554.014 (17S) English I: Social English and Presentations d

Sommersemester 2017

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First course session
10.03.2017 09:00 - 12:15 Z.1.08 On Campus
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Overview

Lecturer
Course title german English I: Social English and Presentations d
Type Course (continuous assessment course )
Hours per Week 2.0
ECTS credits 2.0
Registrations 25 (20 max.)
Organisational unit
Language of instruction English
possible language(s) of the assessment English
Course begins on 10.03.2017
eLearning Go to Moodle course

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Course Information

Intended learning outcomes

In this foundation course students complete approx. 30 hours of interactive training in English to build up confidence and fluency in using English for business purposes. Written tasks train the basics of reader-friendly communicative business writing.  We will focus on the thematic area Carinthia/Carinthian businesses, to bring English  "close to home" as a global lingua franca for dealing with local and international concerns.

Targeted learning outcomes include:

1. Grounding in effective persuasive presentation skills - able to hold a short, effective, well-structured business presentation.

2. Ability to make effective results-orientated 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.

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

  • Communicative interactive methodology (pair and group work)
  • Presentations training - 5 mini 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 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 e-learning training tasks.

Course content

Presenting to an audience; writing business emails; making telephone calls for business; social English:

  • Presentation skills- delivery, structure, rhetoric, visual support, audience contact, pronunciation
  • Communicative writing for business especially e-mails, e.g. inquiries, offers, making arrangements, applications, troubleshooting
  • Telephoning - information exchange, inquiries, sales calls, calls to deal with problems
  • Social English - small talk, general and personal topics, conversation
  • Handing numbers in English, stastical information, price information
  • Business and tourism sectors in Carinthia
  • (Carinthian) companies and products; presenting and discussing companies - facts and figures, performance, products, revenues & profits, strategies for success, problems
  • Carinthia as a visitor destination - selling Carinthia on the UK market
  • Sales & selling
  • Handling problems
  • Using the internet as a resource / Reading current articles from business press
  • Grammar review - selected topics, individual diagnostics
  • Vocabulary building for business and legal English

Literature

  • Course reader
  • Selected texts from business press and internet inputs
  • Students' own research
  • "Presenting in English" (LTP Mark Powell)

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Examination methodology

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%).

Examination topic(s)

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)

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

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 

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

  • Bachelor's degree programme Applied Business Administration (SKZ: 518, Version: 14W.3)
    • Subject: Business Language in Context (Compulsory subject)
      • §9(1) English I: Social English and Presentations ( 2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
        • 554.014 English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelor's degree programme Information Management (SKZ: 522, Version: 12W.1)
    • Subject: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (Compulsory elective)
      • 4.1.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation ( 0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 554.014 English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelor's degree programme Business and Law (SKZ: 519, Version: 12W.3)
    • Subject: Business English in Context (Compulsory elective)
      • English I: Social English and Presentations ( 2.0h KU / 2.0 ECTS)
        • 554.014 English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)

Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts

Wintersemester 2020/21
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2019/20
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2018/19
  • 554.012 KS English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2018
  • 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KS English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2017/18
  • 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations Ia (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KS English I: Social English and Presentations Ib (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations Id (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2017
  • 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KS English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2016/17
  • 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KS English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2016
  • 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KS English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2015/16
  • 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KS English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KS English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2015
  • 554.011 KU English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KU English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KU English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2014/15
  • 554.011 KU English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KU English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KU English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2014
  • 554.011 KU English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KU English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.013 KU English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KU English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2013/14
  • 554.011 KU English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KU English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.013 KU English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KU English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2013
  • 554.011 KU English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.012 KU English I: Social English and Presentations b (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.013 KU English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
  • 554.014 KU English I: Social English and Presentations d (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)