Course Details

English Language Tutorial for PhD Students

Academic Year 2023/24

DYA004 course is part of 24 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

DPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year

DPA-GK Winter Semester 1st year

DKC-GK Winter Semester 1st year

DKA-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.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Mastering the vocabulary of the field and the basic regularities of technical translation.

Knowledge

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

Prerequisites

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

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

1 credit

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

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

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.