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English for Academic Purposes (EG1471)

EG1471 has been specifically designed to help you function more effectively in academic English. The primary focus of the course is on writing academic texts.  To help you prepare for your writing tasks, there are readings, discussion, and grammar exercises which you do in class, in CELC's Self-Access English Learning Facility (SELF) or via the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE).  You are also required to build an e-Portfolio to encourage self-directed learning habits, regular writing practice, as well as demonstrate your effort in improving your academic English language skills.

Objectives

  1. To prepare for your academic writing tasks, you will develop the ability to:
    • explore organizational features of academic texts and apply these in your own writing
    • use ideas from reading to stimulate, generate, and support your writing
    • compose logically-organized and coherent academic texts
    • critique and assess your own writing and your classmates’ writing assignments.
  2. To understand organization and meaning in reading, you will develop ability to identify
    3. and construct:
    • a writer's thesis
    • paragraph-level main ideas
    • thesis-text connections (i.e., connections between paragraphs).
  3. To further develop your reading skills, you will:
    • activate and build content and formal knowledge
    • explore reading strategies that you can effectively use to access the meaning of texts, including your first language reading strategies that you can use to understand texts in English
    • develop academic vocabulary to facilitate your access to meanings of texts.
  4. To function effectively in academic English, you will the develop ability to:
    • apply grammar rules to identify and correct errors in practice texts and your own texts.

Method of Teaching

This course provides approximately equal time to instruction and writing practice. You will do individual and group work in this course.  During instruction time, you will learn and practice the different stages of writing, explore and practice reading strategies, discuss readings and do grammar exercises.  During writing time, you will practice the stages of writing in the classroom or a computer lab.  In addition, you will have the opportunity to present your ideas orally, give and receive peer feedback, and conference with your lecturer to discuss your writing in order for you to independently revise your written work.

Assessment

The final course grade is obtained from the class activities or continual assessment (60%) and the final exam (40 %).   

Continual Assessment  60%

Writing (24%) *

  • Writing Assignment 1 - 4%

  • Writing Assignment 2 - 20%

Grammar and Reading (24%)

  • Text Editing Tasks - 12%

  • Reading Tasks - 12%

Course-specific elements (12%)

  • Portfolio - 4%

  • Roundtable discussion - 4%

  • Participation - 4%