Duration
30h Pr, 10h AUTR
Number of credits
| Bachelor in biomedicine | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
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 to understand scientific lectures in English, take notes and answer open-ended questions about these lectures.
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 on eCampus. Online grammar modules are accessible via eCampus as well.
Assessment methods and criteria
Students' overall grade will be calculated as follows:
- Homework: the pre-test and the two post-tests of each of the four grammar modules posted on eCampus (/1)
- January written exam: answering questions about and summarizing a lecture (/6), writing a summary of a scientific article on one of the four topics addressed in class (/8), exercises on the grammar points and vocabulary studied in class (/4), exercises on graph description (/1).
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Yasmine Badir, ISLV, yasmine.badir@uliege.be
Jérôme Gaillard, ISLV, jgaillard@uliege.be
Andrea Tudino, ISLV, andrea.tudino@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Given that the second session exam must happen online and last no more than 2 hours, it will be limited to the part "Reading comprehension and summarizing". The grammar and vocabulary skills acquired in class will be evaluated through this writing exercise. There will be no listening test in second session.
The exam will consist in summarizing a 3-page scientific text into a 300 to 500-word text. The exam will last 2 hours. The students will be able to download the text to summarize at the beginning of the exam on eCampus, and will then be able to upload their summary typed in a word document on eCampus.
Assessment methods
Students' overall grade will be calculated as follows:
- Homework: the pre-test and the two post-tests of each of the four grammar modules posted on eCampus (/1)
- Written exam on eCampus (writing a summary of a scientific article on one of the four topics addressed in class) (/19)
Contacts
Yasmine Badir, ISLV, yasmine.badir@uliege.be
Jérôme Gaillard, ISLV, jgaillard@uliege.be
Andrea Tudino, ISLV, andrea.tudino@uliege.be