This course is designed for PhD students who wish to improve their language proficiency in the CEF C1-C2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The CEF C1-C2 level is the highest level of proficiency and is characterized by near-native fluency and accuracy in the target language.
The aim of this training is to:
- reduce the number of persistent language errors
- increase English language proficiency by drawing attention to often unnoticed distinctions in language and grammar
- increase accuracy and communicative effectiveness in an academic context
Description of the training:
If you find that despite having a level of comfort in academic English, you continue to make consistent errors when you communicate, this is the right course for you. Such fossilized errors can hinder the ability to communicate effectively in writing, networking conversations, presentations - and on a professional level and may even be a professional liability.
Fortunately, these fossilized errors do not need to be permanent. This course places a focus on accuracy by drawing attention to fine distinctions in language and grammar at a Common European Framework C1-C2 level. Through active training and appropriate individual feedback, you will increase your language accuracy and refine and expand your communication skills in a variety of academic and professional contexts.
This online course includes 8 sessions of 90 minutes (Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00 pm starting 1 March 2023).
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This workshop is part of the transferable skills portfolio of the PIER Education platform on the science campus Bahrenfeld/DESY. The workshops are usually one-day courses for a maximum number of 12-15 participants and are offered once or twice a year. The trainers are carefully selected experts with many years of experience in teaching scientists. Some of the workshops are open for postdocs.
The workshops offered in the PIER Education Platform are a cooperation between the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School and its partner organisations and institutes Quantum Universe Research School QURS, the Collaborative Research Center SFB 925, The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, the International Max Planck Research School for Ultrafast Imaging & Structural Dynamics IMPRS-UFAST, DASHH, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL and HELIOS.
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