UPPVJP011 Specialized Foreign Language 1

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/13/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: PhDr. Edita Ondřejová, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA ( FVP ) && TYP_STUDIA ( B ) && FORMA ( P )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims to enhance students’ ability to actively, steadily and properly express themselves in everyday situations and situations connected with the profession. It improves the ability to understand written documents in relevant areas, leading students to actively use the English language and develop their translation skills. Conversations in the course contributes not only to expanding competence in international communication based on the awareness of terminologically lexical, grammatical and stylistic context.
Learning outcomes
Professional knowledge: Students can explain professional English terminology in topical areas as covered in the seminars. They can explain the characteristics of technical language in their field. They have the necessary grammatical knowledge and stylistic rules and they can practically use it.

Professional skills: Students can apply lexical and grammatical knowledge of the respective world language in spoken and written expression. They understand specialist and general texts of medium to higher difficulty and adequately translate them. They have the skills to actively create a coherent foreign-language text in both written and spoken form.

General qualification: Students can independently decide which language resources to utilize in the communication situation in order to successfully convey the desired message.
Syllabus
  • 1. Professional CV
  • 2. Formal letter: official letter, construction and form, language means
  • 3. Personality of the elderly, needs, interests: vocabulary, discussion, listening, working with text
  • 4. Education of the elderly: vocabulary, discussion, listening, working with text
  • 5. Cognitive training: vocabulary, discussion, listening, working with text
  • 6. Age management: vocabulary, discussion, listening, working with text
  • 7. Prejudices, stereotypes and myths about old age: solutions: vocabulary, discussion, listening, working with text
  • 8. Motivation to interest education of the elderly: vocabulary, discussion, listening, working with text
  • 9. Principles of education of the elderly: vocabulary, discussion, listening, working with text
  • 10. Practical search for professional articles and research related to the selected topic
  • 11. Elaboration of a presentation of a selected topic
  • 12. Discussion on a selected topic
  • 13. Discussion on a selected topic
Literature
    required literature
  • BUBOLZ-LUTZ, E.et al.Geragogik. Bildung und Lernen im Prozess des Alterns. Das Lehrbuch.Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-17-021164-3.
  • JOSEPH, M. P.Continuing Education in Senior Centers: A Handbook.CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. ISBN-13 978-1456409432.
  • СМ. ЕРМАК Н. А. Педагогическая поддержка качества жизни пожилых людей. – Ростов н/Д: ИПО ПИ ЮФУ, 2008.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
zápočet
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Accreditation winter, Winter 2019.
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