English Language I

3 ECTS / Semester / English
Objectives:
 
  1. To revise, recycle and consolidate students’ existing knowledge of English in order to eliminate inaccuracy in spoken and written work. To extend students’ vocabulary and reading skills.
  2. To develop students’ language awareness in order to aid them to express opinions on a range of media and current affairs themes. To present detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects. Write fluent and coherent texts on familiar matters.
  3. To read and understand English used in the current media (newspapers, the Internet) and complex articles concerned with contemporary problems.
  4. To provide students with the necessary skills to use English both receptively and productively to engage in a range of pedagogic and real-life activities and to interact with a certain degree of fluency and spontaneity.

Faculty

Assistant Professor
Phd in Modern Languages and Literature, with a specialization in Language and Culture. She has taught English and Translation in the Social and Cultural…
Assistant Professor
Professor at the FCH – Faculty of Human Sciences, UCP – Catholic University of Portugal since 2001 lecturing English on the Communications Studies undergraduate…
Lecture
With a background in both languages and political science, Matthew holds a BA (Hons) in French and Italian from Manchester Metropolitan University and a MA in…
Assistant Professor
Sara Eckerson is Assistant Professor at FCH-UCP. She received her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies, with a specialization in Literary Theory, from the…
Assistant
Has an MA degree in Translation from NOVA university Lisbon and has been an assistant lecturer at FCH since 2023. Currently pursuing a PhD in Translation…