Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: English language - ESP course 1 (17.F320)

Native organizations units: Department of Fundamentals Sciences

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Graphic Engineering and Design (Year: 2, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Anglistika i jezik struke
ECTS	3

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 graphic engineering and design. Developing oral and written communication related to these topics, using adequate vocabulary and more complex sentence structures

Students possess certain terminology related to the science, technology and 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.

Processing contemporary professional texts in the English language related to diverse aspects in the field of graphic engineering and design. Developing strategies for understanding a professional text, such as: skimming, scanning, comparing sources, using context, using background knowledge etc. Mastering 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.

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.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Popić, R. i dr.	Naučno-tehnički rečnik : englesko-srpskohrvatski : 80.000 terminoloških jedinica	1989	Privredni pregled, Beograd	English
Bogdanović, V., Mirović, I.	Engleski jezik 1 : za grafičko inženjerstvo i dizajn	2007	Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Novi Sad	English