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| LANG0905-2 | English
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| Duration : | 24h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Pascale Drianne, Christine Filot, ISLV |
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| Coordinator : | Christine Filot, Sébastien Schoenmaeckers |
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| Language : | English language |
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| Course contents : | The English course in Medicine aims at enabling the students to read medical texts in English. The first-year course is a medical English course of B2 level (for reading). It consists of 12 classes of 2 hours taught to groups of about 30 students. As the main purpose of the course is to develop a KNOW-HOW, the students are encouraged to do reading comprehension exercises each week. This enables them to progressively acquire the basic medical vocabulary and improve their reading skill. |
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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. the British Medical Journal).
Acquired skills should allow students to access specific scientific literature easily and efficiently. |
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| Prerequisites : | The Med Eng 1course has a B2 level for reading, which means that the students are expected to already have a basic grounding in English grammar and vocabulary. It takes place in the second semester.
The students must have a good basic gounding in English (minimum A2 level). |
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| Organization : | The Med Eng 1 course is taught in the second semester. It consists of about 10 COURSE UNITS and a self-assessment test .
A placement test is held on 24th September to identify the students who will need to do the remedial course in the first semester.
Written exam in June. |
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| Written notes : | The MedEng 1 and Premed course books will be available from the INTERCOPY shop of September.
All students are required to buy both course books, which together represent the English course for the 1st year of the Bachelor's Degree in the Medicine Faculty. |
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| Assessment : | Written exam.
The students will be asked to answer multiple-choice and T/F questions on the medical vocabulary listed in the MedEng1 course book as well as on a sight text dealing with a medical subject. |
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| Contacts : | Dr Christine BOUVY, ISLV, Responsable des Cours de Langues Facultaires, cbouvy@ulg.ac.be and Ms P. 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 among 1st-year students and the limited teaching time, supervised self-learning and remedial work should be given due attention.
Students are encouraged to work every week and seriously do the work required for each course Unit.
2. The students can also train online. To do so, simply log on to http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be. Click on ANGLAIS and INTERFACE ETUDIANTS in order to have access to the exercises.
3. They can also purchase the ISLV Grammaire Anglaise de Base with exercises (and key). It is available from the Point de Vue on the Sart Tilman campus. |
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