{"id":75,"date":"2016-12-21T20:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/eltu\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2021-01-29T07:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T07:42:55","slug":"scientific-communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/scientific-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Communication Programme for the Students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>ENG 202 2.0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The English proficiency course offered by the English Language Teaching Unit to the students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences is geared to help students deal with any language problem they might have when they follow their courses in the English medium in their faculty.\u00a0\u00a0 The ten lessons planned for them in the first year first semester, cover the skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Awareness of the course and the above skills is given to the students during the orientation programme.\u00a0 A placement test is conduted during the orientation programme and those who score above 40 marks are exempted from the ongoing English classes. (They are considered as having passed the compulsory English requirement.) The main on-going classes are arranged for the students who have scored below 40 marks and these classes are aimed at developing the language skills needed to follow their academic course successfully.\u00a0\u00a0 However, Advanced English classes are organized for the students who have scored above 40 marks on request.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Course Content<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Accordingly, summary writing, paragraph writing, report writing based on graphs and paraphrasing, to improve their writing skills are taught within the programme.\u00a0 The grammar that the students need to know to write effective sentences are also taught in context, so that ,\u00a0 at the end of the course students are expected to know how to construct simple, compound and complex sentences and use all tenses, in the active and passive voice, successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">They are taught how to take effective notes in the listening activities planned for them. While many language games and activities are planned for the improvement of their speech, they are trained to make effective power point presentations as well as subject specific poster presentations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>First Year<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\">S<em>emester I<\/em> : The Placement Test<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(The students who score above 40 marks will be exempted from the final examination)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">COME 1101\u00a0\u00a0 Compulsory English (Scientific Communication)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">ACAE\u00a0 1102\u00a0\u00a0 (Academic English I \u2013 Optional)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(Two assignments of 10 marks each and no semester end written examination)<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Semester 11<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">COME 1201\u00a0\u00a0 Compulsory English (Scientific Communication)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">ACAE\u00a0 1202\u00a0\u00a0 (Academic English I \u2013 Optional)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(Two assignments of 10 marks each and a final written examination of 60 marks)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Second Year<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Semester I<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">ACAE 2101\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academic English II \u2013 Optional<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Semester II<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">ACAE 2201\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academic English III \u2013 Optional<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENG 202 2.0 The English proficiency course offered by the English Language Teaching Unit to the students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences is geared to help students deal with any language problem they might have when they follow their courses in the English medium in their faculty.\u00a0\u00a0 The ten lessons planned for them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.fhss.sjp.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}