ES1000 - Foundation Academic English
Description
This is a required course for students whose Qualifying English Test results show that they would benefit from basic English language skills support. Students in the course must pass this course before they are allowed to read the next required English course, English for Academic Purposes (ES1103). The purpose of ES1000 is to improve the students' English language skills in reading, writing and grammar. These skills are taught, reviewed and reinforced through online, in-class and appropriate out-of-class activities. Assignments include reflections, written assignments and progress tests.
This course is taught over 1 semester with a two-hour online lecture/discussion/quiz and a two-hour sectional teaching per week.
Objectives
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- recognise the structure of paragraphs used in academic contexts;
- write coherent paragraphs in an academic style;
- use a range of sentence structures and grammatical features appropriate to writing tasks for academic contexts;
- identify and correct a specific set of grammatical errors in written texts;
- identify and use a range of vocabulary for academic contexts; and
- design and evaluate their independent language learning, particularly in terms of grammar and paragraph writing.
Assessment
ES1000 is a 100% Continuous Assessment course.
Prerequisites
Placement through the Qualifying English Test.
Preclusions
Nil
Units
Nil
Workload
2-2-0-2-2