Technical English

The course is designed for English-majored students to obtain listening and speaking skills at intermediate level (B1+). To be more specific, students can achieve listening-speaking strategies (getting main ideas and details) and can comprehend common themes of work, school, entertainment, hobbies, experience description, dream, etc. and then discuss, give reasons as well as explain ideas about the given topics. Moreover, students can broaden their general knowledge and pool of vocabulary through units. Furthermore, academic skills, such as inferring, summarizing, giving presentation, group-work, test-taking are emphasized during in-class activities to develop learners’ critical thinking and study skills.

This course is to help English majors at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education achieve intermediate grammar (level B1+). Particularly, students not only comprehend the structures and meanings in various contexts of clauses as well as conjunctions but they also use these structures to improve the skills. Moreover, they can have an overview of difficulties in studying grammar in order to have solutions for their future work. Also, students are trained to study independently as well as work in groups effectively.

Grammar 1 is designed to help English-majored freshmen progress toward pre-intermediate level (equivalent to B1 - CEFR). Through communicative activities on interesting contemporary topics, students will have better comprehension of grammar structure and context for better use of parts of speech, tenses, modal verbs and verb forms. This course, therefore, offers intensive practice so that students can express their ideas effectively as well as master their individual and teamwork skills.

This is one of the courses which helps students to combine their knowledge of English with their technical knowledge and develop their four skills through varied activities. Authentic reading and listening passages from a wide variety of sources, and a large range of topics, e.g. basic electric electricity, electric circuits, electric motors, electronics in the home, data transmission, and many more will not only enlarge students’ knowledge of electrics and electronics but increase their technical terms as well. The emphasis of the course is on learning how to read technical texts dealing with electrical and electronic engineering and to read and describe diagrams, graphs, electrical and electronic values of components, etc. The course fosters students’ capability of independence in employing the available sources recommended to develop their technical English and working in technical English fields.