University of Medicine, Taunggyi

Department of English

Department of English

Objectives

At the end of the course the students should be able to:

  • Utilize active reading strategies to increase comprehension in reading various texts.
  • Demonstrate the ability to pronounce words with a degree of accuracy sufficient for intelligibility in an international context applying appropriate stress and intonation patterns.
  • Write concisely, concretely, and accurately and communicatively to organize ideas.
  • Recognize the conventions of scientific writing styles and present scientific information in appropriate language.
  • Apply medical related vocabulary and terminology in contexts.
  • Achieve fluency and accuracy in speaking for academic and general purposes.
  • Use grammatical structures appropriately and accurately in writing tasks.
Department of English

Department Objectives

At the end of the course the students will have:

  • Knowledge
    • acquired knowledge and usage of grammatical structure and relevant English language functions for communication.
    • acquired basic understanding of health through reading literature, writing and speaking.
  • Skills
    • acquired skills in using English correctly by reading and doing a variety of exercises.
    • acquired acceptable proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
    • gained ability of organization facts, figures and ideas and presenting logically and coherently.
  • Attitude
    • become self-reliant learner through programmed learning (self-learning packages).
    • achieved enough proficiency in participating actively in workshops, discussions, seminars and conferences conducted in English.
    • acquired a sense of responsibility towards the health problems of the community as well as social problems related to health.