Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: English language - ESP (17.EJM)

Native organizations units: Department of Fundamentals Sciences

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Production Engineering (Godina: 2, Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Technical Mechanics and Technical Design (Godina: 2, Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Mechanization and Construction Engineering (Godina: 1, Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Energy and Process Engineering (Godina: 1, Summer)

General information:

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

Educational goal:

Mastering the most important terminology related to profession. Developing strategies for understanding texts in a foreign language. Enabling students for reading and understanding the original English texts from various sources related to the specific aspects of graphic engineering and design. Developing oral and written communication related to these topics, using adequate vocabulary and more complex sentence structures.

Educational outcome:

Mastering the most important terminology related to profession. Developing communication strategies for understanding the professional text. Enabling students to read and understand original English texts from diverse sources related to certain aspects of science and technology. Developing oral and written communication using adequate vocabulary and complex sentence structures. Students can read diverse literature in this area and they can discuss professional topics in and English language using terminology and sentence structure characteristic for their future profession.

Course content:

Processing contemporary professional texts in the English language related to diverse aspects in their field of studying. Developing strategies for understanding a professional text. Mastering fundamental and most used terms related to profession. Adopting language functions, such as: comparison, classification, expressing purpose or function, describing components, causal relations, etc. Most common prefixes, suffixes, compounds and collocations. Passives, participles. Reduced relative clauses (active and passive), reduced time clauses (active and passive).

Teaching methods:

Communicative approach is used since goals and content are communication-related, which is very complex. This method equally develops written and oral skills. Students relate the information from the texts to their own experience and knowledge obtained from other courses. New vocabulary is adopted and practiced using oral and written exercises. Knowledge on certain grammar topics is repeated and expanded. Students are encouraged to communicate in English as much as possible during the organized class segments or in groups.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Comfort, J., Hick, S., Savage, A.	Basic Technical English	2002	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Ashley, A.	Oxford Correspondence Workbook	2003	Oxford University Press	English
Glendinning, E.H., McEwan, J.	Oxford English for Electronics	1993	Oxford University Press	English
Glendinning, E., Glendinning, N.	Oxford English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Oxford English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering : Answer book with teaching notes	1995	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
Evans, V., Dooley, J., Revels, J.	Career Paths, Book 1-3	2012	Express Publishing	English