Duration
80h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in business engineering | 7 crédits |
Lecturer
Emma Desforges, Ellen Harry, ISLV, Kevin Noiroux
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course is based on an integrated course book at intermediate level aimed at students of business English: 2nd level English for Business: Course Book for Business Engineers.
This course book is organized around thematic units relating to management and economic life. It offers a range of activities (articles from newspapers, expert interviews, speaking and writing tasks, case studies, grammar and vocabulary exercises) dealt with and exploited in class.
It also includes sections on presentation skills and sample exam questions.
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 course will allow students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes distinctive to a specialist's action in their field. It will help students to demonstrate scientific precision and a critical mind and will train students to work efficiently in an international and multidisciplinary team, among others in a leading position. Also, this course will encourage students to analyze their managerial practice with a critical and ethical mind. This course will help students to communicate efficiently, internally and externally, about a company, organization or project; to improve their proficiency in one foreign language (among the 3 languages required by the program); to raise their awareness of the multicultural and international features of their environment. Finally, this course will encourage students to be curious and to show a scientific precision of academic level and will improve students' creativity, autonomy and entrepreneurial spirit.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course is open to HEC students having successfully completed the 1st level course programme requirements, 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:
* the transmission of grammar and vocabulary through self-assessment tests, using parts of a sample previous exam (1st week of class, in February and in April);
* periodic written assignments, testing writing and organizational skills;
* interactive role plays in case studies, putting into practice oral skills and business knowledge;
* business letter writing, using acceptable vocabulary, formality, and layout;
* improving listening skills with a focus on job interviews, human resources, international markets, ethics, leadership and competition;
* presentations in pairs improving public speaking skills, based on business;
* the transmission of relevant grammar and vocabulary through the course book, which uses material from authentic business sources.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
An 80-hour, face-to-face course taught 3 hours per week throughout the year. This may have to be adapted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students will be informed of the duration and frequency of the classes in due time.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Classes will continue to be given online in part via Collaborate or Lifesize or Zoom and in part through exercises (Padlet, Wooclap, narrated or videoconference PowerPoint slideshows) to be completed on Lola until the sanitary conditions improve sufficiently for us to return to in-class teaching.
The essay scheduled for March will be performed on Lola (as was the November essay) and the oral presentations will be given on Lifesize or Zoom as well. The material for the January oral exam remains unchanged (reading file available on Lola) but the exam itself will take place on Lifesize or Collaborate or Zoom.
If the sanitary conditions allow the June exam to be in person this is our first choice. Should an online exam be necessary then this take place on Lol@. If the exam is online there will still be a listening comprehension, an essay, a reading comprehension and a grammar and vocab section, and the marks will be allocated as mentioned above.
The students will, of course, be notified of any changes to the organisation and schedule of the class and the exams.
Recommended or required readings
Course Book: 2nd level English for Business: Course Book for Business Engineers is available online via Lol@ the first week of class.
La grammaire anglaise de base:Published by Presse Universitaire. Point de vu: Sart Tilman, Presse Universitaire: L'opera.
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.
3 self-assessment tests (including vocabulary, grammar, and writing) and 2 writing tests will be organised during the year in the months of September, November, February, March and April.
The presentations will take place in the months of November, December, February, March, 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 make a presentation cannot sit the exams in the first session. This rule also applies for those who do not take the January oral exam. In the case of a missed presentation or a missed written assignment the student will get a 0 in both sessions unless they are covered by a medical certificate.
All tests and essays will be taken into account as classwork, including in the second session.
The exam in January will comprise an oral exam. The final exam in May, testing the language and skills taught throughout the year, will include a written exam and a listening comprehension. The written exam in May/June will comprise exercises on the grammar and vocabulary seen throughout the year, as well as a reading comprehension and a writing assignment.
The students who did not pass the oral exam in January (i.e have less than 50% ) AND who have a second session in English will have have to retake it in the August session along with any other part of the final exam which received less than 10/20 in June.
The final marks (20 marks) will be awarded as follows:
Written exam - 8 marks (in May)
Oral exam - 5 marks (in January)
Listening comprehension exam - 2 marks (in January)
Presentation - 3 marks
Classwork - 2 marks
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Ellen Harry
Chargée d'enseignement principal
Bâtiment B33, Bureau des enseignants de l'ISLV, niveau -1
Sart-Tilman
tél: 04/ 366 46 52
eharry@uliege.be
Emma Desforges
Chargée d'enseignement principal
Bâtiment B33, Bureau des enseignants de l'ISLV, niveau -1
Sart-Tilman
tél: 04/ 366 46 52
E.Desforges@uliege.be
Kevin Noiroux
Chargée d'enseignement principal
Bâtiment B33, Bureau des enseignants de l'ISLV, niveau -1
Sart-Tilman
tél: 04/ 366 46 52
k.noiroux@uliege.be