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General description

This course is meant for students who need more practice and support in their written academic skills in English BEFORE taking the course Introduction to Academic English.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
- use different reading strategies when reading academic texts
- understand the basic structure of academic texts
- analyse and understand more complex sentence structures
- use different comprehension strategies to deal with difficult vocabulary
- reflect on their own learning strategies and experiment with new ones

Contents

Students will read and analyse different academic texts in an attempt to become familiar with academic conventions and structures. Students will also be asked to produce short texts and reflect on their own learning processes.

Teaching methods

The average student workload for a 2 credit course is 54 hours (2 x 27). The distribution of hours between classwork, tutorials, online work and other independent work will vary.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Pass/fail.
Pass/fail. Continuous assessment, successful completion of assignments.

Study materials

Material distributed during the course.

Belongs to following study modules