Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA							2018_19
Subject	ENGLISH FOR ICT STUDIES					Code	00709005
Study programme	GRADO EN INGENIERÍA INFORMÁTICA
Descriptors	Credit.	Type	Year	Period
	6	Compulsory	First	First
Language	Ingles
Prerequisites
Department	FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Coordinador	GÓMEZ CASTRO , CRISTINA				E-mail	cgomc@unileon.es mperb@unileon.es
Lecturers	GÓMEZ CASTRO , CRISTINA PÉREZ BLANCO , MARÍA
Web	http://agora.es
General description	This ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course focuses on the cognitive functions most commonly used in technical English, i.e. classifying, defining, describing, giving instructions and expressing conditions and hypotheses. Students will be exposed to a wide range of ICT texts and explanations of the most important textual, grammatical and terminological conventions will be provided. By the end of the course students should be able to understand what they read and listen to and they should be able to speak and write about topics related to their field.
Tribunales de Revisión	Tribunal titular Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente FILOLOGIA MODERNA GUZMAN GONZALEZ , TRINIDAD Secretario FILOLOGIA MODERNA RODRIGUEZ DE LERA , JUAN RAMON Vocal FILOLOGIA MODERNA RAMON GARCIA , NOELIA Tribunal suplente Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente FILOLOGIA MODERNA MORENO FERNANDEZ , ANA ISABEL Secretario FILOLOGIA MODERNA GUTIERREZ LANZA , MARIA DEL CAMINO Vocal FILOLOGIA MODERNA DIAZ MARTINEZ , MARIO

Competencias

Code
A8387
A8463
A8480
A8576
A8622
B950
C4
C5

Learning aims

	Competences
	A8387 A8463 A8576
	A8622	B950	C4
	A8387 A8480		C5

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic

Planning

Methodologies  ::  Tests
	Class hours	Hours outside the classroom	Total hours
Lecture	24	20	44
Problem solving, classroom exercises	26	40	66
Personal tuition	1	0	1
Mixed tests	9	30	39
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies

Methodologies   ::  

	Description
Lecture
Problem solving, classroom exercises
Personal tuition

Personalized attention

Personal tuition

Description

Assessment

	Description	Qualification
Lecture		80%
Problem solving, classroom exercises		20%
Other comments and second call

Sources of information

Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE

Basic	Santiago Remacha Esteras , Infotech. English for Computer Users, Cambridge. Professional English, Cambridge, 2008
Complementary	Eric H. Glendinning and John Mc Ewan, Basic English for Computing, Oxford University Press, 2000 Virginia Evans Jenny Dooley Will Kennedy, Career Paths: Computing, Express Publishing, Virginia Evans, Jenny Dooley, Stanley Wright, Career Paths: Information Technology, Express Publishing , Patrick Fitzgerald, Marie McCullagh & Carol Tabor , English for ICT Studies in Higher Education Studies, Garnet Education, 2011 Keith Boeckner and P.Charles Brown, Oxford English for Computing, Oxford University Press , 1997 Santiago Remacha Esteras and Elena Marco Fabré, Professional English in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2007

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