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Russian Language in Audiology and Speech Therapy
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:11.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:52
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_050 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ludmila Jermakoviča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Proficiency level A2 of Russian language (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment). | ||||||||
| Objective: | To improve, develop and streamline students’ knowledge of Russian for communication, academic and professional purposes and to facilitate the acquisition of professional medical terminology for productive use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | My studies at the RSU. Studying medicine in Latvia – duration, study content, study subjects, residency. Overview of stressed and unstressed consonants and vowels, letter combination reading, affirmative and interrogative intonation. Sentence structure, question formation. Noun gender. Overview of plural, irregular plural. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Human body parts and organs, organ systems and their function. Correct pronunciation of anatomy terminology. Identifying noun number; comparison of Russian terminology with Latin and Greek terminology. Terminology explanation, formation of phrases. Overview of noun declension. Use of the genitive for expressing possession or parts of the whole. A reading task – ability to identify essential, new, familiar, interesting information. Overview of numerals, ordinal numbers. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Brain, ear, eye and their functions; nervous system and its main functions. Overview of verb conjugation in the present tense. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Speech apparatus, articulation, vowel and consonant pronunciation. The perfective and imperfective aspects of the verb; ability to use verbs in the perfective and imperfective aspects. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Speech and language disorders. The patient's speech and language status. Overview of adjective declension. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Anamnesis. Patient`s medical record form – personal details, complaints, pain, disease onset and course; making doctor-patient dialogues, asking about the onset and course of the disease. The imperative mood. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Internal and nervous system diseases; otorhinolaryngology, and childhood diseases; disease names. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Voice disoders – bradylalia, tahylalia; stammering. Overview of reflexive verbs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Sound pronunciation disoders – dislalia, alalia, aphasia. Noun locative case. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Reading and writing disorders – dislexia and disgraphia. Noun instrumental case. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Hearing and sight disorders. Correction programme, exercises. Overview of compound sentences, that-clauses. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Rehabilitation programme for adults who have suffered a stroke, head injury. Modality of obligation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Presentation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Home assignments to acquire medicine vocabulary; compiling their own terminological glossary; presentation preparation and delivery in the field of profession. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The course final assessment is cumulative, consisting of the exam result (50%), active participation in seminars including those given distantly, qualitatively done homework assignments, 2 tests (30%), and a presentation (20%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful course completion students will be able to: • recognise familiar medical terminology in different types of texts; • provide either Russian explanation or Latvian translation of the terms; • read a text related to medicine, find and highlight key words, the main idea, the necessary information in the text; • name the parts of the body, vocal apparatus parts, to describe speaking disorders; • describe patient speaking, hearing and sight condition; • recognise linguistic structures' characteristic of scientific and popular science literature (noun formation, cases; grammatical system of the verb in the Active and Passive Voice; The Subjunctive Mood, participle and the infinitive, etc.). | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon successful course completion students will be able to: • use appropriate medical terminology when interacting with patients/clients and colleagues; • make their own termininological dictionary; • find information related to patient anamnesis and ask questions concerning speaking and hearing disoders; • give advice, instructions to prevent speaking disorders; • explain home-based corrective exercises to parents and relatives. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to deliver information about themselves, their studies ; will be able to recognise patient's medical history; to perceive, write down, and deliver the necessary information related to a patient's condition; the ability to express own ideas, to support own opinion with arguments and discuss logopaedic exercises and methods. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Логопедия. Методическое наследие. Сборник в 5 книгах, 2006. Москва. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Krasnais, M., Pužule, V., Silakalne, G. Грамматика легко и просто. Krievu valodas gramatikas rokasgrāmata. 2014. Zvaigzne; ABC. | ||||||||
| 2 | Vārdnīca. 7 valodas biežāk lietotie vārdi un to izplatītākās nozīmes. 2003. Rīga; Avots. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.da.med.ru | ||||||||
| 2 | www.medicport.ru | ||||||||
| 3 | www.med.ru | ||||||||
| 4 | www.logoped.ru | ||||||||
