Graduates of this qualification will have the English language skills to:

1. Understand main ideas and key supporting details of complex oral texts on familiar and sometimes unfamiliar topics.

2. Read and understand complex texts with a large degree of independence on familiar and sometimes unfamiliar topics.

3. Locate, organise and summarise important information in texts.

4. Speak with fluency and spontaneity to communicate with some degree of elaboration in a range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts.

5. Write coherent texts appropriate to audience and purpose, with few linguistic errors in a range of text types, synthesising and evaluating information and arguments from a number of sources.

Successful completion of this course can enable the student to meet the English Language entry requirements for the Bachelor of Health Science degrees and the Diploma in Tuina (Level 7) at NZCCM and be considered for entry to other programmes offered at NZCCM (Auckland and on line Campus’s)