Teaching code

4S01572

Teacher

Loredana Pancheri

Coordinator

Loredana Pancheri

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH

Period

1° e 2° semestre (corsi annuali) PROFESSIONI SANITARIE dal Oct 3, 2022 al Sep 30, 2023.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide students with specific language skills in the oral and written comprehension and production of medical-scientific texts, with a focus on the lexical, syntactic and rhetorical-pragmatic dimension of scientific English. The educational activity offers students the language tools to also support a dialogue with the patient/user and to learn about the lexical landscape specific to the scientific literature. The aim of the course is to allow students to train for an interview in a professional setting and to perfect their grammar. The course aims to prepare students to train the following skills: the ability to understand specialized texts of interest, the ability to manage a dialogue with a user in a professional context. The course also aims to exercise language skills in the writing of scientific material and the compilation of clinical documentation in English. The training course also aims to help students learn EBP research standards for analysing remains, asking a research question and presenting results and relevance. During the frontal lectures there will be analysis of scientific texts in English, indications of research tools and practical exercises for the consolidation of the terminology.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Students enrolled in the first year of the degree course.

Program

Contents
- the structure of the English language
- the construction of dialogues for the analysis of the patient's care needs
- communication techniques for effective expression and understanding
- the specialist health care glossary
- the statistical glossary
- specialist research glossary
- elements of grammar
- grammatical analysis of sentences
- logical analysis of sentences
- analysis of the unit of meaning: the paragraph
- mind maps and structure of scientific publications
- comprehension techniques, paraphrasing
- meaning-oriented reading
- Expressive and referential translation techniques
- Active listening techniques
- exercise in understanding web pages for researching articles and journals online
Methodology
During the lessons there will be a frontal part in English with a slide projection in ppt that the students will read and listen to trying to understand the meaning, guided by some comprehension questions. This is followed by the translation of all the projected phrases to help even students with a basic knowledge of English to follow the content and build a personal glossary that they can bring to the exam. The lessons continue with the analysis of the readings and with group exercises during which students apply the techniques illustrated.
The articles and abstracts examined are chosen following the guidelines of the degree co-ordinator who identifies suitable readings for the students.
Lessons also involve listening to and creating dialogues with the patient and applying effective communication techniques to distinguish clear and structured dialogues from ineffective ones. In this way, students focus on the structure of communication and abandon their fear of expression in a foreign language. (One pretends in order to be serious. Pirandello

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Methodology
During the lessons there will be a frontal part in English with a slide projection in ppt that the students will read and listen to trying to understand the meaning, guided by some comprehension questions. This is followed by the translation of all the projected phrases to help even students with a basic knowledge of English to follow the content and build a personal glossary that they can bring to the exam. The lessons continue with the analysis of the readings and with group exercises during which students apply the techniques illustrated.
The articles and abstracts examined are chosen following the guidelines of the degree co-ordinator who identifies suitable readings for the students.
Lessons also involve listening to and creating dialogues with the patient and applying effective communication techniques to distinguish clear and structured dialogues from ineffective ones. In this way, students focus on the structure of communication and abandon their fear of expression in a foreign language. (One pretends in order to be serious. Pirandello

Learning assessment procedures

The exam provides for the presentation in English of a work prepared by a group of 2 students. The work consists in the presentation in English of a topic of your choice to be identified among the topics addressed in the classroom. In particular, the presentation must contain: The description of an area of interest / topic with data, definitions, any descriptive videos, statistics and a complete description of the background of the topic. The description of a Background or Foreground or PET research question as per the indications described during the lessons. The description of the search methods, such as keywords, databases, journals, etc ... The summary of the studies found The choice of one or more studies selected as evidence with the reasons for the choice The analysis of the contents of the studies with the active reading as per exercises during the course. The conclusions of the analysis Reflections on the relevance of the contents learned The glossary of the scientific terms of the readings elaborated in the manner described during the course. The group of students attending the exam prepares a performance with slides and a speech in English. The exam also includes a written test in the exam session to integrate the presentations.

Evaluation criteria

Linguistic, academic, terminological and content skills.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Approved / not approved

Exam language

Inglese e Italiano