Greek Language VI
| Title | Ελληνική Γλώσσα VI / Greek Language VI |
| Code | MD1044 |
| Faculty | Health Sciences |
| School | Medicine |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Spring |
| Coordinator | Georgia Gavriilidou |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600020241 |
Programme of Study: English-language Undergraduate Study Program of the School of Medicine (2021-today)
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | Compulsory Course | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Academic Year | 2026 – 2027 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Instructors from Other Categories | |
| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 45 |
| Class ID | 600302607
|
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600302607
Learning Outcomes
Students will improve their already developed skills from previous levels and from the previous semester to communicate in an informal or formal style across a variety of communicative situations in their daily personal, social, and professional life, related to their medical studies, with a high degree of independence and accuracy. They will enhance their ability to understand the main ideas as well as the essential details of complex oral or written texts on both concrete and abstract topics and to interact comfortably and with a high degree of spontaneity in their communication with native speakers of the language. They will be able to produce clear and detailed texts on a wide range of topics related to their daily life and studies, to describe, narrate, as well as express and explain their opinions orally or in writing, presenting arguments, advantages, and disadvantages.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Adapt to new situations
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
In the course of Modern Greek Language for foreign AUTH Medical School students: level Β2.2 (independent user), students will improve their already developed skills from previous levels to communicate in an informal or formal style across a variety of communicative situations in their daily personal, social, and professional life, related to their medical studies, with a high degree of independence and accuracy. They will enhance their ability to understand the main ideas as well as the essential details of complex oral or written texts on both concrete and abstract topics and to interact comfortably and with a high degree of spontaneity in their communication with native speakers of the language. They will be able to produce clear and detailed texts on a wide range of topics related to their daily life and studies, to describe, narrate, as well as express and explain their opinions orally or in writing, presenting arguments, advantages, and disadvantages.
The types of texts students will encounter include articles and reports mainly related to health but also to modern-day issues, lectures, informational and news texts (from newspapers, print media, television, radio, internet, etc.).
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
• Understand extended spoken or written discourse that may contain complex arguments and to interact with ease and spontaneity in their communication with native speakers on a variety of concrete or abstract topics related to their medical studies and personal interests, while supporting their opinions.
• Write clear and detailed texts by presenting information, examples, and arguments to support or counter an opinion.
• Recognize and use elements of Greek morphology and syntax from both previous levels and the B2 level (e.g., masculine nouns ending in -έας, neuter nouns in -ος and -ον, irregular nouns, double forms, exceptions, adjectives in -ής-ής-ές, -ύς-εία-ύ, -ων-ουσα-ον, pronouns, active, passive, and deponent verbs in all tenses, use of passive voice and syntax, expressing possibility and wish etc.).
Keywords
Greek as a second/foreign language, academic speech
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | |||||
| Other / Others | |||||
| Total |
Student Assessment
Description
Four language skills' evaluation (listening, reading, speaking, writing) according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment 2001. Council of Europe, Cambridge University Press, http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/elp/elp-reg/Source/Key_reference/CEFR_EN.pdf.
Due to the interactive character of teaching there is the possibility to evaluate students during class.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Summative)
- Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
- Oral Exams (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Βαζάκα Μ. & Κοκκινίδου Μ., (2011) Εμβαθύνοντας στα ελληνικά. Για ξένους μέσου επιπέδου ελληνομάθειας. Αθήνα: Μεταίχμιο
Last Update
22-10-2025
