What can you learn in this course?
After completing the course “Technical English. Electrical Engineering” you will...
- ... recognize, understand and use a huge variety of technical vocabulary in your field of study
- ... recognize and use appropriate context-specific grammatical structures
- ... apply strategies that help you understand and follow lectures and other longer contributions in your field of study
- ... apply strategies that help you understand texts, even longer and complex ones, in your field of study
- ... identify and produce the language and features of the subject-specific text types process description, product description and graph description
- ... have developed strategies to learn vocabulary independently, to cope with a self-paced learning mode and to continuously motivate yourself in the learning process
Outline
- Welcome and Introduction
- Electrostatic Forces
- Electric Field Lines
- Charged Bodies and Electric Fields
- Review Unit 1-3
- Current Density
- Water Flow Analogy
- Electric Circuit Diagram
- Review Unit 4-6
- Resistance
- The IV-Diagram
- Measuring Devices
- Working in the Lab
- Review Unit 7-10
Author
Dorle Stecher trained as a foreign language correspondence clerk. After
that, she lived and worked abroad for several years before studying
Educational Linguistics and English Language and Culture at Hamburg
University and Adult Learning at Linköping University. Dorle Stecher is a
freelance trainer of English for Specific Purposes, German as a Foreign
Language and Intercultural Communication. She calls on many years of
experience in e-learning and is a certified online trainer.