This course is an advanced general education EAL curriculum in the highly specialized field of English for academic purposes. It is designed for advanced learners who are preparing for academic study.

Graduates of this course can develop language and literacy knowledge and skills that will enable them to produce high level responses to assignments and examinations that conform to academic principles of acknowledging the work of others and avoiding plagiarism.

Learners can develop study and interaction skills that enable them to:

• participate productively in group assignments and projects and tutorial discussions

• produce written texts that conform to established patterns of academic writing through an understanding of how different texts types such as discussions, reports and expositions are structured and the grammatical patterns that structure information and argument logically in cohesive texts.

This course can provide the academic language and literacy skills that enable learners of English as an additional language to read a range of complex texts and develop high-level responses to assessment requirements in academic contexts.

Graduates of this course will be able to apply this knowledge to demonstrate their expertise in the specific academic disciplines in which they are preparing to study.

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CRICOS code: 089000J