Academic English. What is engineering? Atom. Materials in electrical engineering. The electric circuit. Transistors. Tenses (form, use, adverbs of time). Making questions (yes-no questions, wh-questions). Adjectives and adverbs. The passive voice. Functions of “as”. Cause and effect discourse markers. Classification.

Knowledge and skills acquired

Reading and understanding texts from the field of electrical engineering, acquisition of new ESP vocabulary, broadening of knowledge pertaining to new structures typical of the English language (with special attention paid to Technical English), broadening and acquisition of new verbal and non-verbal communication patterns.

Teaching methods

Lectures and language practice include terminology relative to fundamental fields of students' future profession, basic grammatical structures of the English language, as well as ESP characteristics necessary for basic speech acts.

Student requirements

Defined by the Student evaluation criteria of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek and paragraph 1.9

Monitoring of students

Defined by the Student evaluation criteria of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek and paragraph 1.9

Student assessment

Individual homework or group task projects, regular communication, exercises, written and oral examination.

Obligatory literature

1. 1 Bošnjak Terzić, B. Study Technical English 1 Zagreb: Školska knjiga 2009.

2. 2 Bartolić, Lj. Technical English in Electronics and Electrical Power Engineering Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1994.

Pretraži literaturu na:

1. 1 Murphy, R. English Grammar in Use CUP, Cambridge, 1995.

Written and oral exam.

Course assessment

Conducting university questionnaires on teachers (student-teacher relationship, transparency of assessment criteria, motivation for teaching, teaching clarity, etc.). Conducting Faculty surveys on courses (upon passing the exam, student self-assessment of the adopted learning outcomes and student workload in relation to the number of ECTS credits allocated to activities and courses as a whole).

Overview of course assesment

1. identify and describe the differences between general and technical English language based on the chosen specialised texts and topics

2. recognise essential elements (key words) from a complex specialised text and compose shorter texts based on provided key words

3. define and interpret specialised vocabulary used in texts and use the vocabulary while translating short specialised texts

4. use grammatical structures in both written and spoken communication

5. summarise texts, arguments and definitions in a written form

6. summarise diagrams, schemes, figures and mathematical formulas orally and in written form

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