230840 English for Psychologists (level B2+/C1) (S) (WiSe 2009/2010)

This course is designed primarily to help students of psychology deal with the very difficult texts they have to read for their major. Using a mix of materials from different sources (academic journals, English textbooks for psychology, Internet texts), students will train a set of reading and lexical strategies, practice their listening and speaking skills on the basis of audio or video materials, and hone their writing skills through Wiki-style text entries on relevant questions as well as through the preparation of a summary or abstract, if desired. Reading strategies include:

• strategies for quick reading (skimming scanning)
• identifying the text structure/skeletizing a text
• identify conventional patterns of academic articles
• identifying viewpoints, separating fact from opinion

Lexical strategies include:

• dealing with unfamiliar words
• collocation and connotation
• building up a word bank of relevant terms of art

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen, notwendige Vorkenntnisse

Successful completion of another B2+-or C1-rated course or C-Test (for dates please see
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fachsprachenzentrum/tests.html. )

of the Language Center (for dates, please see the homepage of the Language Center)