Pilot Course: Oral Practice Sessions in English for Health Sciences

During the winter semester 2017-2018 the Foreign Languages Center of the University of Ioannina organized oral practice sessions in English for the students of the School of Health Sciences. From the beginning of October till the end of December 2017 small groups of students from the Depts. of Medicine and Biological Applications and Technology discussed on a weekly basis current issues of medical and biological interest, such as science and gender, mental health, vaccination, euthanasia etc. in order to practice their oral skills in the English language.

The programme was inspired by Julia Ziener from the University of Regensburg (Germany), who carried out her practice in the Foreign Languages Center of the University of Ioannina and she is currently at the final stage of her Master Programme in Linguistics. The Academic coordinator of the programme was Dr. T. Tseligka (Senior Teaching Fellow in EAP/ESP at the Department of Medicine).
The students showed great interest in the course and, upon its completion, they evaluated it very positively in the assessment questionnaires.

We would like especially to thank Julia Ziener who put together rich multimedia material for the course available in the following link:

http://ecourse.uoi.gr/course/view.php?id=1639

Our goal is to organize similar oral sessions in different fields of science.