Teaching code

4S01572

Teacher

Laura Letizia Virgilio

Coordinator

Laura Letizia Virgilio

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH

Period

lezioni CLID - ROV - 1 E 2 SEMESTRE dal Oct 2, 2023 al Sep 30, 2024.

Courses Single

Not Authorized

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

Before starting this course, students should have acquired fairly good competence in English level B1. We strongly suggest further practice of basic skills for those who do not have this prerequisite. Supplementary online material will be provided via website for students who have a poor background in English (lower than B1). In such cases, further tutorial support may be provided on request. Please contact your lecturer for further information.

Program

ENGLISH GRAMMAR REVISION FOR LEVEL B2
Talking about the present
Past tenses ( narrative tenses, used to, would)
Future tenses (Future forms, future in the past, other ways to express the future)
Modals (permission, obligation, prohibition, necessity)
The imperative
Conditionals (All conditionals, wish, rather, and other expressions in conditionals)
Passive voice (Expressions and passive of reporting verbs)
Ing and the Infinitive (Verb patterns, gerund/infinitive complex forms)
Word order and Syntax
ENGLISH FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES
1. Use of medical vocabulary (lay terms and scientific terms)
Fundamentals of the anatomy and physiology of the following systems: cardiovascular,respiratory, digestive, muscolo-skeletal , central nervous .
2. Anatomy of the oral cavity
3. Main pathologies of the oral cavity
4. The concept of pain.
5. Patient's interview and assessment
6. Tools , instruments and equipment.
7. Main techniques in Dental Hygiene.
8. What is Dental Hygiene? The role of Dental Hygienists
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PAPERS
- types of scientific papers
- structure and organization of a scientific paper
- analysis of scientific texts in English,
- indications of research tools,
- the glossary of research : introduction and
consolidation of research terminology.
- EBP research standards for analysing remains,
asking a research question and presenting
results and relevance

Didactic methods

Lectures (45 hours), instructional videos to support the study of the monographic material and the student’s study of academic vocabulary. Lectures provide students with the necessary tools to analyse and discuss oral and written texts concerning the main areas of English for medical purposes and academic English, as well as ones that are fundamentals for the mastery of linguistic-communicative and pragmatic-linguistic skills that are required to understand and produce texts in English at a B2 level.
During the lessons, held entirely in English, various activities will be proposed aimed at developing the four language skills and students will be encouraged to participate actively, even in small group activities that promote the development of indipendent studying, communication skills (both verbal and written) in scientific /professional context and peer confrontation.

Learning assessment procedures

The final exam involves the preparation and oral presentation in English of a short in-depth essay on one of the topics presented during the course (for example, a scientific article, in the nature of EBP research)

Evaluation criteria

Linguistic proficiency is achieved upon passing the oral test.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final mark is expressed in PASS/FAIL.

Exam language

Inglese /English