Pre-sessional Academic English for Undergraduate Studies (10 week Summer)

Year 1

Learning outcomes

On completion of this programme students should have begun to:

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

Skills Learning Outcomes

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

Competence Standards

· Effectively communicate key facts and ideas in English

· Effectively follow academic conventions

· Effectively articulate the argument supported by evidence

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the stated learning outcomes and will include:
· demonstrating competencies in the language, skills, knowledge and understanding required of a student who is about to enter undergraduate level study;
· performing effectively in the academic environment of a university through integrated assessments involving reading, writing, speaking and listening required of a SELT.

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