554.013 (17W) English I: Social English and Presentations Ic
Überblick
- Lehrende/r
- LV-Titel englisch English I: Social English and Presentations Ic
- LV-Art Kurs (prüfungsimmanente LV )
- Semesterstunde/n 2.0
- ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 2.0
- Anmeldungen 24 (20 max.)
- Organisationseinheit
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch
- mögliche Sprache/n der Leistungserbringung Englisch
- LV-Beginn 13.10.2017
- eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Zeit und Ort
LV-Beschreibung
Intendierte Lernergebnisse
In this foundation course students do approx. 30 hours of interactive training to build up confidence and fluency in using English for business purposes. Written tasks train the basics of reader-friendly business writing. We will focus on the topic area Carinthia/Carinthian businesses to bring English "close to home" as a global lingua franca for dealing with local and international issues.
Targeted learning outcomes include:
1. Grounding in giving effective presentations in English - able to hold a short, effective, well-structured business presentation.
2. Ability to make effective results-oriented phone calls for business.
3. Ability to write short, focussed, well-structured business emails to handle routine business situations and problem situations.
4. Training in using English for relationship and rapport building, social skills.
Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools
- Communicative interactive methodology (pair and group work)
- Presentations training - 3-4 short presentations with varying training focus, i.e. delivery, structure, rhetoric, audience contact, visual support
- Process writing training - feedback loop and editing stages
- Short teacher and other inputs combined with communicative student tasks
- Pair work phoning and conversation practice
- Peer and teacher feedback
- Individual diagnostics of grammar problems, training on selected topics with elearning support
- Monolingual vocabulary training in relevant fields of business and legal English with elearning training tasks
Inhalt/e
6 whole-morning sessions (Friday mornings). We will start off with social English, phoning, and email training. In the middle of the semester the focus will be on presentations training. The tests will be distributed over the semester to avoid an overconcentration of tests at the end.
Erwartete Vorkenntnisse
Matura level (high-school diploma level) English skills.
Literatur
Course workbook, e-learning inputs on Moodle
Prüfungsinformationen
Prüfungsmethode/n
Presentation Test (25% of grade); Telephoning Test (15%); Written test - email inbox assignment (15%); Online monolingual vocabulary test (10%); 2 homework assignments (business emails) 15%); Classwork and homework assignments (20%).
Prüfungsinhalt/e
i. 4-minute business presentation ii. 8-minute sales call to set up a sales meeting (call held with instructor,student's own choice of company which they choose to represent) iii. Inbox email test: 3 emails (chosen from 5 oder 6) onbusiness topics, e.g. payment difficulties, mix-ups, applications, internship program (1 hour test, written on the computer) iv. Online vocabulary test - 50 monolingual test items, e.g. definitions, prepositions, fixed phrases, word partnerships (see practice tests on Moodle) |
Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
i. Presentation skills: 20% of total points awarded for each of the following respectively - delivery; structure and rhetoric; English skills (grammar,vocabulary, pronunciation), "ownership" of language used; visualsupport; audience contact
ii.Telephoning test: points scheme to assess each stage of the call,communicative effectiveness; English skills (grammar, vocabulary,pronunciation, fluency), implementation of principles of effective phoning
iii. Emails test: Results-oriented structure/organisation of email -presentation and organisation of key information; appropriate courteous toneand reader-friendly style for business emails; standard of language (grammar,vocabulary, appropriacy), use of six standard elements of business emails(subject line, appropriate address, signalling of email topic and purpose, mainmessage, next steps, sign-off).
iv. Online vocabulary test - range and accuracy, spelling.
v. Class work and homework - points for these tasks awarded for participation, not assessed for accuracy
Beurteilungsschema
Note BenotungsschemaPosition im Curriculum
- Bachelorstudium Angewandte Betriebswirtschaft
(SKZ: 518, Version: 14W.3)
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Fach: Business Language in Context
(Pflichtfach)
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§9(1) English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations Ic (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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§9(1) English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
-
Fach: Business Language in Context
(Pflichtfach)
- Bachelorstudium Angewandte Betriebswirtschaft
(SKZ: 518, Version: 12W.1)
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Fach: Business Language in Context
(Pflichtfach)
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English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations Ic (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 2. Semester empfohlen
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English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Business Language in Context
(Pflichtfach)
- Bachelorstudium Informationsmanagement
(SKZ: 522, Version: 17W.1)
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Fach: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Wahlfach)
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8.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations Ic (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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8.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Wahlfach)
- Bachelorstudium Informationsmanagement
(SKZ: 522, Version: 12W.1)
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Fach: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Wahlfach)
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4.1.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations Ic (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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4.1.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Wahlfach)
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Wintersemester 2022/23
- 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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- Sommersemester 2021
- Wintersemester 2020/21
- Sommersemester 2020
- Wintersemester 2019/20
- Sommersemester 2019
- Wintersemester 2018/19
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Sommersemester 2018
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2017
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2016/17
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2016
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Wintersemester 2015/16
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2015
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Wintersemester 2014/15
- 554.013 KU English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2014
- 554.016 KU English I: Social English and Presentations f (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2013