| CODE | IFS0514 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Medical and Academic English Listening | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Medical and Dental Sciences | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to enable students to develop their listening skills, improve their vocabulary and consolidate their academic note-taking skills. Students will listen to discipline-specific texts of differing types and of increasing difficulty throughout the course and will be trained in reacting appropriately to them. Study-unit Aims: General Listening Skills For students to: 1) Listen for specific information; 2) React appropriately to what is heard; 3) Listen for main ideas; 4) Listen and answer comprehension questions; 5) Make predictions about content from context; 6) Remember information from the first time that they listen; 7) Listen and complete a table or chart; 8) Listen and complete a text; 9) Comment on the content of a recording. Academic Listening Skills For students to: 1) Understand lecture organization; 2) Choose appropriate note taking strategies; 3) Predict lecture content; 4) Understand signpost language in lectures; 5) Use symbols and abbreviations in note taking; 6) Understand speaker emphasis; 7) Recognise digression; 8) Recognize opinion and stance; 9) Identify audience and purpose from a recording. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Demonstrate understanding of academic lectures and debates, presentations, and technical documentaries, by summarizing their main points, making use of specific details and reporting what they have learnt; 2. Listen to longer lectures, choose appropriate strategies for note taking, make coherent notes and use them successfully as reference material; 3. Use a wide range of lexical structures accurately and appropriately to enhance their writing and ensure that note taking is coherent. 2. Skills: 1. Listen effectively when taking part in lectures, seminars and talks; 2. Demonstrate effective listening skills to deduce meaning, confirm expectations, extract specific information, and infer opinion and attitude; 3. Independently produce their own ordered and coherent notes for future reference; 4. Show an awareness listening text organization depending on text type. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - N’Shea, O. and Wilkinson, E (2018) Academic Medical English Listening for Pathway / Foundation Programmes. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite qualifications: As per Legal Notice 115 of Education Act (2009) Please note that a pass in the Examination component is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | James Bugeja |
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