Course Details
English Language Tutorial for PhD Students
Academic Year 2024/25
DYA004 course is part of 4 study plans
DKA-GK Winter Semester 1st year
DPA-GK Winter Semester 1st year
DKC-GK Winter Semester 1st year
DPC-GK Winter 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
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
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.
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)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
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.