English Language 4

This course focuses on developing students' context-based skills in English and their communicative competence by covering a wide range of topics related to specific disciplines of engineering i.e., civil and surveying engineering, architecture etc. (e.g., planning, designing and constructing buildings and other structures, materials and types of constructions, construction of bridges or tunnels, airports or harbours, earthquakes among others). This course aims at increasing students' vocabulary and familiarizing them with a variety of text types and discourse environments while it involves them in using the language for a variety of purposes. The main focus is to enable students develop essential professional language and increase their competence in using this new language when dealing with a variety of technical texts.