About This Course

The course goal is aimed to raise the students' awareness of the current trends in areas of student specialization and their social implications, to build up their academic and professional English language competence, develop life-long learning, creativity, leadership, critical thinking, decision-making, problem solving and team work abilities.

The objectives of the course are to:
- raise the students’ grammar accuracy in using tenses
- expand the range of the students` professional vocabulary
- improve the students’ comprehension of authentic oral speech in professional contexts;
- improve the students’ ability to skim and scan authentic texts of professional interest, identify text topics, main ideas and arguments, distinguish fact from opinion;
- develop the students’ skills of oral speech in professional settings;
- teach students to write a summary of professional texts.