This module will familiarise you with the English language skills, vocabulary and conventions specific to your preferred pathway and future academic aspirations, and sufficient to cope with independent study at undergraduate level, i.e. equivalent to B2 (CEFR) level. You will be grouped in small class sizes with you on a ‘Science and Health Pathway’ or a ‘Business and Social Science Pathway’. You will be able to speak individually and interact with others on pathway related academic topics, conveying the general message in most contexts; follow the argument of lectures and other longer stretches of speech on pathway related academic topics; understand a range of academic texts and complete a variety of tasks based on them; and cope with written assignments specific to your pathway at undergraduate level.
Outline Syllabus
Grammar, which will focus on rhetorical patterns prominent in pathway genres.
Skills to support the independent learning of pathway -specific vocabulary and collocations.
Academic listening skills relevant to pathway specific genres.
Academic speaking skills for expressing rhetorical patterns appropriate to pathway-specific genres; awareness of the phonological features of English required to support ability in these skills.
A range of strategies for fast and effective reading such as prediction, surveying, skimming, scanning, speed-reading, word-attack skills and discriminating main from supporting points; ability to evaluate and use sources and take notes.
Skills for paraphrasing, summarising, organising, evaluating and critiquing academic writing.