Offered in the 2100 semester, this course aims to aims to develop students’ formal communicative skills in English for study purposes in the academic context to achieve a similar competence level as IELTS Band 5-6. Furthermore, the intended learning outcomes of the course are as follows:
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produce error-free sentences that express predictions,
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summarize and paraphrase the content of academic papers/ articles in order to identify contextual meanings of academic texts,
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differentiate between formal and informal aspects of language,
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select the appropriate language in presentations of academic nature,
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identify, extract and describe data from scientific reports and essays, and,
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deliver speeches in formal settings.