Courses for School of Business
- Basic English Course
- English for Academic Purposes
- Business Communication
Other Faculties
English for Academic Purposes
for School of Business (NK1001)
Objective
To equip students with skills and strageies for academic reading and writing.
Specific Objectives
Reading:
To enable students to
- develop their own schema prior to reading texts
- analyse text organisation.
- read for main ideas
- critically analyse content
Students are guided to work out information structures of academic texts and taught to identify devices that signalrelationships between ideas. Through discussion of texts, students evaluateideas, arrive at informed judgements and develop their own points of view.
Writing:
To enable students to
- analyse and interpret essay/examination questions
- develop logical arguments by outlining and planning thier writing using relevant rhetorical structures
- critically reflect on thier own writing
- revise, edit and proof-read thier own writing
The writing tasks focus on academic writing skills with emphasis on expostition and argumentation. Students are guided through the composing process, namely pre-writing, drafting and revision.
Grammar:
To ensure students are able to understand grammar rules by making them
- explain the rules through mini-presentations
- apply the rules to tesxt-editing exercises
Assessment and Examination Format
Evaluation consists of a series of continual assessments (CAs) and a final written examination held at the end of the semester.
The following continual assessments constitute 60% of the final marks:
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15% | |
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15% | |
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10% | |
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20% | |
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10% | |
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20% | |
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10% |
Students should keep a grammar module folder containing mini-presentation notes, grammar exercises and quizzes printed from th IVLE.
The final written examination consists of three sections:
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10% | |
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20% | |
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10% |
The exam constitutes 40% of the final marks.