Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| English applied to physiotherapy and rehabilitation | ||||||||
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Duration :
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| 24h Pr | ||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Julien Dubois, Christine Filot | ||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
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Course contents :
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| English for Physiotherapy and Sports Sciences develops skills in reading, collecting information and note taking through a corpus of scientific papers. This class articulates around authentic articles in English used for the activation and assimilation of language notions essential to academic research. | ||||||||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| - allow students to read and understand anglophone scientific literature in their field of specialty.
- allow students to understand short oral presentations in English. - allow students to briefly present the tenets of a given scientific article in English. |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| A B1 level in English (reading) and basic grammatical notions. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course features two-hour in-class sessions in which the students' active participation is required (through listening and reading comprehension exercises). | ||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is taught in groups. Class attendance is highly encouraged. | ||||||||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| English for Physiotherapy and Sports Sciences course notes are available in digital format through eCampus. | ||||||||
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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 research article, theory and language revised in the course.
Students must demonstrate the ability to fully understand an unabridged and unsimplified paper from a specialized journal. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Christine Bouvy cbouvy@ulg.ac.be
Julien Dubois jdubois@ulg.ac.be Sébastien Schoenmaeckers Sebastien.Schoenmaeckers@ulg.ac.be |
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