ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARIAGRAZIA RITA TORRISI

Learning Objectives

-Consolidating grammar and vocabulary, with particular attention to medical terms in use

-Consolidating the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)

-Providing a lexical basis of technical language.

The students will acquire a level of linguistic competence which allows them :

to interact effectively in professional multilingual and multicultural contexts,
to participate in seminars, workshops and international conferences
to join Erasmus programme
to gain access to any post-graduate courses of study abroad and/or work experiences

At the end of the course students are expected to be able to:

- read and comprehend the meaning of specific scientific texts; - Translate from English a text of medical-scientific nature; - understand technical instructions in order to use sanitary devices and materials; - communicate in English in both general situations and health care setting; - Know the technical-scientific terminology concerning the profession

The level of competence expected by the end of the course is B1 + / B2 level of the CEFR.

Course Structure

Teacher -led classes.

Attendance is compulsory

The course is articulated in 14 hours of frontal lessons which are held in the first semester, according with the didactic timetable issued by the Course Coordinator.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme reported in the syllabus.

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons, Interactive teaching, study of cases. The course will have as its object the study of E.S.P. ,through the analysis of specific documents and worksheets ,taken from the text books or on line .

The extracts will be used as the basis for activities of reading comprehension and “reading into writing”, including the production of short “case report”

The grammar structures and the main functions of language will be treated through consolidation activities, carried out individually or in groups, with particular attention to lexical research on terms pertaining Speech Therapy and the relevant professional careers