Virtual Language Course: Mediating Specialised Discourse in English (Domain: Marine Sciences)

The University of Algarve is pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming Virtual language course titled “Mediating Specialised Discourse in English (Domain: Marine Sciences)”, offered during the 2024/2025 academic year.

Course Aims:

The course will focus mainly on communication in academic context.  By the end of this course, participants should be able to activate discourse and language use strategies to mediate specialised vocabulary/terminology and phraseology, within the domain of marine sciences, according to audience and purpose. The focus (of this 30-hour course) is on Amplifying strategies to clarify meaning and facilitate understanding.

Course Details:

• Target group: students, professors, technical and administrative staff
• Language taught: English
• Workload: 30 hours
• Methodology: Participant/content-centred learning approach. Communicative language activities: reception, mediation interaction, production.
• Prerequisites: B1 level CEFR

Key Information:

• Start and End Date: 6th January 2025 – 31st January 2025
• Class Schedule: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays from 9:30 to 12:00 (CET)
• Registration Deadline: 22nd November 2024
• Course Director: Professor Manuel Célio Conceição; Contact: mconcei@ualg.pt
• Registration Link: Sea Eu – Mediating Specialised Discourse in English – Marine sciences | Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais

Specific Learning Outcomes:

• Reformulating through paraphrasing and use of synonyms
• Explaining (breaking down) terminology by providing examples and definitions accessible to audience and purpose
• Illustrating by making comparisons, metaphors and/or analogies
• Adapting delivery (use of language, style and/or register in order to incorporate the content of a text into a new text of a different genre and register

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the Course Director.