Undergraduate Course: English for Academic Purposes Course 1 (LLLG07122)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 0 |
ECTS Credits | 0 |
| Summary | This three-week full-time course is the first stage of our 10-week EAP Pre-sessional Programme. It is for international students who need to improve their academic English skills in preparation for entry to postgraduate degree programmes at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Course description |
1) Academic Description
This pre-sessional EAP course forms the first block of ELE's ten-week Pre-sessional Programme. It is for international students whose current English level (measured on IELTS) indicates that they are likely to need up to ten weeks of full-time pre-sessional study to raise their English skills to the level required for entry to their chosen postgraduate degree (normally PGT) programme at Edinburgh. EAP1 focuses on developing the basic academic language skills required for successful study at postgraduate level in the UK: academic writing including the appropriate use of sources, efficient approaches to reading academic textbooks and journal articles, strategies for successfully listening to and taking notes from lectures, and participating effectively in seminar discussions based on set reading.
Students who attend EAP1 progress automatically to EAP2 and normally complete the ten-week Pre-sessional Programme.
Key aims of the Pre-sessional programme are the development of student autonomy and transferability of the skills taught to the students' future study contexts.
2) Outline Content
The Writing component of the course includes work on sentence structure and information flow within and between sentences, paragraphing, the appropriate use of cohesive language in composing coherent academic text, citation, including direct quotation, paraphrase and summary, synthesising material from different sources, academic register, writing definitions, and general and specialist academic vocabulary, including strategies for learning vocabulary. The Reading work highlights the role of reading in PG study and how to approach academic texts such as textbooks and journal articles in order to select appropriate material and use the structure and language to read efficiently. Students prepare for and participate in class Seminars. Work on Lecture Listening and Note-taking focuses on understanding the purpose of lectures within a taught programme, strategies for effective listening (particularly predicting, monitoring and responding), and the importance of note-taking to ensure engagement with content. Students have regular classroom practice in taking notes from videos of lecture extracts, and are encouraged to evaluate their success.
3) Student Learning Experience
The course is delivered by three groups of staff: course directors who present daily lectures and are responsible for the operational
management of the course on each site; course tutors, who work with classes of up to twelve students; and course assistants, who work as classroom assistants, monitor lab work, and are available for informal conversation with students during the morning break.
After an orientation day, daily interactive lectures given by course directors provide content input. Students spend around half of each teaching day in class groups with tutors, sometimes supported by course assistants, practising academic language skills and receiving feedback. Most days include work on writing tasks in a computer lab, monitored by course assistants.
Each student also participates in one small group tutorial with their tutor, to discuss their class work.
Students receive written formative feedback on three written assignments, and oral feedback on their performance in seminar and note-taking tasks.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify key information in journal articles
- Cite sources correctly and appropriately in writing
- Write a short source-based essay
- Follow and take effective notes from short recorded talks
- Participate actively in short seminar discussions based on set reading
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Enquiry and lifelong learning; aspiration and personal development; outlook and engagement; research and enquiry; personal and intellectual autonomy; personal effectiveness; communication |
| Keywords | pre-sessional,EAP,Englsih,postgraduate,academic language,writing,reading,lectures,listening,note |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Anthony Elloway
Tel: (0131 6)50 6200
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Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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