English Language

Module:

Social Sciences

ECTS:

3

Contact hours – lectures:

30

Contact hours – seminar:

15

Contact hours – clinical exercises:

0

Contact hours – clinical practice:

0

Holder of subject:

Marjeta Ekar, MSc, Senior Lecturer

Education providers:

• Marjeta Ekar, MSc, Senior Lecturer
• Tanja Stare Pušavec, Assistant

Level of study:

First Bologna cycle professional education study program

Semester:

Summer

Language:

Slovene/English
 

Subject specific competences:

The student:

• Acquisition of active and passive language skills.
• Mastering of nursing and medical terminology.
• Acquisition of basic translation strategies by means of different dictionaries and internet.
• The ability to transfer the acquired knowledge into practice.
• Comprehension of English professional literature during graduate studies and at work.
• A basis for a better understanding and retention of nursing and medical terminology.
• The ability to distinguish between different registers and their use while communicating with patients/clients and professionals.
   

Mandatory and recommended references:

Mandatory references:

• Allum V, McGarr P. Cambridge English for Nursing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2008.
• Murphy R. English Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2000.

Additional textbooks and sources (chapters from English books on medical terminology):     

• Cohen BJ. Medical Terminology. An Illustrated Guide. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2004.
• Hutton AR.  An Introduction to Medical Terminology. 2nd ed. London: Churchill Livingstone; 1999.
• Steiner Soltesz S. Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide. Haboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2002.

Other additional references: professional articles in English chosen by the lecturer:

• Mini-dictionary for Nurses, Oxford University Press
• Distionary of Nursing, Oxford University Press
• Dictionary of Nursing, Bloomsbury

Study obligations:

• 30% obligatory attendance  at lectures
• 100% obligatory attendance at seminars
• seminar work

Assessment methods: