English for Academic Purposes - International Foundation

Module description

This module provides you with the skills you need to express yourself through speaking and writing within a variety of academic contexts in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It also aims to develop reading and listening skills within those same contexts. The module focuses on understanding your strengths and weaknesses, reflecting on and redrafting work using feedback, and working effectively under pressure. The module helps you develop an ability to understand and make effective use of academic articles, books and lectures while avoiding plagiarism. It also teaches you to structure and write critical assignments, and to give academic presentations. 

Assessment details

Coursework 60%; Exam 40%

Educational aims & objectives

• Develop your ability to write critically, fluently and accurately for a variety of academic contexts in the arts, humanities and select social sciences.
• Increase your ability to read and listen critically and selectively in order to inform academic writing and speaking.
• Help you learn to communicate appropriately and effectively in a variety of academic contexts, including seminars, presentations and tutorials.
• Help ensure that you can understand and use a wide range of academic vocabulary and grammar relevant to the arts, humanities and select social sciences.
• Further your ability to learn creatively, independently, responsibly and reflectively.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, you will:

• Have demonstrated an increased ability to write effectively in coursework and under timed conditions.
• Feel better prepared for and more confident about the writing and speaking tasks you will encounter on your undergraduate programme.
• Have demonstrated an increased ability to understand and make use of a variety of spoken and written academic sources.
• Have greater confidence in communicating in the range of situations you will encounter on your undergraduate programme.
• Feel more capable of successfully managing your own learning.

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