Curricular Unit:			Code:
English I			1023ING1
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Undergraduate	Speech Therapy	3 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese/English	39
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
The present course aims to develop students’ linguistic and communication skills so as to ensure an effective communication in different social and professional situations, as a tool for the student’s specific academic and professional career, and to promote autonomous learning and research. It also expects to consolidate previous acquired language patterns, as well teach students to identify, comment on and produce different types of texts by developing their listening, comprehension, argumentative and problem solving skills.
Syllabus:
1. Socio-professional Situations 1.1. Socialising 1.2. Travelling 1.3. Importance of English in the health area 2. Health 2.1. Hospital Environment 2.2. Human Body 2.3. Health complaints 2.4. Doctor-patient dialogues 3. Project work
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
Development of the students’ linguistic and communicative competence in order to ensure effective communication in a variety of social and professional situations. Consolidation of previously learnt grammatical structures and patterns of English. Identification, analysis, discussion and production of a variety of texts, by improving their listening, understanding, analyzing, and problem solving skills. Development of the students’ critical and cognitive skills, by means of an autonomous learning and management process.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Continuous assessment OR exam The classes consist of lectures, with an emphasis on the instrumental competences: to dialogue, to listen, to read and to understand messages in English language. Assessment is continuous. It consists of two written tests and an oral presentation, by the end of the semester. The final mark is the result of various written and oral contributions. Students’ participation in class and in the activities proposed will also be taken into account.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The thematic items of the syllabus aim to provide the students with generic competences, so as to be able to communicate, understand and produce messages in English language, both in social and professional contexts, where they should be able to use the language in life-like situations. For this purpose, in this curricular unit the students are encouraged to adopt an introspective and reflexive attitude, bearing in mind the social and professional reality of the health area. It is the purpose of this curricular unit that students improve their communicational competences in English, so as to make them able to use this language when establishing different interpersonal contacts, in different social and professional contexts, enabling their professional performance in international environments. The ‘Project Work’ component aims to improve team work skills, with the use of a second language (namely English).
Reading:
Eastwood, J. (2006). Oxford Practice Grammar – Intermediate. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Glendinning, E.H. & Howard, R. (2007). Professional English in Use: Medicine. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Glendinning, E.H. & Holmström, B. (2005). English in Medicine – 3rd Edition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Grice, T. (2007).Oxford English for Careers: Nursing 1. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Hollett, V. and Whitby, N. (2010). Lifestyle. English for work, socializing & travel. Essex, Pearson Education Ltd. Ribes, R. and Ros, P.R. (2006). Medical English. Heidelberg, Springer.