Pre Academic English

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to develop reading skills; read short essays, and skim for the main ideas and important details; develop skills in critical thinking and expressing through building basic connections between ideas using appropriate transitions and conjunctions; organize ideas in a paragraph, and in simple essay types; write different kinds of paragraphs; write different kinds of simple essays; speak more confidently, question intelligently and critically, produce and give a simple presentation; generally improve language skills and expand their AWL (Academic Word List).

Topics

This course is designed to increase student understanding of academic discourse, both written and spoken, and the ability to produce such discourse, at a certain level, in relation to general and student specific studies. It focuses on the establishment of a disciplined approach to academic writing, reading, speaking, including critical thinking. Language skills are provided by a workshop series in grammar, syntax and academic lexis acquisition. Emphasis is placed on developing the student’s AWL (Academic Word List). Reading skills, such as skimming, scanning and summarizing are studied together with the production of various paragraph and essay types, such as comparison and contrast, and this culminates in the production of simple essays, such as expository, narrative and argumentation. The course also focuses on academic style spoken communication.

Prerequisite : Completion of Pre-University