Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: English for Special Purposes (17.EJCET1)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Clean Energy Technologies (Year: 2, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Anglistika i jezik struke
ECTS	2

The aim of the curriculum for ESP for Clean Energy Technologies is reflected in the development of reading skills and understanding of professional contents, finding relevant information, writing summaries, development of oral communication within the profession, as well as preparing presentations for the purpose of future professions. In short, students acquire the basic terminology of Clean Energy Technologies and grammatical structures of technical English.

Students will learn the basic language skills that include: a) reading and understanding professional articles, b) listening and understanding oral presentations, c) writing short forms ( letters, reports , summaries, compositions ) d) dialogue / information sharing / discussion, with the expression of opinions, attitudes or viewpoints using appropriate phrases and expressions, collocations, etc. . They will be able to identify adequate grammatical structures and recognize meanings of new lexical items. In other words, students will be able to classify, systematize and summarize key information from the text owing to the knowledge of grammar structures and vocabulary, which will enable them to use technical literature in English.

Reading and analyzing authentic texts from the aspect of specific technical terminology and grammar structures. Terminology is associated with different topics from clean energy tehnologies area: Renewable Energy Sources, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Bio-fuels Basics, Geothermal Energy, Tidal Energy, Ethical Issues. Grammar is focusing on the following areas: 1) Determining the forms and uses of basic tenses in technical discourse: Tenses - Present (Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous) Past (Simple, Continuous, Perfect), Future (all ways of expressing the future). 2) Practicing asking questions. 3) Analyzing and practicing passive structures in technical discourse. 4) Contrasting active and passive sentences in English. 5) Contrasting the use of passive forms in the English and Serbian language. 6) Conditional sentences (Zero Conditional, First Conditional, Second Conditional), Phrasal verbs (Phrasal verbs).

Teaching ESP for Clean Energy Technologies is based on the fundamental principles of interactive teaching , as well as methods to encourage students to become independent learners. a) Teaching methods: interactive methods in accordance with the communicative approach , PBL and CSA methods with the aim of transferring activities from teacher to student. b) Forms of work : lectures , consultations. c) Aspects of work : team / doubles / individual. d) Teaching techniques : classification, categorization, systematization of knowledge and information.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Popić, R. i dr.	Naučno-tehnički rečnik : englesko-srpskohrvatski : 80.000 terminoloških jedinica	1989	Privredni pregled, Beograd	English
Katić, M.	English for Environmental Engineering	2013	Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Novi Sad	English