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Technical English

Code:

TPSI04

Sigla:

INGTEC

Áreas Científicas
Classificação	Área Científica
CNAEF	Foreign languages and literatures

Ocorrência: 2021/2022 - 1S

Ativa?	Yes
Página Web:	http://https://moodle.ips.pt/2122/course/view.php?id=649
Unidade Responsável:	Seção de Ciências Empresariais e Comunicação
Curso/CE Responsável:	Professional Technical Higher Education Courses in Technologies and Programming of Information Systems - ESTSetúbal

Ciclos de Estudo/Cursos

Sigla	Nº de Estudantes	Plano de Estudos	Anos Curriculares	Créditos UCN	Créditos ECTS	Horas de Contacto	Horas Totais
IPE	0	Plano de Estudos 2016/2017	1	-	3	30	81
TSPTB	22	Plano de Estudos_2015_16	1	-	3	30	81
TSPTSI	18	Plano de Estudos_2015_16	1	-	3	30	81

Docência - Responsabilidades

Docente	Responsabilidade
Elisabete Cristina Simões Lopes

Docência - Horas

Theorethical and Practical :

2,00

Type	Docente	Turmas	Horas
Theorethical and Practical	Totais	2	4,00
Theorethical and Practical	Ana Cristina Fontes Domingues Pereira		4,00

Língua de trabalho

English

Objetivos

The objective is to develop students’ knowledge of English in several areas, such as reading comprehension, writing, correct use of technical terms, grammar, fluency and personal interaction. Students will be acquainted with concepts and procedures used in the workplace, and will be able to apply technical language to specific contexts.

Resultados de aprendizagem e competências

Technical English aims at developing both soft skills and technical vocabulary acquisition within a professional framework.

Modo de trabalho

Presencial

Pré-requisitos (conhecimentos prévios) e co-requisitos (conhecimentos simultâneos)

Not applicable.

Programa

1. Diagnostic test
The aim is to assess the global level of English of the classroom, in order to overcome any difficulties presented by students.
2. Career management
3. English in the context of the new technologies
Reading comprehension of updated texts concerning new emerging technologies/innovation
Debate and discussion of these topics
4. English grammar revision
The revision of these several grammar issues will be done throughout the course: verb tenses, interrogatives, if clauses, passive voice, reported speech.
5. Technical English vocabulary /English for the workplace
Acquisition of specific technical vocabulary related to the area of the course.
6. Project
Development of a group work about a technical topic related to each specific course. (The maximum number of students per group should be 3).

Bibliografia Obrigatória

Esteras, Santiago Remacha.; Infotech, Canbridge UP, 2008. ISBN: 978-0521702997-0521702992
Sabrina Sopranzi; Flash on English for Mechanics and Electronics, ELI, 2016. ISBN: 885362180X -978-8853621801

Observações Bibliográficas

Resources taken from the Internet.

Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem

In the classroom students will be assigned a variety of activities that include:
-pair work
-reading comprehension
-technical vocabulary acquisition
- grammar practice
-fluency /communication
- listening and visualising videos
-brainstorming

Some of these pedagogical practices are based on active learning principles.

Tipo de avaliação

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Componentes de Avaliação

Designation	Peso (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Teste	60,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Componentes de Ocupação

Designation	Tempo (Horas)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,00
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho escrito	19,00
Total:	81,00

Obtenção de frequência

Students must attend at least 75% of the total class number.

Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final

- 2 evaluation tests (30%+30%) = 60%
- Project: group work concerning a technical topic related to the course = 40% (20% essay+ 20% PowerPoint presentation)

Important observations:

1- The Project must be written and discussed within the continuous assessment period. Therefore, project submission won't be allowed during the exam period.

2- In the final exam, the project will count 40% and the written exam will count 60% of the overall evaluation process.

Provas e trabalhos especiais

Not applicable.

Trabalho de estágio/projeto

Not applicable.

Avaliação especial (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Melhoria de classificação

Students can improve their final mark in Época de Recurso. This is an exam which requires previous enrollment at the Academic Division.

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