Course Title: IFLS 162 (01) 기업영어실습 (Business English LAB)

Tuesday (6), L-P 217

Instructor: Haesoon Park (박혜순) (e-mail: hpark49@korea.ac.kr)

Course Description:
The major emphasis of this course is on the development of basic/practical skills and
knowledge, which students need in order to meet the demands in trans-cultural contexts. The
instructor tries to manage the course by combining formal English learning with critical
thinking and sociolinguistics. In these regards, this course aims at helping students plan their
academic and career future in a practical and realistic manner by working on either an
authentic or a hypothetical resume and a cover letter. Moreover, students will acquire skills in
organizing their thoughts for proposal writing through activating critical thinking.
Throughout this course, students will have an ample opportunity to be exposed to various
samples and practice of the concerned areas.

Course Objectives:
• Facilitate sociolinguistic competence for intercultural interaction and communication
• Produce either an authentic or a hypothetical resume and cover letter (overcoming
conventional and fixed ideas on resume and cover letter)
• Enhance analytic and evaluative skills for creative and critical thinking and problem-
solving ability
• Acquire skills to use plain and clear English for formal documents
• Familiarize process-oriented group discussions
• Gain knowledge on various research types, which is one of the basic requirements for
proposal writing

Course Materials
• Hand-outs and ppts resources will not only be presented in the classroom but also be
uploaded in the Blackboard
• Authentic materials, various examples, and guidelines for activities will be provided
in the classroom through either hand-outs or presentation and they will further be
uploaded.
 • Feedback on each student’s work will be provided through either e-mail or face-to-
face interaction
• Hand-outs and presentation ppts will not only be presented in the classroom but also
be uploaded in the Blackboard

Course Requirements: Grading will be based upon the following criteria;

(1) Mid-term evaluation (35 %): Based on resume and cover letter each student produces
(individual evaluation)
(2) Final evaluation (30 %): Group proposal - A power-point-based presentation or a written
proposal based on group discussions
(group evaluation)
*Students can choose either a 10-minute-power-point-based presentation,
or a 4~5 paged written proposal
*Content: How well the proposal reflects the guidelines and required criteria provided.
(3) Course activities (25 %): Individual and group participation and contributions
(peer evaluation)
(3) Attendance (10 %): If you should miss a lecture, you are recommended to catch up what
you have missed by asking either other classmates or instructor.
*Your attendance may affect your group activity assessment.

Weekly Schedules (This is a tentative weekly course syllabus)

Week 1: Course Introduction
-What does the recent globalization impose upon us?
-Significances of resume and cover letter.
+reviewing conventional views on resume and cover letter
+searching for major functions of resume and cover letter in the globalizing world
-What are the significances of critical thinking skills in producing a good resume and
cover letter?
-Instructor’s powerpoint-based presentation
-Q and A time on the course
Week 2: Critical approach to macro and micro contexts around the world
-interaction between the world and I, as an agent
-hand-out and instructor presentation
 Week 3: Thought provoking session
-What is a resume? What is a resume for?
-How to produce a good resume?
Week 4: Characteristics of English for business related documents
-English for formal documents (Plain English for business)
Week 5: What is a cover letter?
-What is a cover letter for? How to produce a good cover letter?
Week 6: Execution of a customized resume and a cover letter -1
-writing a customized resume and cover letter
Week 7: Execution of a customized resume and a cover letter -2
-writing a customized resume and cover letter
Week 8: Midterm Evaluation
-evaluation references: a customized resume and cover letter
Week 9: Language as a social semiotics
-Evaluative aspects of language
+naming
+commercial signs
Week 10: Understanding research 1
-organizational skills for research
-types of research
-standards for raising one’s critical thinking
-9 principles for the analysis and evaluation
*ppts and hand-outs
Week 11: Understanding research 2
-introduction of worth considering aspects on research process
(How to identify a research topic, defining the research problem, and etc.)
Week 12: Praxis for conducting a research.
-instructor and peer & group interactions
Week 13: Proposal writing based on findings
-developing language and meaning-negotiation skills
-peer interactions
Week 14: An Interim report session for a group proposal
-group interactions & group and instructor interactions
 -check upon each group’s proposal processes and provide feedback
Week 15: Praxis for proposal writing
-developing analytic and evaluative skills for problem-solving
-peer, group & instructor interactions
Week 16: Submission or Presentation of a group proposal
-peer, group and instructor feedback
-enhancing business English language competence

Note: Syllabus is subject to change according to the students' achievements