken/written complex texts on subjects of current interest, including his/her fields of special interest.

• Can produce coherent text using a range of linking words and cohesive devices.

• Can produce clear, concise research-based writing, such as a research abstract, that accurately reflects the content, purpose, and key findings of the source, using appropriate academic style, structure, and conventions.

Mediation

• Can synthesize and report information and arguments from a number of spoken and/or written sources.

• Can consider two different sides of an issue, giving arguments for and against, and propose a solution or compromise.

• Can work collaboratively with people who have different cultural orientations, discussing similarities and differences in views and perspectives.

• Can make the content of a text on a subject in their fields of interest more accessible to a target audience by adding examples, reasoning and explanatory comments.

• Can draw on research he/she has read to inform oral and written output, integrating and re-framing key findings for presentations or other academic tasks, while adapting language and detail to suit the audience and purpose.

   

Linguistic, vocabulary, grammar and orthographic control

• Can express him/herself clearly and without much sign of having to restrict what he/she wants to say.

• Has a sufficient range of language to be able to give clear descriptions, express viewpoints and develop arguments without much conspicuous searching for words, using some complex sentence forms to do so.

• Has a good range of vocabulary for matters connected to their field and most general academic and research topics.

• Capitalization, punctuation and spelling are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.

ב. תוכן הקורס:

Teaching techniques and digital technologies:

• Frontal instruction

• Pair/group work

• Class discussions

• Lamda assignments (e.g., forum discussions, recordings, online quizzes, videos)

• Interactive class activities using digital technologies

   

ג. חובות / דרישות / מטלות:

Course requirements:

• Attendance and active participation in class sessions

• Successful completion of class assignments, quizzes and homework

• Final exam

   

ד. מרכיבי הציון הסופי:

Components of the course grade:

The course grade is composed of a class grade (60%) and a final exam grade (40%).

The class grade includes:

The final exam is a two-hour session that includes two parts:

• Global reading section – a text of 3000 words accompanied by global reading questions.

   

• Research-focused section – an abstract from an empirical research article, followed by research-based comprehension questions.

Use of dictionaries is allowed during the exam.

Exam duration: 2 hours

ו. ביבליוגרפיה:

Bibliography:

• Authentic academic articles posted on the Lamda platform

• Articles chosen by individual students based on their individual disciplines or requirements