Acquiring and improving the academic communication competencies in the Serbian language;

Ability to recognize functional-style register in the Serbian language and perception of their context conditioning, and ability of involvement in scientific function-style discourse.

The concept and structure of verbal communication. Stratification of natural human language. Functional-style stratification of the Serbian language. Conversational discourse (communication by e-mail). Administrative discourse (creating the correspondence genres: CVs, applications, appeals, requests…). Journalistic discourse. Fictional discourse. General characteristics of the scientific discourse. Styles of scientific discourse and their organization: academic style, textbook style, popular scientific style. Development of the scientific paper: types and structures of scientific work; documentation feedback of the scientific work (citations, footnotes, bibliography); language and style of the scientific work; technical processing of the scientific work. Typical substandard phenomenon in the academic communication and their correction: spelling mistakes; word choice; sentence structure.

At the beginning of the course all students take an entrance examination which determines the culture level of the written and spoken communication of each student. Knowledge testing is done continually during the course. Final examination is written and oral and has an objective to evaluate the improvement of each student compared to the level presented at the entrance examination. The complexity of functions which successful communication should fulfill is demonstrated through interactive exercises in small groups (expression of personal attitude, research results, exchanging views, evaluation of other people’s arguments in the written or spoken form, negotiation, etc.). Practice develops the understanding of context in which communication takes place. Monological method, dialogic method, work on the text method, corrective method;