Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide the students with the linguistic tools to learn about the specific lexical domains of the literature related to their subject area, the reading and comprehension methods, the structure of academic language in writing and oral processing. The program also includes a constant morpho-syntactic and lexical analysis of the texts examined, helping students to consolidate and develop the language skills required by the readings. The objective is also to prepare students to reformulate the contents of the research in English in written form with abstracts, scientific articles and posters and in oral form with the preparation of speeches and reports.

Program

The programme includes:
Activities in smaller groups for developing the following skills:
Reading skills, research skills, speaking and presenting skills, dialogue skills, paraphrasing skills.
Terms and grammar.
Academic English fo writing abstracts, articles, preeaoring speeches and posters.

Examination Methods

The exam is an oral exam. An English-language presentation of a research work carried out by a team of students (2 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.