Course Description

This course focuses instructions on skills required to perform in an English-speaking academic context across core subject areas generally encountered in a university or vocational education and training setting. It focuses on vocabulary, grammar and the four skills (reading, writing, speaking including pronunciation and listening). It includes speaking in tutorials, giving presentations, listening to lectures, reading academic texts, and writing essays and reports. This course aims to help you in achieving your further study goals. This course can also be intended to raise students’ general English levels so that they can enter a university or vocational education and training college.

LEVEL

Upper-Intermediate - Advanced

Mode of Study and Assessment

This course is delivered in a classroom environment with formative (weekly tests) and summative (mid-course level test, note-taking test, oral presentation project, essay project and end of course level test) assessments

HOURS / WEEK

20 hours/ week + 5 hours/ week of self-study

Entry Requirements

• Minimum 18 years of age
• IELTS 5.0 or equivalent or successful completion of the college’s English Language Placement Test