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| LANG0075-1 | English | ||||||||
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| Duration : | 15h Pr, 24h SEM | ||||||||
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| Holder(s) : | ISLV | ||||||||
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| Course contents : | The in-class course is taught to 40 to 50-student groups for 2 weekly hours. Students are asked to prepare the Units vocabulary and texts each week (a unit per week on average). Such preparation work varies in time depending on students previous knowledge. Practice is completed with in-class study/revision of the main difficulties of written English (action modality, time relationships, determination and quantification, etc.) and systematic vocabulary development (useful verbal collocations, prefixes and suffixes, etc.). | ||||||||
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| Course objective : | The course mainly aims at developing the global and selective reading comprehension of scientific documents (as well as listening comprehension to a lesser extent). It starts from simple reviews for the general public and gradually progresses to genuine articles from renowned medical journals (e.g. British Medical Journal). Acquired skills should allow students to access specific scientific literature easily and efficiently. | ||||||||
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| Prerequisites : | Considering its objectives, the course cannot be seen as an introduction to the basics of the English language. As a result, students should already have a basic grounding in English grammar and vocabulary (e.g. through secondary education/evening classes). In other words, all medical students should know that they need to have become familiar with English during prior general education. | ||||||||
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| Organization : | The in-class course is taught to 40 to 50-student groups for 2 hours each week. Schedules and rooms will be published later. | ||||||||
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| Written notes : | The MedEng 1 course book (Medical English 1) will be available from January in the Intercopy copy shop (Sart Tilman). | ||||||||
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| Assessment : | Written exam. Based on an unseen scientific text (medicine), students will be asked to answer multiple-choice and T/F questions. The English grade is included into the global Learning Module grade. | ||||||||
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| Contacts : | Mr. F. BONFOND, Département des Langues étrangères ISLV, place du 20-Août 7, 4000 Liège Bât. A1 Phone: 04/366 55 17/18, Fax: 04/366 57 16, Email: F.Bonfond@ulg.ac.be Ms C. BOUVY, Département des Langues étrangères ISLV, Address and phone number: see above, Email: cbouvy@ulg.ac.be | ||||||||
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| Remarks : | Considering the significant differences between 1st-year students, the limited teaching time and the number of students in each group, supervised self-learning and remedial work should be given due attention. Students are encouraged to prepare vocabulary and texts each week. Grammar reference works will be presented. | ||||||||
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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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