Teacher
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Nikitina Jekaterina
(syllabus)
The syllabus is structured around the topics of the thematic module listed below. Each lecture focuses on the analysis of different types of written and oral texts taken, adapted and simplified from original documents. Each lecture includes sections dedicated to grammar practice and vocabulary building, as well as insights into linguistic and discursive peculiarities of Medical-Scientific English. The lectures offer specific exercises aimed at developing the students’ four language skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking) in a systematic and integrated way.
THEMATIC MODULE: • Healthcare professionals. Major medical specialties. The nursing profession. • Job interview. Student nurse’s profile. Practical skills: How to write a CV. • The hospital. Understanding the daily ward routine. • Hospital admissions. Taking a history. • Accidents and emergencies. First aid. • Pain. Symptoms. • Geriatric healthcare. Caring for the elderly. • Pregnancy and infertility. • Nutrition. Food and diet. Bad habits. • Physical and mental health. Mental health nursing. • The human body. • Body systems. • Clinical assessment. • Monitoring the patient. Patient discharge. • Common illnesses. Pandemics. Infectious diseases. • Medication. • Death and dying. • Hygiene. Prevention and treatment. • Ethics in medicine. Informed consent. • Medical advances improving lives. GRAMMAR MODULE: • The language of definitions; • Relative pronouns; • The passive voice in scientific publications: writing workshop; • The English noun: countable and uncountable forms; • Making comparisons: the English adjective; • Talking about the past: Past Simple vs. Present Perfect; • Modal verbs and imperative mood; • Quantifiers. DISCOURSE MODULE: • Languages for Specific Purposes; • Medical-Scientific English and its features; • Specialized dictionaries; • Specialized terminology vs. lay expressions; • Note-taking methods; • Nominalization in Scientific English; • Professional discourse types: writing workshop; • English as a modern lingua franca of medical communication; • Understanding a scientific publication; • Introduction to writing a scientific paper; • Plagiarism and how to avoid it.
This syllabus is subject to change based on the needs of the class.
(reference books)
The course book is the following: - I. Parini, F. Malaguti, R. Roberts, English for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, 2nd edition, edited by A. Destrebecq, G. Ledonne, I. Parini, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2018. Other materials needed to follow the lessons will be available online. The texts to be analyzed will be uploaded online before single lessons, and the students are kindly asked to print them. Supplementary texts (optional reading): - B. Bettinelli, N. Carlini, P. Catenaccio, English for Medicine, Hoepli, Milano, 2005 - T. Grice, Oxford English for Careers: Nursing. Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book, OUP, Oxford, 2007.
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