This module is designed to practice and consolidate academic language skills, with a focus on academic reading strategies. Classes expose students to a wide variety of academic texts, helping students gain competency in reading, understanding and summarising academic texts. This module has a focus on discipline-specific texts.
Students also develop skills for expressing themselves in written English. Particular emphasis is placed on the refinement of grammar and standard English writing conventions, as well as developing English vocabulary.
Academic Research Skills
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Understanding Genre
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Evaluating Sources
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Reading Abstracts
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Using textbooks
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Synthesising sources
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Critical thinking
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This module will be delivered in line with best practice ELT delivery, namely inclusive, student-centred, communicative methodologies.
The teacher will act as a facilitator in the classroom, ensuring students actively produce English through pair-work, group work and peer learning activities. Students will receive regular feedback on their writing and reading progress in line with the idea of ‘feedback to feedforward’, more specifically, the feedback will inform students on what they need to do to improve their writing and reading and the teacher on how to amend their class materials accordingly to meet students’ needs.
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |