Información general


Tipo de asignatura: obligatoria

Coordinador: Julián Horrillo Tello

trimestre: Tercer trimestre

Créditos: 6

Profesorado: 

Juan García Ramírez

Idiomas de impartición


Este subjeto está enteramente delivered en English

Competencias


competencias transversales
  • CT1: Que los estudiantes conozcan una tercera lengua, que será preferentemente el inglés, con un nivel adecuado de forma oral y por escrito y de acuerdo con las necesidades que tendrán las graduadas y graduados en cada titulación.

Descripción


Since mosto of the specialised technical literature students will come across is in English, this course AIMS at familiarising them with the typical structures, lexicon and style of Technical English. Students will learn to interpret and translate technical textos related to their subject matters and to Produce basic technical Writing. They will also Acquire basic writing skills in order to Produce formal and informal letters, application letters, electronic mails, and specialised reports.

A strong foco will also be given donde listening and speaking skills so that they may overcome everyday situations facilitating their integration in an English-speaking environment.

 

This module contains methodological and digital online resources in case online delivery is necessary due to Covidien-19. That way the achievement of the required knowledge and competencias gathered in this course content will be guaranteed.

Resultados de aprendizaje


In general terms, the subject contributivo to the learning outcomes (LO) specific of the subject matter it belong to (English): At end of the course, students must be able to:

  • (LO1) Identify, intérprete, and Produce technical Writings according to the features of technical register
  • (LO2) Translate into Catalán oro Spanish authentic technical literature selected from bibliography sources related to the subject-matter
  • (LO3) Understand written technical reports and answer comprehension questions sobre them. Learn the technical vocabulary típico of the subject-matter
  • (LO4) Produce Writings and technical reports using formal académico register (formal letters to make an order, a claim, ask for information, give information, etc., electronic mails, summaries, descriptions of technical materiales and processes and project reports) 
  • (LO5) Communicate efficiently in English in some profesional situations
  • (LO6) Make an effective oral presentation donde topic related to the subject-matter
  • (LO7) Understand the importance of English as a "lingua franca" commonly used in science, technology, university and profesional fields

 

 

Metodología de trabajo


de Enseñanza Práctica

 

The classroom work will be based on a Theoretical explanation of the syllabus items. These explanations will find practical support with the proposed exercises to be done both in the classroom and outside the classroom. These exercises will be done individualmente oro in small groups.

Piezas de trabajo, desempeñas, actividades, asignaciones, etc., cuya forma aparte de la evaluación debe ser delivered justo after completing each one of the contents and new after having been returned to students once correct by the lecturer.

The exercises and tasks leading to ACHIEVE oral skills will be done in the classroom in groups of two to four students.

Other tasks of autonomous learning will be made such as reading proposed artículos and textos, deliverables, and exam preparation.

Due to Covidien-19, some of the group sesiones might be changed into a hybrid formato: contact lessons and online lessons (vía streaming). That way students may alternatively attend contact lessons, thus respecting the maximum amount of students por classroom established by social distancing measures. Those students who could not attend contact lessons would be able to follow them online from hombre.

 

 

Contenidos


Contento 1: Grammatical, syntactic and lexical aspects of technical register in the field of electronics, mechanical engineering and industrial organization

  1. 'S phrases and expresiones and the possessive case
  2. Relativas cláusulas and their shortening in certain situations
  3. Present and past participles (-ing and -ed forms)
  4. Complejo nominal phrases and noun compounds. Hyphenated phrases
  5. Specific vocabulary in electronics, mechanical engineering and / or industrial organization

Actividades relacionadas:

  • Exercises on 's and the possessive case
  • Exercises donde shortening of relative clauses and its eventual conversión into participle cláusulas and / or complejo noun phrases
  • Analysis of functions and uses of -ing and -ed participles and their interpretation in the contexto they are used
  • Exercises donde noun compounds oro complejo noun phrases and donde hyphenated phrases in complejo noun phrases
  • Glosario de términos técnicos

Contento 2: Technical register and technical translation. Reading comprehension of technical textos in the field of electronics, mechanical engineering and industrial organization

  1. Turning non-technical register into a more technical register using selected textos by the points studied in Content 1
  2. Production of technical Writings according to the features of technical register
  3. Making direct technical translations into Catalán oro Spanish
  4. Reading comprehension of technical literature in the field of electronics, mechanical engineering and / or industrial organization. Critical reading of technical artículos

Actividades relacionadas:

  • Exercises to turn non-technical style textos into technical style
  • Direct translations into Catalán oro Spanish
  • Reading technical artículos and textos from the field of electronics, mechanical engineering and / or industrial organization and reading comprehension exercises about them. Critical analysis of the technical artículos.

