[Ressenya del llibre Il "genere" dei libri. Storie e rappresentazioni della lectura al femminile e al maschile tra Medioevo e età moderna, de Tiziana Plebani]

"Cada escritura nace de un deseo, de una pasión ..., los libros, que parecen objetos inanimados, ocultan mucho más que ideas". Comparto estas palabras de Tiziana Plebani, su libro, sin duda, es fruto del deseo de aunar la historia erudita del libro con la atención a lo particular, a lo cotidiano, y con la voluntad de dar espacio a los cuerpos de las mujeres y de los hombres en la historia de lo escrito en la Europa Mediterránea, especialmente en Italia, y es un deseo hecho realidad

Experience in introduction of English terminology in engineering lessons: methodology and evaluation

This communication explains a experience for the introduction of English terminology in a technical degree of higher education. We present the methodology and assessment procedures used to evaluate the way the students perceived the introduction of terminology in English in two different subjects from 3rd and 5th year courses of a Computer Science degree in which English was not the vehicular language. We propose a strategy based on two main pillars, namely: 1) The design of materials, explanations, and exams, paying particular attention to the way in which the specific terminology was exposed to the students, and 2) The assessment of the impact in the students by means of the analysis of the feedback trough a set of enquiries. Our experience showed that the students responded very positively to the introduction of English terminology, and presented an affirmative feedback about the impact that an improvement of their linguistic abilities would have in their future work. Further, we present statistics regarding the use of English as the vehicular language for technical reports, which is envisaged as very useful by the students. Finally, we propose a set of questions for further debate which are centered in the role that English terminology should pay in technical degrees, and about the way in which universities should deploy resources in English languages within the different Syllabus