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| LANG0074-1 | English II
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Christine Filot, Ellen Harry |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| 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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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| - 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 and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| 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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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course features two-hour in-class sessions (where the students' active participation is required) alternating with mandatory online modules. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is taught in groups after an introductory lecture given in amphitheater. Class attendance is compulsory. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Medeng2 course notes are compulsory. They are available from Intercopy (opposite Marco Polo).
Compulsory modules with exercises and tests on eCcampus. The completion of the online modules is taken into account in the final grade. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam with multiple choice questions (IELTS 6.0 level) based on a medical article, theory revised in the course of the year and listening comprehension.
Students must demonstrate the ability to understand an unabridged and unsimplified paper from a medical journal and medical data presented orally (global and detailed understanding) as well as their knowledge of scientific English stylistic features. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| We insist on the fact that you can train and test yourself online on the ISLV Website: http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be/. |
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Contacts :
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| Christine Bouvy cbouvy@ulg.ac.be, Ellen Harry eharry@ulg.ac.be, Julien Dubois jdubois@ulg.ac.be and Sébastien Schoenmaeckers sebastien.schoenmaeckers@ulg.ac.be. |
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