This is a one-semester Academic English course for intermediate English language level students. Students have three class hours. This course develops and reinforces 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 intermediate level. Academic texts and discipline-related materials enhance students’ confident use of appropriate grammar and text structures, enlarge their vocabulary and facilitate their development of language skills for a variety of academic contexts. The course provides students with the academic English skills and abilities necessary for studying at the university level in English.

CILO-1: Understand main points and supporting ideas in academic lectures and presentations while taking notes. CILO-2: Read academic texts to understand stance, ideas and opinions. CILO-3: Write well-structured, supported paragraphs and essays to support an argument. CILO-4: Collaborate in group activities and discussions to develop arguments and solve problems. CILO-5: Prepare and give discipline-related presentations with well-developed arguments. CILO-6: Independently use academic and discipline-related vocabulary and grammar flexibly.