Course Description

English for Academic Purposes :-The programme is structured so that learners study receptive skills such as reading and listening in order to have enough knowledge to practise their writing and speaking. Each week, the course alternates between reading and writing skills one week and listening and speaking skills the following week.

English for Academic Reading : 

Learning Outcome 1 - To understand the meaning of academic texts

Learners need to understand complex texts at educated native speaker level to develop their subject knowledge, prepare for lectures and carry out their assignments.

English for Academic Writing

Learning Outcome 2 - To demonstrate academic writing skills

• brainstorming a topic for research
• defining key concepts
• stating the aim of the research 
• constructing a thesis statement of their own ideas relating to the main principles
• drafting a methodological approach
• selecting and justifying a sampling frame
• discussing qualitative / quantitative approaches, covert / overt observation principles, interviewer bias
• writing a literature review