Course Details

English Language Tutorial for PhD Students

Academic Year 2024/25

DY02 course is part of 6 study plans

D-K-C-SI (N) / VHS Summer Semester 1st year

D-K-C-SI (N) / MGS Summer Semester 1st year

D-K-C-SI (N) / PST Summer Semester 1st year

D-K-C-SI (N) / FMI Summer Semester 1st year

D-K-C-SI (N) / KDS Summer Semester 1st year

D-K-E-SI (N) / PST 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

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.

Basic Literature

odborná cizojazyčná publikace vybraná doktorandem a odsouhlasená školitelem pro cizí jazyk.

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.