Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: English in traffic and transportation (17.EJSIT)

Native organizations units: Department of Fundamentals Sciences

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Traffic and Transport Engineering (Godina: 4, Winter)

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 the various sources related to the specific aspects of traffic engineering. Developing oral and written communication related to these topics, using adequate vocabulary and more complex sentence structures.

Educational outcome:

Students possess a wide range of terminology related to their field of studies. They can follow various literature from the field, and communicate on professional topics in the English language using the terms and sentences characteristic for the language of their future profession.

Course content:

Processing contemporary professional texts in the English language related to diverse aspects in the field of traffic engineering. Developing strategies for understanding a professional text, such as: skimming, scanning, comparing sources, using context, using background knowledge etc. Mastering the 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. Passive, participles. Reduced relative classes (active and passive), reduced time clauses (active and passive). Use of linking expressions.

Teaching methods:

Emphasis is on students` activity during the class, their interaction with the teacher and among themselves. Communicative approach is used in the foreign language teaching. Exercises are created in order to simplify and evaluate the understanding of texts, as well as to practice certain vocabulary and other characteristic ESP properties. Some exercises are created to inspire students to additionally practice their language skills using the greater knowledge of their studying field.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Popić, R. i dr.	Naučno-tehnički rečnik : englesko-srpskohrvatski : 80.000 terminoloških jedinica	1989	Privredni pregled, Beograd	English
Fišer-Popović, A.	Engleski jezik : za studente Saobraćajnog fakulteta	1993	Saobraćajni fakultet, Beograd	English
Grupa autora	Oxford English - Serbian Students Dictionary	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Dimković Telebaković, G.	English in Transport and Traffic Engineering	2004	Saobraćajni fakultet, Beograd	English
Glendinning, E.H., McEwan, J.	Oxford English for Electronics	1993	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English