Aims

At the end of this module, the student will have developed mainly receptive (listening and reading) abilities in English. The level reached will be sufficient to understand a scientific text in English on the subject of physical education or physiotherapy and rehabilitation as well as to understand a simple oral communication in these domains.

Main themes

To fulfil these objectives, teaching activity will focus on the following topics
- reading strategies in the foreign language
- decoding strategies for listening comprehension in the foreign language
- English grammatical structures
- development of English vocabulary pertaining to the science of motricity

Content and teaching methods

Code and title :
ANGL 1851 English comprehension of scientific texts of physiotherapy, rehabilitation and physical education.

- Year of study : IEPR Bac 2.

- Number of hours, rhythm, terms : 60h, 2h/week, the whole year.
- Aim:
reading and listening comprehension of texts in physiotherapy, rehabilitation and physical education, study of specific vocabulary and basic grammar, reading aloud (stress and pronunciation).

- Evaluation : diagnostic and exemption tests ; written and oral exams.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pre-requisite

Evaluation
Written or oral exam and/or some continuous assessmentAt the beginning of the year, students may take a test organised by ILV to determine the level of English. Successful students will be exempted from the course

Support
Course notes and/or book(s) + self-teaching CD Rom

Supervision
titular professor

Others
The level to be achieved corresponds to Level C1 (lower) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages for reading comprehension and to Level B2 (lower) for listening comprehension

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