Institution:
Vilnius University. Faculty of Philology

Vilnius

Address:
Vilniaus universitetas. Filologijos fakultetas
Universiteto g. 5
Vilnius 01513-LT
Tel.: +370-5 2687207
Fax: +370 5 268 7069

Contact persons:
FL 1301 Teachers: 
Assoc. Prof. Jonė Grigaliūnienė
Department of English Philology - University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel./Fax: office +370 5 268 7228
Birutė Ryvitytė, Doctoral student, lecturer 
Universiteto 5, 2734 Vilnius Tel./fax (+370 5) 268 7228
Alina Dailidenaite
Faculty of Philology
University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel.: 2687245

FL 1302 Teachers: 
Assoc. Prof. Laima Erika Katkuvienė
Department of English Philology
University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel./Fax: office +370 5 268 7228
Assoc. Prof. Jonė Grigaliūnienė
Department of English Philology - University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel./Fax: office +370 5 268 7228
Birutė Ryvitytė, Doctoral student, lecturer 
Universiteto 5, 2734 Vilnius Tel./fax (+370 5) 268 7228
Prof. Aurelija Usonienė
Department of English Philology - University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel./Fax: office +370 5 268 7228
Alina Dailidenaite
Faculty of Philology
University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel.: 2687245

FL 1402 Teachers: 
Aldona Rėksnienė lecturer
Universiteto 5, 2734 Vilnius Tel./fax (+370 5) 268 7228
Assoc. Prof. and Chair Inesa Šeškauskienė
Department of English Philology
University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel./Fax: office +370 5 2687 228
Assoc. Prof. Jonė Grigaliūnienė
Department of English Philology - University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel./Fax: office +370 5 268 7228
Milda Špėlytė-Letulienė, doctoral student, lecturer
Department of English Philology
University of Vilnius
Universiteto 5
LT-2734 Vilnius
Tel./Fax: office +370 5 268 7228

Language courses at the Faculty of Philology -  Vilnius University

Some information literacy contents, widespread in the language courses

FL 1301 Contemporary English

Acad. cycle: Bachelor
Local credits: 6
ECTS credits: 9
Duration: 1 semester
Semester: Autumn
Year of study: 3^rd
Weekly lectures/seminars: 0 / 4
Prerequisites: Advanced English
Languages: English
Examination: Written and oral
Assessment: 10-point scale

Objectives and learning outcomes:
• To introduce students to the research article genre, principles and steps in writing a research article and a few current research approaches in linguistics; to develop an understanding of the research process and acquire basic knowledge and skills necessary to carry out linguistic research and produce their own term papers.
• To develop the students’ conversation skills
• To expand and enrich the students’ specialized vocabulary
• To nurture a philological understanding of spoken and written language through the interpretation of contextual, intertextual, and pragmatic meaning of various authentic (political) texts, to enhance the ability to evaluate texts, express both orally and in writing the deliberations of literary, linguistic and political problems in English;
• To acquaint the students with the main tenets of Corpus Linguistics, to introduce students to new innovative methods and approaches to language learning by promoting corpus-driven language study, where a student is placed in a position of a ‘researcher’ provided with a rich resource of authentic data;
• To revise the phenomena of English grammar that are most challenging in doing translations from Lithuanian into English.
Course unit content:
• The concept of discourse community. Research article, main parts and their purpose. IMRD model: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion. Validity and reliability of data. Methods of data analysis. Presentation and discussion of findings. English for Academic Purposes.
• Key terms in Corpus Linguistics. 
• Understanding political discourse.
• The expansion and enrichment of the specialized (political) vocabulary.
• The article, tenses, -ing forms, subject/predicate agreement, modality, emphasis, inversion.

FL 1302 Contemporary English

Acad. cycle: Bachelor
Local credits: 6
ECTS credits: 9
Duration: 1 semester
Semester: Spring
Year of study: 3^rd
Weekly lectures/seminars: 0 / 4
Prerequisites: Advanced English
Languages: English
Examination: Written and oral
Assessment: 10-point scale

Objectives and learning outcomes:
• to introduce students to basic concepts in semantics and to enhance their critical reading and thinking.
• to acquainted the students with basic concepts and main issues in pragmatics; to develop an awareness of the role of speaker/hearer in the construction of meaning as well as some understanding of social and psychological factors involved in the generation and interpretation of utterances.
• to introduce students to sophisticated academic genres; to focus on certain linguistic aspects of academic papers; to assist students in developing analytical and critical skills and acquiring the capacity to synthesize material from different sources. They are also expected to become proficient in composing sophisticated academic genres.
• to revise English grammar placing the main emphasis on the sentence structure.

Course unit content:
• Its focus is on what/how meaning is conveyed in language. This theoretical knowledge would be reinforced by exercises, both written and verbal.
• Sophisticated academic genres such as different kinds of summaries, abstracts, critiques, reaction papers and reviews and focuses on certain linguistic aspects of academic papers(hedging, metadiscourse, informal elements in academic writing).
• Text as a linguistic unit (TALO) approach. Text as a vehicle for information (TAVI) approach. Differences between a literary text and non-literary (economics) writing. The rhetorical nature of the language in economics writings. Rhetorical devices used in economics writing. The prediction of future events and economic trends. The issue of hedging and the tone of quiet and disinterested argument and objective report.
• The sentence and its structure.

FL 1402 Contemporary English

Acad. cycle: Bachelor
Local credits: 7
ECTS credits: 10,5
Duration: 1 semester
Semester: Spring
Year of study: 4^st
Weekly lectures/seminars: 1 / 5
Prerequisites: General English, Introduction into Linguistics
Languages: English
Examination: Written and oral
Assessment: 10-point scale

Objectives and learning outcomes provide knowledge on the intonation peculiarities of functional styles.
• Further develop pronunciation and intonation skills in a variety of linguistic situations.
• Introduce modern approaches to language and main theories of language philosophy.
• Develop basic translation skills, build up and expand the vocabulary with the focus on the language of EU documents.
• Develop skills of research and skills of writing about research: collect, analyse and summarise information, give evaluation to different approaches, express one’s view, develop plagiarism-sensitive attitude etc.

Course unit content.  
The course consists of the following components: phonostylistics, language philosophy, translation (the language of the EU law), academic writing.
Academic writing: BA paper writing in stages. The structure and peculiarities of a BA paper. Literature review and introduction, plagiarism and how to avoid it, referencing, selection/choice and description of methods, data collection and description, interpretation of results, discussion: argument structure, argumentation, oral presentation of the BA paper.

Keywords: credit earning English courses for Humanities students - language skills - academic skills - critical skills - analytical skills - academic writing - academic writing skills - research skills - use of information - plagiarism - method skills  - argumentation skills