NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY - FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

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COURSE SYLLABUS
LISTENING FOR EEP- TERM III
I. INTRODUCTION
The listening course is intended for the second-year EEP students (Intake 62) at NEU who are supposed to
be at the intermediate level of English. This course continuously focuses on building up and developing
listening skills and strategies, especially note-taking strategies. The course takes 10 weeks with 4 class
periods of totally 4 hours each week.

II. GOALS
The course aims at:
- Providing the students with listening material for the students with topics related to business and
economics in academic contexts;
- Introducing the students to higher- level listening skills relating to note-taking, including: realizing
language for topics and big picture, language for transitions, language for giving examples, language
for causes and effects, language for comparison and contrast, using informal outline, using symbols and
abbreviations, and noting key words to take notes effectively;
- Continuously strengthening students’ listening skills and strategies;
- Providing a range of business-and-economics-themed and academic vocabularies;
- Developing discussion skills on a given topic related to business and economics;

III. OUTCOMES
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Listen to lectures which are 6-10 minutes long on a variety of business and economic related topics such
as business communication, financial futures, business meetings, micro-credit, negotiation skills,
opportunity cost, team building, money evolution, global marketing;
- Take notes from spoken text;
- Transfer and transforming information in speech to diagrammatic display [e.g. through completing a
diagram, table or chart;
- Distinguish the main ideas from supporting detail;
- Understand conceptual meaning in spoken text and utterances, e.g. comparison, degree, cause & effect,
result, and audience & purpose;
- Understand relationships between parts of text by recognizing discourse markers;
- Respond to various types of questions, including completion tasks, matching, multiple choice, short
answer question, classification;
- Put into use 150-200 business and economics related words and phrases;
- Discuss at length a given topic related to business and economics for 5-7 minutes.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
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IV. COURSE BOOK AND MATERIALS
- English for Business and Economics – Listening and Note-taking Skills by Department of English
for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Foreign Languages, National Economics University;
- Sarosy, P. & Sherak, K., 2007, Lecture Ready 1, 2, 3 – Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking,
and Discussion, Oxford University Press;
- Solorzano, H., Frazier, L. & Rost, M., 2009, Contemporary Topics 1, Pearson Education Inc.
- Kisslinger, E. & Rost. M., 2009. Contemporary Topics 2, Pearson Education Inc.
- Supplementary materials with practice for academic purposes.

V. CONTENT
WEEK MAIN CONTENT FURTHER PRACTICE MATERIALS
1 The Art of Marketing in a Global Market PRACTICE 1 Unit 1
2 High-context and Low-context PRACTICE 2 Unit 2
Communication
3 Five Tips for Your Financial Future PRACTICE 3 Unit 3
4 Managing International Business Meetings PRACTICE 4 Unit 4

5 Microcredit PRACTICE 5 Unit 5

6 Negotiating for Success PRACTICE 6 Unit 6

7 Opportunity Cost PRACTICE 7 Unit 7

8 Team Building PRACTICE 8 Unit 8
Midterm sample test
9 MIDTERM TEST
REVISION & FEEDBACK ON MIDTERM TEST
10 CONSOLIDATION

Note:
Unit 9 and Practice 9 are optional!
This schedule is tentative and subject to change, and any changes will be notified by the teacher in
charge. . 
VI. ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
Students’ performance during the course is assessed on the following criteria:
Criteria %
1. Attendance, Participation and Homework fulfillment 10

2. Mid-term listening test 20

3. Final listening test 70
Total 100

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Midterm test & Final test
The test consists of 3-4 parts covering a number of skills which have been introduced during the course in
forms of
- Note taking skills (listen for main idea, big pictures, examples, causes and effects…)
- Multiple choice questions
- Gap-filling questions
- Short-answer questions
- Matching

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