Foreign Language (English)

Code:

117

Acronym:

117

Instance: 2005/2006 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	109	Plano oficial a partir de 2005	1	1	1	-

Objectives

To provide first-year students with the basic skills necessary to deal with the literature they will be obliged to read in English as part of their course. As the skills in language learning cannot be entirely separated, the course will also require some speaking, listening and writing on the part of the students to ascertain their understanding of the texts, though comprehension of written texts will always be the main emphasis.

Program

1. Reading for general meaning
2. Reading for specific meaning
3. Identifying key points in a text
4. Dealing with difficult words; understanding word structure
5. Understanding how facts/ideas are connected in a text.
6. Understanding collocations
7. Finding related word forms and grouping words in semantic sets (glossaries)
8. Interpreting graphics

Main Bibliography

Glendinning E.H. and Holmström B., Study Reading
2nd edition, Cambridge, C.U.P., 2004.
Grellet, Françoise Developing Reading Skills, Cambridge University Press. 1987
Cox, Kathy, Hill, David English for Academic Purposes Pearson/ Longman, 2004.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Texts - on dentistry or other subjects relevant to the course, of varying length and difficulty - will be looked at in class and a number of exercises and activities will be undertaken to help the students develop useful reading strategies.
This is a student-centred course in which students will expected to participate actively. There will also be a certain amount of preparation and consolidation outside class hours.
Material to be used in class will mostly be provided by the teachers but students are expected to have access to a good quality mono-lingual English dictionary and a good quality English-Portuguese dictionary. They will be expected to build up their own glossaries of useful terms – both specific to dentistry and more general words/ phrases which are used in text construction.

Evaluation Type

Observations

The course will be taught in English