BAŞKENT UNIVERSITY

School of Foreign Languages

Academic English Unit
Course Syllabus
2021-2022 Academic Year Spring Term

Course ENG 300 / 330 + ENGE 300

Developing English Language Skills
Credit/Hours/ECTS → ENG 300 4/4/5
→ ENG 330 3/4/4
→ ENGE 300 4/4/5
Level Advanced
Course Hours 4
Classroom
Prerequisites and/or None
Co-requisites

Instructor
E-mail
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Phone
Office Hours

Course Description:
Building on the skills acquired from preparatory level to second year level courses, this
course aims to improve skills of reading, listening, and writing by familiarizing the students
with TOEFL IBT question types through thematic units. It is a course for students who have
upper intermediate to advanced level of knowledge of the language. The objective of the
course is to help students get ready for the TOEFL IBT, if they plan to take it for their
graduate studies.

Objectives:

Within the framework of the learning outcomes and competences designed for the course, the
objectives are as follows:

 to read and understand various reading passages

 to recognize and understand he different question types in the reading passages
 to answer these different question types related to various reading passages
 to recognize and understand the different question types in the listening passages
 to listen and comprehend conversations and lectures
 to take notes while listening to conversations and lectures
 to answer related questions to various conversations and lectures
 to brainstorm and prepare an outline on a topic (to write an essay)
 to state opinions on a variety of topics in writing
 to write an essay using proper development, organization and language use strategies

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  to complete an integrated writing task (synthesize information from a reading and
listening source to produce a written paragraph in English)
 to summarize the points in a listening passage and explain how they relate to specific
points in a reading passage in writing
 to increase vocabulary knowledge on different subjects

Course Materials:
Northstar Building Skills for the TOEFL IBT (ADVANCED) (2006)
Complied Supplementary Materials Booklet

Method of Instruction
The approach used can be characterised as communicative and integrated.

Course Policies:

 Attendance/Requirements: Students are expected to attend regularly and show up on

time. Students are required to attend at least 70% of classes (missing more than a
total of 16 hours of classes might result in a failure of the whole class). Each student
must bring the course-book to class in order to follow the course effectively. Using
cell phones during class is strictly forbidden.

 Assessment: There will be one midterm and one final examination. Cheating will
result in failing the course and may lead to disciplinary action. Please see University
Regulations. If you miss an exam, you will not be given a make-up exam unless you
submit an approved medical report or any other official document proving your
excuse.

 Grading

Midterm Final TEG

45 % 50% 5%

 Grading Scale:

Grade Points Counted Percentage

A 4.0 95-100
A- 3.7 90-94
B+ 3.3 85-89
B 3.0 80-84
B- 2.7 75-79
C+ 2.3 70-74
C 2.0 65-69
C- 1.7 60-64
D+ 1.3 55-59
D 1.0 50-54
F1 0 0-49
F2 0 Unattendance

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