LANG0130-1 : Scientific English Practice (note-taking)

Study Programmes 2015-2016

LANG0130-1

Scientific English Practice (note-taking)

Duration :

5h Th, 25h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in biomedicine (120 ECTS)		3
Master in biomedicine (60 ECTS)		3

Lecturer :

Christine Filot, Vincent Seutin

Coordinator :

Vincent Seutin

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

This course aims to develop the students' skills in spoken scientific English (namely their note-taking and responding ability in lectures in the field of biomedical sciences) .
It is an advanced ESP course (CEFR) levels C1 for listening and note-taking skills, B2 for speaking).

Learning outcomes of the course :

The purpose of this course is to teach the students how to take notes efficiently during a scientific lecture in English in order to

(1) be able to answer accurate questions and/or

(2) respond on the subject of the lecture in English.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Pratique de l'Anglais Scientifique I (compulsory scientific English course in 3rd year of the Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences) or equivalent (e.g. IELTS 6 or Cambridge Advanced English A- C).

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

The course is comprised of:

6 hours of theory on academic note-taking in a foreign language taught to all students together,
workshops (25 hours in all) in which the students will attend actual on-line and real lectures and take notes on the basis of which they will have to answer questions, provide syntheses and/or ask relevant questions. These workshops will be taught by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine.