SYLLABI (COURSE DESCRIPTION)

Academic year 2021 / 2022

English for Psychology 1
Name	English for Psychology 1
ECTS credits	2
Teachers	Tina Miholjančan, Senior Lecturer
Hours	Seminar 30
Prerequisites	None
Goal	Acquiring and developing techniques for reading professional literature, acquiring summary writing techniques, developing the skill of speaking on academic and professional topics and acquiring academic and professional vocabulary.
Teaching methods	Group work, pair work, lectures, individual work.
Assessment methods	Continuous assessment: class participation, homework, mid-term exam.
Learning outcomes	1. Use EAP and ESP vocabulary 2. Read professional literature in English with understanding 3. Use paraphrasing techniques and citation styles 4. Summarize and present the content of an authentic listening material 5. Interpret diagrams and graphs 6. Write an abstract of a scientific paper in English
Week by week schedule	1. Introduction to the course English for Psychology 2. Academic writing style: features 3. Building academic vocabulary. Academic word list. 4. Revision exercises. 5. Reading strategies and skills: making predictions, surveying an academic text, identifying important points, understanding text structure. making inferences, reading critically (distinguishing between facts and opinions, analyzing an argument, comparing viewpoints). 6. Coherence and cohesion. Transition words. 7. Reporting verbs. 8. Paraphrasing and summarizing. Citation styles. 9. Revision exercises. 10. Listening to academic lectures. Note-taking skills. 11. Interpreting graphs and diagrams. 12. Revision exercises 13. Introduction to writing an abstract. Types of abstracts. 14. Writing abstracts: content, style, keywords. 15. Mid-term exam
Required reading	1. Short, J. (2010): English for Psychology in Higher Education Studies. Reading: Garnet Publishing Ltd. 2. Chazal, E., McCarter, S. (2012): Oxford EAP. A course in English for Academic Purposes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 3. Jordan, R.R. (2010): Academic Writing Course: study skill in English. Harlow: Longman Pearson 4. Seal, B. (1998): Academic Encounters: Human Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Additional reading

English for Psychology 2
Name	English for Psychology 2
ECTS credits	2
Teachers	Tina Miholjančan, Senior Lecturer
Hours	Seminar 30
Prerequisites	To enrol course it is necessary to pass course English for Psychology 1
Goal	Developing speaking / presentation skills on professional topics, adopting essay writing techniques and learning professional vocabulary
Teaching methods	Group work, pair work, lectures, individual work.
Assessment methods	Continuous assessment: class participation, homework, end-term exam
Learning outcomes	1. Discuss professional topics in English 2. Hold a presentation on a professional topic 3. Analyze and write a paragraph 4. Make an outline and write a "comparison and contrast" essay on a professional topic
Week by week schedule	1. Oral presentation guidelines 2. Understanding essay titles. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 3. Generating ideas for writing tasks. Organizing ideas and writing an outline. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 4. Analyzing and writing topic sentences. Adding supporting evidence. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 5. Writing the body paragraphs. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 6. Analyzing an essay introduction. Writing a thesis statement. Writing an essay introduction. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 7. Analyzing an essay conclusion. Writing an essay conclusion. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 8. Types of essays. Part 1. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 9. Types of essays. Part 2. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 10. Comparison and contrast essay. Recognizing and categorizing similarities and differences. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 11. Identifying and using comparison and contrast language. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 12. First draft. Self-editing and correcting. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 13. Speaking skills: students' oral presentations. 14. Revision 15. End-term exam (essay)
Required reading	1. Seal B., Academic Encounters: Human Behaviour, Cambridge University Press (1998) 2. Atkinson and Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology (14th ed.), Wadworth (2003) - selected chapters 3. Jordan, R.R.: Academic Writing Course; Collins, London and Glasgow, 2004
Additional reading	1. Williams, E. J.: Presentations in English; Macmillan Publishers Limited, Oxford, 2008 2. Zemach D. E., Rumisek L. A.: Academic Writing from paragraph to essay; Oxford 2003