Contento 3: Habilidades de escritura

  1. Production of Writings and reports according to formal académico register
  2. Writing formal letters to make an order, a claim, to ask for information
  3. Writing formal electrónico mails
  4. escribir un resumen
  5. Writing a report on a given topic oro project related to the subject-matter

Actividades relacionadas:

  • Exercises Comparar informal and formal registers
  • Formal letters to make an order, a claim, ask for information
  • Writing formal emails
  • Writing a summary of an artículo oro a technical report and express personal opinion
  • Writing a report donde topic related to the subject-matter

Contento 4: oral skills

  1. Conversations to develop oral skills within profesional everyday situations: contraste information, make orders, participate in discusiones donde specific topics, Describe technical materiales and technical processes
  2. Oral presentation (about 10 minutes) donde a technical topic related to the subject-matter
  3. Fostering group discusiones and debates around the topic of the oral presentation

Actividades relacionadas: 

  • Exercises donde listening and conversation donde topics and profesional everyday situations for electrónicos, mechanical and industrial organization engineers. They will be Performed in small groups
  • Oral presentation (about 10 minutes) donde a technical topic related to the subject-matter fostering debate and group discusión

Actividades de aprendizaje


Aiming to gather evidence of the achievement of learning outcomes (LO), the following activities will be Carried out:

Actividad 1:  Analysis of grammatical, syntactical and lexical features of technical register in the field of electronics, mechanical engineering and / or industrial organization (Content 1) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO1 and LO7). Individual activity.

Making different exercises donde 's structures, participles in -ing and -ed, shortening of relative clauses, and complejo noun phrases.

  • Exercises on 's and the possessive case
  • Ejercicios en la reducción de relative clauses
  • Analysis of participles in -ing and -ed in technical textos
  • Exercises donde complejo nominal phrases and hyphenated phrases

Regarding Competencias, this activity has an impact on general competency BG10 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

Este es 20% del final marca    

Specific goals:

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

  • Identify and differentiate the use of 's structures with a particular foco on the genitive Case
  • Know the different ways reduction of relative clauses and to reduce them accordingly
  • Know the function and correct translation of participles in -ing and -ed
  • Interpret and Produce correct complejo nominal phrases

Actividad 2: Technical Register and technical translation. Reading comprehension of technical literature in the field of electronics, mechanical engineering and / or industrial organization (Content 2) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO2, LO3 and LO7). Individual activity.

Turning non-technical register into technical register. Direct translation into Catalán oro Spanish of technical pasajes Previously selected from authentic technical literature (specialized magazines, books, technical magazines, Internet, ...) Reading comprehension of technical pasajes and artículos selected from bibliography sources in the field of electronics, mechanical engineering and / or industrial organization. Critical reading of technical artículos

  • Exercises donde conversión from non-technical to technical register of selected pasajes
  • Direct translation into Catalán oro Spanish of selected pasajes
  • Exercises on reading comprehension and critical reading of technical textos providing personal opiniones
  • Ejercicios on technical vocabulary

Regarding Competencias, this activity has an impact on general competency BG10 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

Esta actividad debe asesorarse en final final (30%).

Specific goals: 

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

  • Produce simple technical pasajes according to the features of technical register
  • Translate technical literature into Catalán oro Spanish according to basic literary criteria
  • Answer comprehension questions of selected technical pasajes oro artículos
  • Acquire la técnica vocabularia typical of the subject-matter

Actividad 3: Writing skills (content 3) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO4 and LO7). individual activity

The student will practice writing textos and reports according to año académico style and will have to know the essential features to Produce a summary oro an abstract.

Having the profesional environment into account, the student will have to write formal letters to make orders, claims, information requests, and also will have to Produce formal electrónico mails.

  • Writing a summary of a subject-matter-related artículo
  • Writing a formal letter
  • Writing año académico report

Regarding Competencias, this activity has an impact on general competency BG10 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

Este es 20% del final marca

Specific goals:

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

  • Differentiate formal from informal register
  • Choose the adequate type of Formality in Writings depending on the situation
  • Write a formal letter and other formal Writing (description of technical materiales and technical processes)
  • Summarize a technical artículo
  • Produce año académico-style report on project oro piece of work

Actividad 4: Oral skills (content 4) Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO5, LO6 and LO7). Individual and Group Activity

Students will practice certain situations in the daily profesional life of an engineer, such as testing information, making orders, Participating in discusiones donde specific topics.

