Foreign Language and Technical Terminology Ι

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Know the structure and syntactic and lexical structures of basic academic-scientific textual genres (e.g. scientific article, thesis, report).
• Distinguish the linguistic characteristics of academic discourse in the English language.
• Use specialized scientific terminology depending on the textual genre.
• Produce texts on scientific topics in their field of knowledge, demonstrating controlled use of organizational patterns, connectives, and cohesion mechanisms.
• Understand ways to search and manage authoritative sources.
• Synthesize information from available sources with critical thinking.
• Know how to avoid plagiarism (summarizing, paraphrasing, and citing research).
• Recognize different referencing systems (eg. APA, MLA, IEEE, etc.) and record the bibliographic sources used.

Indicative Module Content

• English Language Elements Review: Verb Tenses. Passive voice. Adverbs and Conjunctions, Prepositions. Understanding of passage. Modals, Relative clauses and other sentence types, prepositions
• Definitions and key concepts. Categories of technical terms.
• Introduction to basic terms of Electronic Engineering and computer science, Historical review of the evolution of computers, Computer parts (hardware), integrated circuit, Software.
• The essential features of academic writing.
• The structure and linguistic style of definitions, categorizations, and generalizations.
• Plagiarism in the academic environment.
• Summarizing, types of summarizing, paraphrasing and synthesizing information from various sources.
• Bibliographic references-references and bibliography.