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Professional English I

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Course abstract

The course is aimed at the acquisition of knowledge and skills in professional English language with the express purpose of extending the students` professional qualification and improving the students` communication skills with foreign students and specialists (including work placement abroad, participation in guest lectures, work in joint venture companies, etc.). The study course envisages the mastering of language skills in various forms and levels of communication – reading, speaking, listening, and writing focusing on the terminology of civil engineering

Learning outcomes and their assessment

• knowledge - terminology related to architecture, engineering, construction, professional information in the English language; the knowledge of the language use in the professional area
• skills - students are able to apply the knowledge and communicative skills, including reading, speaking, listening and writing skills, in their professional activities, participating in discussions, seminars, making presentations. Students are able to use professional terminology in various communicative situations . They are able to search, select, structure and analyse necessary information in a English language on the web, use professional dictionaries
• competence - students have improved the competence of professional English language in order to use both spoken and written English language corresponding to a communicative situation: professional activity, student mobility and in academic environment.

Compulsory reading

1.Ibbotson M. Cambridge English for Engineering. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 112 p. ISBN-10: 0521715180.
2. Ibbotson M. Professional English in Use. Engineering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 144 p. ISBN-10: 0521734886 | ISBN-13: 978-0521734882.
3. Killers V.K. Latviešu – angļu ilustrētā būvniecības terminu vārdnīca. Rīga: Avots, 2000. 198 lpp. ISBN 5401010583.
4. Bonamy D. Technical English 2 (Pre-inter). Pearson Education Ltd, 2008. 124 p. ISBN 13: 9781405845540 ISBN 10: 1405845546

Further reading

1.Graham P. Building Ecology: first principles for a sustainable built environment. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2003. 290 p. ISBN 0632064137.
2. Badger I., Pedley S. Everyday Business Writing. Harlow : Longman, 2003. 95 p. ISBN: 9780582539723
3. Love T. W. Construction manual: concrete and form work. Craftsman Book Company, 2005. 158 p. ISBN 10: 0910460035; ISBN 13: 9780910460033.

Periodicals and other sources

1. Building Design and Construction. ISSN: 0007-3407
2. Latvijas Būvniecība. ISSN: 1691-4058.
3. Civil Engineering. Published by American Society of Civil Engineers. ISSN: 0885-7024