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| LANG0078-1 | English
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| Duration : | 15h Th, 15h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Pascale Drianne, Christine Filot, ISLV |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | The Course is an ESP course of CEFRL level B2-C1 for reading. 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 (Council of Europe Level A2 for reading and A1 for all other linguistic skills but writing). 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 specified in due course. |
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| Written notes : | The MedEng 1 course book, as well as the Premed course book, will be available at the INTERCOPY shop as of September 2008. |
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| Assessment : | Written exam comprising (a) multiple-choice questions on the medical vocabulary and (b) multiple-choice and True/False questions on a sight text (medicine).
The grade for English is part of the Learning Module for students in physiotherapy and of the Health & Society Module for students in PE. |
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| Contacts : | Dr. Christine BOUVY, ISLV, Responsable des Cours de Langues Facultaires, cbouvy@ulg.ac.be , and Ms Pascale Drianne, coordinator of English courses for the Faculty of Medicine, P.Drianne@ulg.ac.be |
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| Remarks : | 1. 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.
2. Students can also train online. To do so, simply log on to http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be (http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be/. Click on )ANGLAIS and INTERFACE ETUDIANTS in order to have access to the exercises.
The website also contains several exams and their key.
3. Grammar reference works will be presented in the coursebook. |
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