LANG1953-1

Duration

80h Th

Number of credits

	Bachelor in economics and business management	7 crédits

Lecturer

Hélène Briamont, Xuan Giang Nguyen, Jonathan Solheid, Pauline Warroquiers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

- Various subjects presented as "files", including vocabulary and different types of exercises in order to make the students familiar with the themes broached.
- Business vocabulary (upper-intermediate level) as well as some vocabulary units retrieved from "Le BLED" (general thematic vocabulary).
- Punctual grammar revisions.
- Listening comprehensions based on radio podcasts, video clips, conferences...
- Oral skills: presenting a company or a news topic, holding a conversation and a debate, giving one's opinion, ...
- Writing exercises.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- To reach the B2 European level of language proficiency.
- In practice:
* oral abilities: the student will be able to express themselves fluently on business and/or economic topics as well as on more general topics thanks to the acquisition of common vocabulary (through the study of the 'Bled'; see "compulsory readings" hereunder)
* writing skills: notions of academic writing
* reading competences: the student will have to be able to understand an unseen text and summarize it, rephrase its information, comment it, and answer questions about its content
* listening competences: the student will have to be able to understand the information given in an unknown audio extract, recognize its main elements, and render the information as cleary as possible in their own words
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Implementation :

The course will train the student to work efficiently in an international and multidisciplinary team, among others in a leading position when confronted with a complex situation. The course will train the student to analyze his managerial practice with a critical and ethical mind when confronted with a complex situation.

Adaptability :

The course will encourage students to be curious and to show a scientific precision of academic level in their studies as well as in their professional life.

The course will encourage students to be creative, self sufficient and full of entrepreneurial spirit in their studies as well as in their professional life.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

- B1 level.
- Lower intermediate English MUST be acquired at this level. Everyday vocabulary and structures must be acquired too as well as some knowledge of business vocabulary.
- Obtaining the credits allocated to the course of English Level 1
- Obtaining at least 45 credits from the 1st block (Bachelor programme in Economic and Management Sciences)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

- Various reading and exercise files based on business-related topids.
- Learning of texts vocabulary as well as derived vocabulary.
- Listening comprehensions from the Market Leader and from the BBC World Service and other sources.
- Group presentations in class of a company and newspaper articles followed by a debate.
- Rephrasing.
- Writing exercises.
- Preparation of a press file.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Essentially in class. However, students will also be given different kinds of homework, such as:
* personal preparation and study of vocabulary
* exercises (texts, video clips, audio extracts, ...) to do or finish at home
* preparation for in-class presentations
* personal preparation of different documents (seen during the lessons or not) that are deemed as part of the stuff to study for the exams

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

January's exam session will consist only of an oral exam that will include the following elements:

- questions and rephrasing exercises about the topics seen in class during the first semester
- content and vocabulary questions about the press file
Le Bled will be assessed separately at the beginning of the second semester.
NB: given the current health crisis, the distribution between the year's various assessments is likely to be reexamined by the teachers.

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions ) AND oral exam

- Remote

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire ) AND oral exam AND written work

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person

Additional information:

FIRST SESSION
June's final mark rests on the whole year's workload, that is divided as follows:

1. Written skills :
a) test Bled #1 (units 29 to 40)
b) test Bled #2 (units 41 to 52 + 83 & 86)
c) June's exam :
* listening comprehension
* opinion note/open questions
* vocabulary exercises

2. Oral part :
Face-to-face oral exam in January; mandatory "resit" in June if January's result is below 9,00/20. _______________________________________

SECOND SESSION
The calculation of the final mark rests on August's exam, that is divided as follows : 1. Written exam including :
* listening comprehension
* opinion note/open questions
* vocabulary exercises

2. Oral exam : individual face-to-face oral exam
WARNING: If one of these two parts (written part/oral part) is passed in June (at least a full 10/20), the related mark will be maintained in the calculation of August's mark.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

IMPORTANT
Here are the rules that will be applied to this course:
1. We give repeating students NO EXEMPTIONS (= 'dispenses')
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2. 'absorbing failure' : if students get less than 10/20 (NOT rounded up!) for one of the items mentioned hereunder, they will be obliged to resit the failed part(s) in August. The concerned parts are:
a) oral skills
and/or
b) written skills
If the result obtained in August for one of these competences (or both) still doesn't reach 10/20 (not rounded-up), students will not obtain the credits of this course.

Contacts

- Hélène BRIAMONT: hbriamont@uliege.be
- Xuan Giang NGUYEN: xg.nguyen@uliege.be
- Jonathan SOLHEID: jonathan.solheid@uliege.be
- Pauline WARROQUIERS: pwarroquiers@uliege.be

Office 207 (N1)

English 2