Through a variety of teaching materials, in-class activities and group work, the students further develop their:
- Academic Skills in English (EAP) and in Modern Greek, when necessary by carrying out:
- Advanced search in the Library and on the Internet for bibliographical references; assessment of the materials found;
- Advanced Search for electronic dictionaries and engines of machine translation, so that problems with difficult terminology will be overcome;
- Advanced Writing and Presentation Skills by:
- Making oral presentations; and
- Writing essays, where they learn how to paraphrase, rephrase and avoid plagiarism.
- Interlinguistic, “inter-scientific” and intercultural skills by:
- Comparing different styles of writing and presentation in Englishes around the globe (i.e. British and American English); and
- Comparing academic and professional skills in English and Modern Greek so that students enhance (and maximize) their interlinguistic, “inter-scientific” awareness and intercultural competence.
Learning outcomes: Through a variety of teaching materials, in-class activities, pair/group works and seminars, this course seeks to help students develop their academic and professional skills required for Social Anthropology and History students as described below.
- Academic Skills in English (EAP) and in Modern Greek, when necessary.
- Advanced Search in the Library and the Internet for bibliographical references; assessment of the materials found;
- Advanced Search for electronic dictionaries and engines of machine translation, so that problems with difficult terminology will be overcome;
- Advanced Writing and Presentation Skills:
Oral presentations;
Essay Writing;
Paraphrasing, rephrasing and issues of plagiarism;
Proof-reading and editing of essays (of past examinations);
- Different styles of writing and presentation in English (i.e. British and American English), so that students can develop intercultural competence in Englishes and World English.
- Possible comparison of academic and professional skills in English and Modern Greek so that students enhance (and maximise) their interlinguistic, “inter-scientific” awareness and intercultural competence.
General Competences:
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information (i.e. scientific terms) – through (printed or electronic) specialized scientific texts, using conventional media (e.g. Library) and the necessary technologies (e.g. Internet, electronic monolingual, bilingual and multilingual general and specialized dictionaries);
- Development of research skills in both English and Greek;
- Writing autonomous work (as summaries of English texts in both English and Greek) in the classroom; and
- Writing group work (as summaries of English texts in both English and Greek) in the classroom.
- The ultimate goal of English III (EAP) is to enable students to move between (at least) two different linguistic, cultural and scientific systems with ease and comfort – i.e. English to Greek and vice versa, when required (e.g. in Erasmus +, Erasmus Placement and International Conferences).
