This is a one-semester Academic English course for low-intermediate English language level students. Students have six class hours, one tutorial hour and an e-learning requirement. This course improves and consolidates academic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through students’ active participation in diverse and intensive academic and discipline-related activities and assessments at an appropriate low-intermediate level. Short academic texts and discipline-related materials enhance students’ accurate use of more complex grammar and text structures, enlarge their vocabulary and facilitate their development of language skills for a variety of academic contexts. The course provides practice for students to develop the academic English skills and abilities necessary for studying at the university level in English.

CILO-1: Understand main points and supporting ideas in clearly structured lectures and presentations on common academic topics. CILO-2: Read intermediate academic texts to understand facts and conclusions. CILO-3: Write short, structured, connected texts to summarize information and give opinions on discipline-related topics. CILO-4: Participate in and maintain group discussions using appropriate academic language and expressions. CILO-5: Prepare and give detailed discipline-related presentations. CILO-6: Recognize and use academic and discipline-related vocabulary and complex grammar structures.