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| LANG0071-1 | English II
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| Duration : | 15h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Christine Filot, Ellen Harry, ISLV |
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| Coordinator : | Christine Filot |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Course contents :
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| The MedEng 2 course continues the development of reading skills, data gathering, and note-taking using texts or series of texts (as started during the MedEng 1 course), and focuses also on research capacities, oral understanding, and presentation skills. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| - allow students to read and understand English medical literature.
- allow students to understand short oral presentations in English.
- allow students to present in English scientific or medical information in a correct and consistent fashion. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| MedEng 1 (Medical English -1st part, in 1st year of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine or Dentistry) or equivalent (e.g. IELTS 5.5-6 or Cambridge Advanced English A- C). |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course features two-hour in-class sessions (where the students' active participation is required) alternating with mandatory online modules. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is taught in groups after an introductory lecture given in amphitheater. Class attendance is compulsory. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Medeng2 course notes are compulsory. They are available from Intercopy (opposite Marco Polo).
Compulsory modules with exercises and tests on E-campus. The completion of the online modules is taken into account in the final grade. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam with multiple choice questions (IELTS 6.0 level) based on a medical article, theory revised in the course of the year and listening comprehension.
Students must demonstrate the ability to understand an unabridged and unsimplified paper from a medical journal and medical data presented orally (global and detailed understanding) as well as their knowledge of scientific English stylistic features. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| We insist on the fact that you can train and test yourself online on the ISLV Website: http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be/. Then click on LES LANGUES > ANGLAIS > Interface Etudiants > SITE INTERACTIF or EXERCICES de grammaire automatisés in order to have access to the exercises. |
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Contacts :
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| Christine Bouvy cbouvy@ulg.ac.be, Ellen Harry eharry@ulg.ac.be, Julien Dubois jdubois@ulg.ac.be and Sébastien Schoenmaeckers sebastien.schoenmaeckers@ulg.ac.be. |
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