Foreign Language (English)

Specific Foundation / Core

The course is also offered to exchange programme students.

By the end of the course students will have grasped adequate physics terminology acquisition, which will help them to their school subjects acquisition as well. They will feel more well-grounded and prepared in issues of their specialty. They will acquire specific language skills and knowledge; the course will help them and make them understand the usefulness of it and how they will apply those skills or knowledge in their daily practice. They will be more proficient and sure of themselves in the language acquisition and ESP terminology; students will be much better prepared and organized for any linguistic challenges, after the consolidation and strengthening of the desired vocabulary and key concepts they were taught during the course.

The lesson ‘English for Physics’ is offered as an option both in the 5th and 6th semesters respectively in the department of Physics. The course focuses on vocabulary acquisition through current authentic material on physics subjects from various scientific fields extracting the desirable information from articles, scientific magazines, books, journals and the internet. Besides, students are given practice to specific reading & writing techniques which enable them to better handle various textual analyses. Guidance is offered on a) the structure of a scientific paper b) the standard format of scientific research with information on the procedure followed on how to write such papers c) development of practical reading skills & d) project work and assignments submitted at the end of the semester, too. Class interaction is of primary concern as various scientific topics are introduced and proposed for discussion and dialogue. The course gives students the opportunity to refresh background knowledge and express their point of view and ideas, be involved in issues that interest them and are relevant to their specialty, too.

physics subjects, authentic material, journals, textual analysis, project work, class interaction

21-12-2020