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3 (% style="color:#000080" %)**Foreign Language 1 -**(% style="color:#000080; letter-spacing:0.0px" %)**English- Scientific Communication**
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7 **ECTS**
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11 **SEMESTER**
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38 **Language used**
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40 English
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49 [[image:url:https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/kMofEFLjobZy_bCuaiDogzBcUT-dz3BBbOrIEjJ-hqOabjK8ieuevGe6wlTD15QzOqw||width="16" class="KAlRDb n3VNCb"]][[image:attach:index.png||thumbnail="true" width="16"]] Petra Norroy [[petra.norroy@mines-nancy.univ-lorraine.fr>>mailto:petra.norroy@mines-nancy.univ-lorraine.fr||shape="rect"]]
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53 **Key words**
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55 (% style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none" %)fluency, reports, abstracts, presentations
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58 **Prerequisites**
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60 (% style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none" %)Minimum CEFR level B2
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63 **Overall objective**
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66 The main objective of the course is to increase the student's awareness of relevant aspects of academic English in order to improve the effectiveness of their oral and written expression. We will be focusing on academic presentations and the structure of problem – solution written essays.
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69 **Course content and organisation**
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72 **Presentation skills**
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74 * Presenting visual information and slide design.
75 * Describing change – verbs of change, facts & figures.
76 * Story telling as an introduction technique to capture an audience’s attention.
77 * The importance of body language – functional gesturing.
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79 **Academic writing skills**
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81 * Features of academic English.
82 * Referencing – why, when and how – the mechanics of referencing, verbs of reference.
83 * Problem – solution essay structure.
84 * Abstracts and introductions – what to include.
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86 **Themes**
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88 We will be looking at the following themes (non-exhaustive list):-
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90 Achieving sustainability – energy mix, energy transition, water, population
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92 Existential threats to civilisation – AI, economic collapse, nuclear war, climate change
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94 **Assessment**
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96 * A three-minute thesis style presentation of a problem linked to sustainability and how the students (future) field of study could address the problem.
97 * An abstract based on student project work.
98 * An assessed scientific seminar.
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100 Considerable input is required of the student. While level of English is __not__ a deciding factor, motivation and commitment are of the utmost importance when choosing this module.
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103 **Skills**
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108 (% style="color:#0070c0" %)**Description and operational verbs**
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111 **Know**
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113 (% style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none" %)Know the various techniques necessary to render a presentation lively and interesting, formal professional English, technical English syntax and the structure of a scientific report.
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118 (% style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none" %)Understand the specific communication techniques used by efficient public speakers, differentiate between written academic and technical English.
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123 (% style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none" %)Write reports, perform presentations on technical subjects, write an abstract.
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128 (% style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none" %)Analyse the structures and skills necessary to perform a successful presentation and write a convincing scientific report.
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138 (% style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none" %)Estimate the quality of his/her own communication and the communication of others in order to improve and perfect the necessary skills.
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141 (% class="kYiyGk sc-14kwckt-9" %)**Compliance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals**
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322 The teaching of modern languages and their respective cultures through the study of various topics and via different media contributes towards the development of mindsets that are indispensable in order to reach these objectives.
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