Course name: Selected Readings from Foreign Economic Journals
Prerequisites: English intensive reading, English extensive reading, courses in economics and trade
Attendants: business English undergraduates, undergraduates major in translation
Textbook: Selected Readings from Foreign Economic Journals by MAO Kemin
Nature, role and task of the course
Selected Readings from Foreign Economic Journals is a long-established course for English majors in SIFT, which aims at improving students’ ability in reading business English articles. It was intended for the third-year business English undergraduates, but now is available for students majoring in translation. Students attend the course once a week (2 academic periods each). After two semesters, students are expected to be able to read articles in foreign economic journals without much difficulty, grasp the main ideas and collect essential information.
Syllabus and objectives:
The textbook selects articles on economic and trade issues from English-language journals as well as chapters from works on economics and trade published in English-speaking countries. The course intends to help students to get well acquainted with the style, syntax of articles from foreign journals and enlarge their vocabularies through reading, explanation, and discussion. Moreover, they are also expected to know better about the background information on international economics and trade. The end-purpose of the course is to help students to improve their ability in reading foreign journals, grasp the main idea, and detailed information in relevant fields.
Teaching method:
In-class lectures plus out-class assignments
Schedule:
1st semester
Week content
1 Introduction
2 Unit 1
3 Unit 1
4 Unit 1
5 National Day
6 Unit 2
7 Unit 2
8 Unit 2
9 Unit 3
10 Unit 3
11 Unit3
12 Quiz
13 Unit4
14 Unit 4
15 Unit 4
16 Supplements
17 Supplements
18 Review
19 Final test
2nd semester
Week content
1 Introduction
2 Unit 5
3 Unit 5
4 Unit 5
5 Unit 6
6 Unit 6
7 Unit 6
8 Unit 7
9 Unit 7
10 Unit 7
11 Quiz
12 Unit 8
13 Unit8
14 Unit 8
15 Supplements
16 Supplements
17 Supplements
18 Review
19 Final test |
