| CODE | IFS0517 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Grammar and Medical Terminology | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 4 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Medical and Dental Sciences | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit is designed to develop the grammar and terminology skills necessary to function effectively as a degree student of Medicine, Dentistry and Allied Health at the University of Malta. Throughout the year the students will work to develop the fundamental skills necessary to comprehend medical texts in English successfully, produce accurate grammatical structures and use technical terms appropriately. Study-unit Aims: At word level For students to: • extend their technical and academic vocabulary giving them more effective means of expression in their written work and enhanced comprehension in reading; • determine word class and form new lexis from the existing root; • focus on accuracy in spelling. At sentence level For students to: • recognise the form and function of, and use appropriately, upper intermediate and advanced structures, including: verb tenses, active and passive voices, verb/noun agreements, modal verbs, gerunds and infinitives, articles, comparative and superlative adjectives, quantifiers, reported speech and indirect questions, adverbial clauses, conditional sentences, conditional/modal combinations, inversion, non-finite clauses, verb patterns, relative clauses and noun phrases, contrastive structures. At text level For students to: • recognise different discipline specific text genres such as case studies, medical records and chart notes, and deal with language and terminology in these contexts. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to complete the following types of exercise: • Produce accurate sentences from prompts; • Complete gap fills with appropriate grammatical forms; • Correct grammatical errors in a text; • Expand notes to form grammatically accurate paragraphs; • Produce definitions for technical medical words; • Produce correct terms in response to a definition; • Analyse and deduce the meaning of a term based on its combining forms, prefixes and suffixes; • Compose terms using root forms, prefixes and suffixes; • Adapt a text in plain English into medical English and vice versa. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Demonstrate effective grammar and terminology skills to express complex meaning with precision, accuracy, concision and coherence; • Demonstrate ability to understand and use medical terminology appropriately in context. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Fremgen, B. and Frucht, S (2017) Medical Terminology: A Living Language. 7th ed. New York: Pearson. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite qualifications: As per Legal Notice 115 of Education Act (2009) This study-unit is offered only to the Certificate in Foundation Studies students. 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 | Ruth Bellizzi Edward Wilkinson |
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