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

LMSIO 1° ANNO 1° Semestre dal Nov 12, 2018 al Jan 18, 2019.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Offrire agli studenti gli strumenti linguistici per conoscere il panorama lessicale specifico della letteratura scientifica relativa al loro ambito disciplinare, le modalità di lettura e comprensione, la struttura del linguaggio scientifico nello scritto e nell’elaborazione orale. Il programma prevede anche una costante analisi morfo-sintattica e lessicale dei testi presi in esame aiutando gli studenti a consolidare e sviluppare le competenze linguistiche richieste dalle letture. L'obiettivo è altresì quello di preparare gli studenti a riformulare in lingua inglese i contenuti della ricerca in forma scritta con abstract, articoli scientifici e poster e in forma orale con la preparazione di speech e report.

Program

The course will be developed as follows:
Activities in smaller groups for developing the following skills:
Reading skills, research skills, speaking and presenting skills, dialogue skills, paraphrasing skills.
Academic English and terminology

Examination Methods

The exam is an oral exam. An English-language presentation of a research work carried out by a team of students (minimum 2 students, maximum 4 students).
The work consists in the presentation of a topic chosen to be identified among the topic addressed in the classroom.
In particular, the presentation will contain:
The description of an area of ​​interest / topic with data, definitions, any descriptive video, statistics and comprehensive description of the topic background.
The description of a research question, Foreground or Background question.
The description of the research methods, such as keywords, such as databases, such as magazines, etc ...
The synthesis of the retrieved studies
The selection of one or more selected studies as evidence with the reasons for choosing
Content analysis of studies with the active reading mode.
The conclusions
The reflections on the relevance of the learned content
A glossary of scientific terms.
The group of students will prepare:
A printed copy of the slides or visual support material
A copy of files to be projected in ppt or Keynote or PDF.
The printing of the evidence.