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 further 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 and 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.

• Can understand spoken announcements, instructions and messages.

Reading

• Can read articles and reports concerning contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular stances or viewpoints.

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

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

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

• Can read and comprehend advanced authentic academic English texts

• Can skim a long text to understand its main idea, purpose, and conclusion.

• Can understand the structure of various types of academic texts

• Can navigate authentic empirical research articles to extract relevant information.

• Can extrapolate the meaning of a section of a text by taking into account the text as a whole.

• Can make basic inferences or predictions about text content from headings, titles or headlines.

   

Interaction

Spoken

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

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

• Can give a clear, systematically developed presentation, with highlighting of significant points, and relevant supporting detail.

• Can utilize oral and aural skills to effectively participate in class sessions and activities.

• Can interact with a degree of fluency with native speakers.

   

Written

• Can write a text that develops an argument systematically with appropriate highlighting of significant points and relevant supporting detail.

• Can synthesize information and arguments from a number of sources.

• Can write short answers in English to demonstrate text comprehension.

• Can write structured paragraphs in English summarizing or responding to texts.

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

Production

Spoken

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

• 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.

   

Written

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

• Can participate actively in an online discussion, stating and responding to opinions on topics of interest at some length, provided contributors avoid unusual or complex language and allow time for responses.

• Produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint.

   

Mediation

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

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

• Can give a clear presentation of his/her reactions to a work, developing his/her ideas and supporting them with examples and arguments.

• 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.

   

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.

• Have 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.

• Can produce the appropriate collocations of many words in most contexts systematically.

• Show a relatively high degree of grammatical control. Does not make mistakes which lead to misunderstanding.

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

• Can use a variety of linking words efficiently to clearly mark the relationships between ideas.

• Can produce text that is generally well-organized and coherent, using a range of linking words and cohesive devices.

   

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.

Students are allowed to use a dictionary 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.