English for your Career - 4EMAENG8

Goal(s)

This course is designed to help students do the following:

• communicate with ease in a number of professional situations, adapting their language, register and style to the context.
• improve their written communication skills. Students should demonstrate an ability to organise and structure their ideas in order to communicate efficiently in various professional tasks.
• improve their skills as critical readers and thinkers.
• develop intercultural awareness and acquire better understanding of the international professional context.

Content(s)

In this course students are given opportunities to USE English in a variety of useful situations to help them carry on improving their fluency in English, their communication skills and their intercultural competence in order to achieve their academic and professional goals. Students are asked to do several practical tasks, including telephoning, writing a CV, being interviewed, presenting, researching, chairing a meeting, writing minutes, e-mailing, writing an abstract, reviewing, all of which should help prepare them for professional life in an international environment.

The various tasks proposed will explore the following professional contexts and topics:

• Developing professional intercultural awareness and understanding
• Looking for a job - replying to a job offer, being interviewed, communicating about one's professional projects
• Giving a motivational speech
• Attending meetings
• Communicating about one's science project:
  ° abstract writing
  ° poster session presentation
  ° video

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