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| LANG0053-1 | English | |||||
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| Duration : | 45h Th | |||||
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| Holder(s) : | Christine Filot | |||||
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| Course contents : | The course focuses on the development of reading and data-gathering skills using texts or sets of texts in the field of Veterinary Medicine. It includes the following:
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| Course objective : | The course mainly aims at (1) developing the global and selective reading comprehension of scientific documents, and (2) the development of an extensive specialized vocabulary - both active and passive - of Veterinary and Animal Science. Therefore, it starts from simple reviews for the general public and gradually progresses to genuine articles from reputed veterinary journals. The skills acquired in the course should allow students to access veterinary literarure easily and efficiently. . | |||||
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| Prerequisites : | Considering its objectives, the course cannot be an introduction to the basics of the English language. As a result, students should already have a good basic grounding in English grammar and vocabulary. Hopefully, all future veterinary students should know that they need to have become familiar with English during prior general education. | |||||
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| Workshops : | Considering the significant differences between students, the limited teaching time and the number of students, supervised self-learning and remedial work should be given due attention. The course includes explicit exam guidance and training and numerous exam-format tests which will give students repetitive exam practice enabling them to train and improve their skills. Students are encouraged to prepare texts and do exercises seriously every week if they want to pass the terminology and reading comprehension exam.. | |||||
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| Organization : | The in-class course is taught for 2 hours twice each week (on Wednesday & Friday) in the first half of the year. | |||||
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| Written notes : | The Veterinary English course book is available in the Intercopy copy shop (Sart Tilman). If necessary, students can also purchase the Grammaire Anglaise de Base (with exercises and key) ISLV. It is written in French and is also available in the Intercopy copy shop. | |||||
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| Assessment : | Written exam in January featuring multiple-choice questions on a sight text dealing with one of the aspects of veterinary medicine as well as vocabulary questions. The English grade is combined with that of the course Introduction to Documentary Research. | |||||
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| Contacts : | Dr Christine BOUVY - cbouvy@ulg.ac.be (ISLV) | |||||
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| Remarks : | Students can also train and test themselves on line. To do so, simply log on to http://www.ulg.ac.be/islvle. Then click on travaux pratiques and anglais and type in student (identifiant) and olec (password). | |||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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