English for Specific Academic Purposes

Module code: LAU3002-B

Module Aims

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.

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