Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: English in engineering (17.EJEI)

Native organizations units: Department of Fundamentals Sciences

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Mechatronics (Godina: 2, Summer)

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Anglistika i jezik struke
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	2

Educational goal:

Introduction to the English for special purposes in engineering. Developing strategies for understanding foreign language texts. Developing the ability to read and comprehend original English texts related to various aspects of engineering. Developing the skills of oral and written communication related to these topics using adequate vocabulary and complex sentence structure.

Educational outcome:

Students acquire terminology related to science, engineering and their field of studying. They can understand the literature in their field and communicate in English on topic related to their field of expertise using sentence structure characteristics for their future profession.

Course content:

Reading texts in English related to various aspects in the field of engineering. Development of strategies for understanding scientific texts such as: skimming, scanning, using context. Acquiring most frequent terms related to engineering. Adopting language functions such as: comparison, classification, description purpose, component parts, cause and effect relations, etc. Most frequent prefixes, suffixes, compounds and collocations. Passive constructions, participles. Reduced relative clauses (active and passive), reduced time clauses (active and passive). Use of linking expressions and complex sentence structures.

Teaching methods:

The main focus is on students' activity during classes, their interaction with each other and teacher. Communicative method of language teaching is used. Exercises are prepared so that they facilitate the understanding of the text and practice the vocabulary and other characteristics of the language related to the profession. Some of the exercises are prepared so that they inspire students to practice their language skills by using their wider knowledge of the subject matter.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Grupa autora	Oxford English - Serbian Student Dictionary	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Glendinning, E.H., McEwan, J.	Oxford English for Information Technology	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Popić, R. i dr.	Naučno-tehnički rečnik : englesko-srpskohrvatski : 80.000 terminoloških jedinica	1989	Privredni pregled, Beograd	English
Eastwood, J.	Oxford Practice Grammar - Intermediate	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Glendinning, E., Glendinning, N.	Oxford English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering	2001	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English