A 3-YEAR PROGRAM
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These courses are designed to improve English language skills and to teach linguistic autonomy in order to prepare students to work with technical and scientific English in an international or in an intercultural context.
Each student is required to participate in both General and Scientific English classes. The courses take place in level groups established at the beginning of the year on the basis of both a placement test and oral evaluations. For the most advanced students (bilingual or C2 according to CECRL) it is possible to replace the classroom courses with research work supervised by a teacher from the Department. Low-level students can attend one-to-one tutoring sessions.
The classroom courses are complemented by an adapted and varied “e-learning” (the Yesmag application which aims to facilitate reading texts in their original versions; multiple linguistic activities on Moodle; self-study in the language lab).
General English courses are to master:
– speaking skills: presentations, debates, discussions on cultural topics specific to Anglo-Saxon countries,
– listening and comprehension of TV or radio news,
– synthesis and comparison of authentic documents from the current press,
– CV writing,
– role-playing in professional situations (negotiations, telephone conversations, job interviews),
– analysis of business cases with reference to authentic documents.
Scientific English courses are to:
– work on technical and scientific vocabulary,
– master writing reports, articles, essays,
– practice oral communication on technical, scientific and social subjects,
– discuss scientific articles.
Individual and group project work will also be proposed.