The key aims of this course are to:communicate confidently and effectively in a variety of technological development contexts, promote self-reliance in the English language through post-course personal reflectionand development. By the end of this course, students should be able to:speak confidently and freely on pre-assigned topics,follow and contribute extensively to discussion relating to the development of technologies,analyse and evaluate their own language needs,actively use appropriate technology-specific vocabulary and phrases,deepen their understanding of, and their ability to produce, a range of grammatical structures.

Teaching methods will include:role playindividual and group activitieswritten and video-based case studiesself-study tasks.

The course will address language issues in some of the following contexts:innovation and development computers and societydigital revolutionsocial mediasustainabilityartificial intelligencemobile securitythe future …!

Source materials will be drawn from a variety of current media and will be distributed during the course. 

Assessment will be based on a combination of oral and written exams as well as course work. 

Class content

Ability to reproduce, adapt and apply skills covered in class. Kindly note that: academic dishonesty will lead to a fail gradeadditional oral exams can be set individually to validate results of written work where authorship is dubitableactive participation is required.