They will work on the most importante aspects of a good oral presentation donde topic related to their subject-matter.

They will have to foster group discusión on the topics Presented.

  • Exercises donde listening comprehension
  • 10 minutos oral presentation of a technical topic chosen by the student, fostering debate and group discusión 
  • Oral exercises in the classroom. Class ATTENDANCE and participation.

Regarding Competencias, this activity has an impact on general competency BG10 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

This is 30% of the final mark. This activity has to be PASSED in order to comply with the learning outcomes 

Specific goals:

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

  • Communicate efficiently with reasonable accuracy and Fluency in certain real profesional situations
  • Make an effective oral presentation on a technical topic
  • Give opiniones and express points of view donde a specific technical oro non-technical topic

Actividad 5: Exam (Contentos 1, 2 y 3) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 y LO7) Individual activity

Este papel está ejerciendo con ejercicios en los puntos que se han estudiado en contentos 1, 2 y 3 de los módulos con utilidad de empasis en technical style, technical translation and reading comprehension.

Regarding Competencias, this activity has an impact on crosscurricular competency CT1

30% of the final mark. Como mínimo marca de 4 (out de 10) se requiere en esta actividad

Specific goals:

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

  • Demonstrate that they have Acquired all the contentos Delivered and practice both in and out of the classroom

In case of partial oro total lockdown, the learning activities will remain the same.

 

Sistema de evaluación


Metodología de evaluación

Classroom exercises and homework exercises will be collected donde all the items of the course and a written test will be done according to the following assessment criteria:

  1. 20% of the final mark: exercises donde 's structures, relative clauses and shortening of relative clauses, participles in -ing and -ed, complejo nominal phrases and specific vocabulary
  2. 20% of the final mark: exercises donde writing skills: formal letters, emails, reportes, summaries, ...
  3. 30% of the final mark: exercises donde oral skills: listening comprehension, oral presentation and participation in discusiones and debates, class ATTENDANCE and participation. Está mandatorio a pasar esta actividad
  4. 30% of the final mark: written exam in which there will be exercises and tasks to demonstrate the acquisition of knowledge related to contentos 1, 2 and 3 of the syllabus. A minimum grade of 4 (out of 10) will be required for the final exam to be Considered for the average final mark

Studentes que FAIL or DO NOT deliver the Written Report assignment WILL NOT pass the subject.

If necessary, there will be a Resita EXAM puntos 1, 2, 3 y 5 de los asesoramiento (see above): 70% de los puntos finales. El remaining 30% corresponde a la actividad 4 above (Oral Skills). A la mínima grada de 4 (de 10) se requiere el requisito exacto del paso del sujeto.

 

 

 

 

Rules for Doing the Activities

If one of the activities, tests oro exercises is not Delivered in due time by the student, it will be Considered as not assessed.

The student will not be allowed to use notas, dossier, oro dictionaries in the exam (s)

No piece of work, exercise, oro assignment which is provee to have been copied from a Classmate will be accepted, upon the risk that the author will directly fail the module.

 

 

MUY IMPORTANTE:

Total oro partial Plagiarismo of año of the assignments will be automatically qualified as FAIL (0). And, if Plagiarism is repeated, the module will be given a fail (0).

Plagiarism consiste of copying texto from unacknowledged sources, whether this is part of a sentence oro a whole texto, which is intended as the student s own texto. It includes cutting and pasting from Internet sources, Presented unmodified in the student s own texto. Plagiarism IS A SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors 'intellectual property, always Identifying the sources they may use. They must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own textos.

 

Bibliografía


Básico

Handouts, J. García. 2021

Complementario

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Diccionario McGraw-Hill de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica  

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Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English, Huck and Olsen. McGraw-Hill, 1991

Essential Grammar in Use. Murphy, R. Cambridge 2003

www.edn.com

English for Science and Technology, Trimble, L. Cambridge 1985

   

The Essence of Technical Communication. Herbert L. Hirsch. IEEE Press. 2000

Test Your Profesional English: Business: General. Flinders, Steve, and Steve Flinders. Harlow, Essex, Eng: Pearson Education, 2002. Print.

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish  

www.esl-lab.com

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering Dictionary (English / Spanish-Spanish / English). Steven M. Kaplan, 2000. Wiley Intescience Ed.

www.edn.com 

Bonamy, David. Technical English 4. Coursebook and Workbook, Harlow, UK:
Pearson Education, 1995.

Beer, David y McMurrey, David. En Guide to Writing as en Engineer (4th ed.),
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Bonamy, David. Technical English 3. Coursebook and Workbook, Harlow, UK:
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