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| LANG0071-1 | English II
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| Duration : | 15h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Christine Filot, Ellen Harry, ISLV |
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| Coordinator : | Christine Filot |
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| Language : | English language |
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| Course contents : | The MedEng 2 course continues the development of reading skills, data gathering, and note-taking using texts or series of texts (as started during the MedEng 1 course), and focuses also on research capacities, oral understanding, and presentation skills. |
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| Course objective : | - allow students to read and understand English medical literature.
- allow students to understand short oral presentations in English.
- allow students to present in English scientific or medical information in a correct and consistent fashion. |
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| Prerequisites : | MedEng 1 (Medical English -1st part, in 1st year of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine or Dentistry) or equivalent (e.g. IELTS 5.5-6 or Cambridge Advanced English A- C). |
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| Workshops : | The course features two-hour in-class sessions (where the students' active participation is required) alternating with mandatory online modules. |
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| Organization : | The course is taught in groups. Classes start in the first week of the academic year. |
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| Written notes : | Medeng2 course notes are compulsory. They are available from Intercopy (opposite Marco Polo).
Compulsory modules with exercises and tests on WebCT. |
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| Assessment : | Written exam with multiple choice questions (IELTS 6.0 level) and class presentations and/or listening comprehensions.
Students must demonstrate the ability to read and understand a wide selection of English medical texts (global and detailed understanding), to research information and to present in a consistent manner scientific information.
They will also have to demonstrate the ability to understand oral information (presentations or lectures). |
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| Contacts : | Christine Bouvy cbouvy@ulg.ac.be, Ellen Harry eharry@ulg.ac.be and Julien Dubois jdubois@ulg.ac.be. |
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| Remarks : | We insist on the fact that you can train and test yourself online on the ISLV Website: http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be/. Then click on LES LANGUES > ANGLAIS > Interface Etudiants > SITE INTERACTIF or EXERCICES de grammaire automatisés in order to have access to the exercises. |
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