Module manager: Harry Harrop
Email: G.E.Harrop@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: 1 Sep to 31 Jan (adv yr), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
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This module is not approved as a discovery module
On this module you will develop English language and academic study skills, learn how to cope with the demands of future undergraduate courses, develop the ability to work independently, and explore the facilities available as part of an introduction to life and study in the UK. Your academic skills classes focus on a particular topic each week and build towards a portfolio task. The academic skills classes use a weekly academic topic as context for developing language (e.g. vocabulary, grammar etc.) and integrated skills (e.g. reading, speaking etc.). Typically, you will have input at the beginning of the week through reading and listening, and your lessons will build towards producing a piece of written work or participating in a spoken task by the end of the week for the portfolio task
This module provides you with the opportunity to: develop a thorough foundation in the use of English for Academic Purposes; revise and develop study skills such as note-taking and research skills, so that you can cope with the language demands of your future academic course; and acquire strategies to become an independent learner.
1. Demonstrate an awareness of relevant written and spoken conventions, academic genre, and discourse
2. Evaluate the appropriacy of sources for academic contexts and display an understanding of academic integrity issues when using those sources, including the use of Generative AI.
3. Use written and spoken academic language to suit a clear communicative purpose through a coherent, accurate, and fluent range of appropriate lexical and grammatical structures
4. Employ appropriate language choices in relation to audience and purpose at whole text, paragraph and sentence level while following academic conventions such as referencing, synthesis and meeting task requirements
5. Select and use information from sources to suit a clear academic purpose, such as developing an argument, synthesising sources or reflecting on experience.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seminars | 43 | 2 | 86 |
| Seminars | 53 | 2.5 | 132.5 |
| Fieldwork | 3 | 2.5 | 7.5 |
| Independent online learning hours | 55 | ||
| Private study hours | 159 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 226 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 440 | ||
Your performance will be closely monitored throughout the semester. As well as ad hoc feedback from tutors during classes, you will receive tailored feedback on your weekly portfolio task. The piece of work you submit will be evaluated and your personal tutor will provide oral and written feedback indicating your ongoing performance and how you can improve. The type of task will typically alternate each week between a writing task and a speaking task. These will increase in challenge throughout the module allowing you to develop your language and skills. You will regularly meet your personal tutor and will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about your progress.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Portfolio | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
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Last updated: 08/07/2025
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