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Higher Education
Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development
School of Communication, Culture and Languages
Campus Footscray Park.
Prerequisite(s) Entry to this unit of study will normally be open to students who fulfil the following criteria: have gained general entry to the BA; English is not their first language; the major part of their formal schooling has not been conducted in the English language.
Content Students will be introduced to the conventions of academic writing such as paragraph writing, unity and outlining, coherence, patterns of essay organisation and referencing. Skills of summary, analysis, reviewing and sequencing of material will be taught within oral and written contexts. The unit focuses on the systematic study of English structures and their communicative functions within a range of text types. English phonetics and phonology are included. The unit of study is built around specific themes focusing on society and culture in Australia: it employs a topic approach incorporating a variety of skills together with language proficiency.
Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Understand the requirements needed to be able to successfully produce academic writing;
Use the four skills of language study ie. listening, speaking, reading and writing in a more confident manner appropriate for university study;
Demonstrate a better understanding of society and culture in Australia.
Required Reading Oshima, A & Hogue, A 1999, Writing academic English, 3rd Edn, Longman, New York.
Recommended Reading To be advised by lecturer.
Class Contact Two two-hour workshops.
Assessment Assessment will be based on a series of practical tasks. Class and homework exercises 40%; Oral presentation 20%; Aural test 10%; Written examination 30%.
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