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English in Rehabilitation
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:31.08.2021 17:06:05
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_079 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Tatjana Zakutajeva | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Language Centre | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Rīga, Dzirciema iela 16, valodas rsu[pnkts]lv, valodasrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061586 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge of the English language at secondary school level. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop students’ communication skills for use in academic and professional settings and to facilitate the acquisition of professional terminology for productive use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Effective Communication. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Medical Breakthroughs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Human Body: Organs and Systems. Test. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | In and around the Hospital and the Hospital Team. Hospital Admissions. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Signs and Systems. Pain Assessment Scales and Pain Management. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Animal-assisted Therapy. Music Therapy. Dance Therapy. Art Therapy. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Occupational Therapy Case Presentations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Nutrition, Obesity and Healthy Lifestyle. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Instructions and Procedures. Physical and Mental State Examination. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Caring for the Elderly. Special Equipment and Home Modifications. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Parents and Young Children. Infectious Diseases. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Stroke Patients. ADL (Activities of Daily Living) Index. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Caring for Patients with Mental Disorders. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Dealing with Medication. Filling in blank forms with information on the patient. Test. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Ocupational Therapy Case Presentations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual and pair work: preparing a presentation on one of the course topics; work with monolingual dictionaries (definitions/explanations of the terms); writing summaries and e-mails according to the given principles. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active class participation; written homework of appropriate quality, submitted in due time, the quality of oral answers. Tests that check terminology acquisition and its practical application. One presentation per semester on the topics of the course. In presentation, students demonstrate their speaking skills and general understanding: prepared monologue (summarising information, expressing opinion), and dialogue (asking/answering questions). At the end of the course a written examination that checks knowledge and practical application of terminology, general comprehension and understanding of specific information, and the use of language. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to: recognise professional terminology in different types of texts; recall professional terminology related to the field of occupational therapy; describe different phenomena in the field of occupational therapy, using professional terminology in English. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to: select and use appropriate terminology in English for oral communication (presentations, discussions) and written communication (doctor's records, letters of referral, medical article annotations) in the the field of occiupational therapy; use appropriate language devices to communicate their ideas both in written and spoken language; summarise the information from any kind of source in written and spoken language using relevant terminology in English; retell the general idea and specific information in different kinds of texts from varied types of sources. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to practically apply the acquired terminology in varied interaction settings. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Medicine, Sam McCarter, Oxford University Press, 2013. | ||||||||
| 2 | Nursing, Tony Grice, Oxford University Press, 2013. | ||||||||
| 3 | Cambridge English for Nursing, Virginia Allum, Patricija McGarr, Cambridge University Press, 2008. | ||||||||
| 4 | Professional English in Use. Medicine, Eric H. Glendinning, Ron Howard, Cambridge University Press, 2007. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary. E. Martin, Oxford University Press, 2008. | ||||||||
| 2 | Oxford Practice Grammar, John Eastwood, Oxford University Press, 2006. | ||||||||
| 3 | Occupational therapy: principles and practice, A. J. Punwar, S. M. Peloquin, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2000. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.oup.com/elt | ||||||||
| 2 | www.answers.com | ||||||||
| 3 | The British Journal of Occupational Therapy | ||||||||
