Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2023/2024
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Scientific English for Medical and Healthcare Purposes (2022/2023)
Teaching code
4S01572
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
3
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH
Period
Lm Sio BZ - VR 1A 1S (Coorte 2022), Lm Sio BZ - VR 1A 2S (Coorte 2022)
Learning objectives
The course aims to improve the linguistic tools to know the specific lexical panorama of the scientific literature related to the thematic of nursing and midwifery and the modalities of reading and understanding, the structure of scientific language in writing and oral processing. The program also includes a morpho-syntactic and lexical analysis of the texts examined, helping students to consolidate and develop the linguistic skills required by the readings. The aim is also to prepare students to rephrase in English the contents of the research in written form with abstracts, scientific articles and posters and in oral form through the preparation of speech and reports.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Students enrolled in the degree course
Program
The programme includes:
Activities in small groups for developing the following skills:
Reading skills, research skills, speaking and presenting skills, dialogue skills, paraphrasing skills.
Terms and grammar.
Research skills
EBP workshop
Academic English
Glossary
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Video projection and scientific texts with comprehension, translation and reformulation exercises.
Learning assessment procedures
The exam is an oral exam. An English-language presentation of a research work carried out by a team of 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 speech and visual aids
An abstract and a poster
Evaluation criteria
Linguistic, academic and content skills.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Approved / not approved
Exam language
Inglese e Italiano
