Duration
80h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in economics and business management | 7 crédits |
Lecturer
Chloé L'Honneux, Xuan Giang Nguyen, Jonathan Solheid, Pauline Warroquiers
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Course-related content :
- Various subjects in the form of "files", including vocabulary and different types of exercises in order to make the students familiar with the themes covered.
- Business vocabulary (upper-intermediate level) as well as lists of general thematic vocabulary (available on Lol@).
- Grammar revisions.
- Listening comprehensions based on radio podcasts, video clips, conferences...
- Oral skills and "soft" skills: presenting a company or a news topic, holding a conversation and a debate, giving one's opinion, participating in a role-play, negociating, convincing,...
- Book extract
- Seminar given by a guest speaker
- Field trip (if proper funding available)
- Visit of a company
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course's purpose is to give students the proper resources 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
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
1) Obtaining the credits allocated to the course of English Level 1 (LANG1951).
2) Obtaining at least 30 credits from the 1st block (Bachelor programme in Economic and Management Sciences)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Various activities (among others):
- Diverse reading and exercise files based on business-related topics.
- Vocabulary exercises.
- Listening comprehensions.
- Reading comprehensions.
- Language revisions.
- Group presentations in class.
- Business simulations.
- Rephrasing.
- Preparation of a press file.
- Role-play.
- Discussions (in pairs or in groups).
- Debates.
- ...
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
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.
Recommended or required readings
Documents will be provided gradually on Lol@ (course code: LANG1953-1). However, we do not provide keys to in-class exercises, and students will have to complete the file-related lists of vocabulary on their own; it is therefore highly desirable to come to class in order to take some personal notes.
Here are the books needed to be able to follow the course:
Compulsory:
- Book extract for January's exam (Tim Jackson - Post Growth) ; the chosen extract will be available on Lola.
- In-class files (posted on Lola).
- Lists of general thematic vocabulary (available on Lola).
- MURPHY R., English Grammar in Use, 5th edition (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004).
- Dictionary ROBERT & COLLINS
- "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" or "The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English"
- "The Oxford Dictionary of Business English for Learners of English", Oxford University
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
Out-of-session test(s)
Additional information:
FIRST SESSION
June's final mark rests on the whole year's workload, that is divided as follows:
1. Written skills :
a. In-class tests at the end of each file, covering the vocabulary and language point of the file in question, as well as units from the general thematic vocabulary lists.
WARNING: the tests are dispensatory; any student who does not obtain the average (i.e. 10.00/20) for these tests at the end of the term will be obliged to take a test on the same subject again on the day of the written exam which closes the term (January/June). Any student who fails to obtain an average in all of the tests at the end of the year and finds him-/herself in a second session will have to retake a test on all of the year's vocabulary and language subjects in August.
b. January's exam including among others:
- various questions about the book extract
- unseen listening comprehension
- written exercise (opinion note/open questions/...)
- unseen listening comprehension
- written exercise (opinion note/open questions/...)
- December: case study (oral exam in groups)
- June: face-to-face oral exam (based on a press file)
- In-class presentation (Q2) about one of the topics covered in class
AUGUST'S SESSION
The calculation of the final mark rests on August's exam, that is divided as follows :
1. Written exam including among others :
- listening comprehension
- written exercise (opinion note/open questions/...)
- questions about the book
- if failed during the year (below 10,00/20), a test about the whole year's vocabulary and language
NB: 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, unless students wish to resit that part (in which case August's grade will automatically replace June's grade, whether it be higher or lower).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
IMPORTANT
We give repeating students NO EXEMPTIONS.
Contacts
- Chloé L'HONNEUX : clhonneux@uliege.be
- Xuan Giang NGUYEN: xg.nguyen@uliege.be
- Jonathan SOLHEID: jonathan.solheid@uliege.be
- Pauline WARROQUIERS: pwarroquiers@uliege.be
Office 215 (N1)