LANG3015-1

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

	Master in law, professional focus in management	2 crédits

Lecturer

Ellen Harry, ISLV

Coordinator

Ellen Harry

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

30 hrs: The course is based on an integrated course manual at upper intermediate level (B2+) aimed at business people and students of business English, as well as on a recent publication exploring the causes behind the financial crisis of 2008:
-Cotton, Falvey and Kent. Market Leader. Intermediate Business Course Book. 3rd edition. Pearson Education, 2010.
- Lewis, Michael. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. W. W. Norton, 2010.
The course manual is organized around thematic units relating to management and economic life. It offers a range of activities (articles from The Financial Times, expert interviews, speaking and writing tasks, case studies, grammar and vocabulary exercises) dealt with and exploited in class. This book will allow Law students to acquire the business English terminology and business language skills necessary to follow Master's courses in Business.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

As this is a B2 level course, at the end of the year, the intended key learning outcomes are that the students will be able to...

understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in business;
interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party;
produce clear, detailed text, comprising a range of business-related documents;
explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options;
understand extended speech and lectures on familiar subjects, taken from English-speaking media;
show a relatively high degree of grammatical control, and correct most of their mistakes.

This is in accordance with the programme objectives for the Master's degree in Business and Law.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The course is open to Law/HEC-Ulg students having successfully completed the bachelor's course programme requirements regarding English, and to external students with an equivalent (intermediate) level of everyday and business English.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

This class uses a dynamic, interactive, and effective approach to learning business English and includes:

* active and regular participation in class discussions and debates on business themes, putting into practice the target business terminology and appropriate oral skills * the assessment of grammar through self-assessment tests, through former exam excerpts (1st week of class, last week of April) and online self-study exercises through GABi; * periodic written assignments, testing writing and organizational skills; * interactive role plays in case studies, putting into practice oral skills and business knowledge; * improving listening skills with a focus on notetaking, presentations, and intercultural relations; * short presentations in pairs improving public speaking skills, based on class themes; * the transmission of relevant grammar and vocabulary through Market Leader, which uses material from authentic business sources, and The Big Short.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

A 30-hour, face-to-face course taught 2.5 hours per week in the spring semester.

Assessment methods and criteria

2 self-assessment tests (including vocabulary and grammar) and 1 writing test will be organised during the spring semester.
The presentations will take place in the weeks: 14th March, 25th April. Half the marks given for the oral presentation are based on individual performance and the other half are for group work. Students who do not perform their oral presentation will NOT be allowed to sit the May exam, and will have to sit the second session.
All tests and essays will be taken into account as classwork. In the second session, classwork and presentation marks will only be taken into account if they are to the student's advantage.
The exam in May, testing the language and skills taught throughout the year, will comprise an oral, reading and listening exam.
The final marks (20 marks) will be awarded as follows:
Oral exam - 8 marks
Listening comprehension exam - 3 marks
Reading comprehension exam - 3 marks
Presentation - 4 marks
Classwork and self-study - 2 marks

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Ellen Harry Chargée d'enseignement Bâtiment B33, Bureau des enseignants de l'ISLV, niveau -1 Sart-Tilman tél: 04/ 366 46 52 eharry@ulg.ac.be

English language for management