Teaching code

4S01572

Teacher

Laura Letizia Virgilio

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH

Period

1° e 2° semestre (corsi annuali) PROFESSIONE SANITARIE dal Oct 2, 2023 al Sep 30, 2024.

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The main aims of the course are as follows: 1. To introduce and practice Healthy and Safety terminology; 2. To develop the four skills- listening, speaking, reading, writing-with particular attentionpaid to text comprehension; 3. Analysis of authentic material to carry out research, build on and consolidate grammatical structure, register and lexis; 4. Improve English-Italian translational ability.

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

The course aims at providing students with the necessary linguistic competences for the written and oral comprehension and production of medical and scientific texts. For this reason, the course will pay special attention to the lexical, syntactic and pragmatic dimensions of the specialized English that is employed in medical and academic fields in general.
Specifically, the course provides the necessary methodological tools to:
1. acquire the strategies, techniques and knowledge of the specificities of English for Medical Purposes and academic English at B2 level (CEFR);
2. be capable of applying the skills above to comprehend and produce texts in the field of medicine and academic language;
3. be able to communicate about general topics at a B2 level;
4. be capable of sustaining an oral debate concerning basic of medicine and scientific matters at a B2 level.
COMPREHENSION KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
At the end of the course, students will acquire the lexical and linguistic- communicative bases (at a B2 level) that are necessary to comprehend oral and written general and academic texts related to the following topics:
“General anatomy and physiology of the human body, specific focus on the nerus system and the muscolo-skeletal system and its disorders/pathologies; definition of prosthesis , history and development, features, elements and indications. Definition of pain, residual limb and phantom limb. Defintion of posture, body movement and gait. Normal gait and prosthetic gait, international scales to assess gait. The Healthcare Team and the role of Prosthetic and Orthotic Techinician. Effective communication with the patient/patient's family; patient's records and healthcare documents, scholarly papers and research”.
APPLIED KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION SKILLS
They will also be capable of applying such knowledge to produce oral and written texts concerning health communication at a B2 level.
INDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT At the end of the course, students will be able to identify the most appropriate methods to analyse texts in English at a B2 level about the following areas:
"General anatomy and physiology of the human body, specific focus on the nerus system and the muscolo-skeletal system and its disorders/pathologies; definition of prosthesis , history and development, features, elements and indications. Definition of pain, residual limb and phantom limb. Defintion of posture, body movement and gait. Normal gait and prosthetic gait, international scales to assess gait. The Healthcare Team and the role of Prosthetic and Orthotic Techinician. Effective communication with the patient/patient's family; patient's records and healthcare documents, scholarly papers and research”..
COMMUNICATION SKILLS At the end of the course, students will be able to describe basic concepts in English (at a B2 level) concerning the semantic areas that have been dealt with during the course by means of written and oral texts using accurate and appropriate language.
LEARNING SKILLS At the end of the course, students will be able to apply acquired linguistic notions and learning methodologies to general and academic contexts and contents going beyond those dealt with during the course and know how to independently analyse new topics on English for medical purposes.
Revision and consolidation of selected grammar topics (intermediate/advanced level) throughout the course

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures (45 hours), in-depth films to support the study of monographic material and the preparation of academic vocabulary. The frontal lessons provide all the tools for the analysis and discussion of written and oral texts on the main study areas of scientific medical English and Academic English, as well as the foundations for mastering linguistic-communicative and pragmatic-linguistic skills. necessary to understand and produce texts in B2 level English. The active participation of students will be constantly solicited and promoted through discussion activities on case studies, articles and group work

Learning assessment procedures

Language skills and knowledge of scientific and technical vocabulary will be assessed using a mixed method which involves the written preparation of a case study (powerpoint) and its oral presentation in English.

Evaluation criteria

The final mark is expressed in PASS/FAIL.
The minimum score to pass the exam is 18/30.

Exam language

Inglese/English