Course Details

English Language Tutorial for PhD Students

Academic Year 2023/24

DYA004 course is part of 20 study plans

​ DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-E Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-E Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-E Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-S Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-M Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKA-E Summer Semester 1st year

The subject comprises six tutorials. Students read English scientific literature connected with their research. It can be a book, its part or a set of papers. The text should be 120-150 pages long. Students chose texts whose topic is useful for their research. The tutor approves of the texts. Students hand in 10-20 key terms with their translation and its source. Student also hand in a written summary of the text(s). It should be approx. one page long.

Credits

1 credit

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Veronika Rodriguezová

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Students must have a command of general English higher than the level of CEFR, and they must have completed the DY02 course.

Aims

Mastering the vocabulary of the field and the basic regularities of technical translation.
Knowledge of a certain amount of the technical vocabulary of the respective field and the grammatical features characteristic of the professional language style.

Basic Literature

odborná cizojazyčná publikace vybraná doktorandem a odsouhlasená vyučujícím i školitelem (en)

Recommended Reading

ŠTĚPÁNEK, Libor a Janice de HAAFF. Akademická angličtina: Academic English : průvodce anglickým jazykem pro studenty, akademiky a vědce. 2. aktualizované vydání. Praha: Grada, 2018. ISBN 978-80-271-0842-8 (en)

Prerequisites

Students must have a command of general English higher than the level of CEFR, and they must have completed the DY02 course.

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/271715

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. The tutor approves of the text(s) chosen by the student for reading and recommends useful dictionaries containing civil engineering English.
2. Consulting language problems.
3. Consulting language problems.
4. Consulting language problems.
5. Consulting language problems.
6. Consulting the key terms list and the written summary of the reading.