Advanced English for Biomedical Science

Duration

30h Pr, 10h AUTR

Number of credits

Lecturer

Yasmine Badir, Christine Filot, Andrea Tudino

Language(s) of instruction

English 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

Learning unit contents

The course Advanced English for Biomedical Science (LANG5001-A-a) continues the development of reading and listening, data gathering, note-taking, analyzing and synthetizing using, on the one hand, scientific texts or sets of texts and, on the other hand, lectures or reported scientific news in the field of biomedical sciences.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The main objectives for this course are being able to analyze and synthesize English scientific literature and understand scientific lectures in English, take notes and synthesize them. In this view, we will:

• review several grammar points in a scientific context,
• build on Academic English and specific vocabulary,
• practice reading to become more efficient readers,
• listen to lectures and take notes to practice our listening skills,
• do some research, share our findings, collect data, and learn how to synthesize this information,
• learn how to recognize the structure of a text or lecture,
• learn how to paraphrase and avoid plagiarism,
• learn how to write a summary,
• learn how to recognize attitude and degrees of certainty,
• learn how to describe a graph.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

English for Medical Science (LANG4001-1) or equivalent.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course consists of two-hour in-class sessions. Students will be expected to conscientiously prepare for the scheduled in-class activities in order to be able to take part in them as actively as possible. These activities will feature sharing and comparing collected data with the other participants, continuous checking of learning process, text analysis and note taking.

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

The course features 2-hour in-class sessions combined with online exercises posted on eCampus.

Recommended or required readings

The course book is available at INTERCOPY and on eCampus. Online grammar modules are accessible via eCampus.

Assessment methods and criteria

Attendance is compulsory. Students must attend at least 70% of classes (i.e. 10 out of 15 classes) to be allowed to attend the January exam.
Students' overall grade will be calculated as follows:

• Class work: at least one summary to be done in class (/1), and the pre-test and the two post-tests of each of the four grammar modules posted on eCampus (/1)
• In class written test on summary writing scheduled on November 7, 2017 (/2)
• January written exam: answering questions about and summarizing a 10-minute lecture (/6), writing a summary of a scientific article on one of the four topics addressed in class (/6), exercises on the grammar points and vocabulary studied in class (/3), exercises on graph description (/1).

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Yasmine Badir, ISLV, yasmine.badir@ulg.ac.be
Andrea Tudino, ISLV, andrea.tudino@ulg.ac.be

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