EAS 1000

Course outline.

Programme highlights.

What we'll cover.

1. 01
   Week 1

   DATA

   Academic Focus: Description, interpretation, and stance. Reading: Evaluate data sources and assess their credibility; recognize stance and subtle evaluation; practice Evaluation (1): Adverbials. Writing: Interpret data in visual form; practice data commentary; construct complex noun phrases (3): Multiple postmodifiers.

2. 02
   Week 2

   DATA

   Listening: Evaluate data and evidence; critically evaluate a presentation. Speaking: Plan, research, and rehearse a short presentation of visual data; practice evaluating data, interpretation, and stance. Practice Signposting (3): Referring to visual data. Vocabulary: Practice Being specific (exact details about data); start Research Project (1) (choosing a topic).

3. 03
   Week 3

   INFLUENCE

   Academic Focus: Cause, effect, and association. Reading: Identify cause, effect, and association connections in a complex text; recognize confident and tentative connections. Writing: Explain cause and effect relationships coherently. Practice Connection (2): Expressing cause and effect coherently.

4. 04
   Week 4

   INFLUENCE

   Listening: Listen for facts, association, and evaluation in a lecture. Practice Connection (3): Association, speculation, and degree of certainty. Speaking: Gather evidence for a Seminar (4) discussion. Practice Evaluation (2): Defending your argument and using appropriate justifying language. Vocabulary: Practice Word formation (1) (prefixes and compound words); begin Research Project (2) (establishing a working title).

5. 05
   Week 5

   VARIATION

   Academic Focus: Evaluation and critical response. Reading: Evaluate narrative in source texts; identify writing style levels (formality and marked language). Practice Style (3): Marked language. Writing: Recognize, respond to, and express evaluation. Write a critical response to a text. Practice Evaluation (3): Confident and tentative language.

6. 06
   Week 6

   VARIATION

   Listening: Practice techniques for dealing with different lecture styles. Use lecture notes and slides effectively. Speaking: Prepare for an oral summary/evaluation of a text; participate in a seminar discussion incorporating examples. Practice Discussion: Giving examples. Vocabulary: Use Idioms in academic writing; begin Research Project (3) (making an outline plan).

7. 07
   Week 7

   GLOBALIZATION

   Academic Focus: Problems, solutions, and evaluation. Reading: Identify problems, solutions, and evaluation in texts; recognize perspective and stance of writers; practice Sentence patterns (1): identifying subject + verb to work out meaning. Writing: Define problems, propose solutions, and incorporate voicing in an essay. Practice Evaluation (4): Collocation and connotation.

8. 08
   Week 8

   GLOBALIZATION

   Listening: Read a conference presentation abstract to predict content; use known and new information (Sentence patterns (2)). Speaking: Pre- to post-presentation planning; giving and evaluating a presentation. Practice Discussion (6): Giving suggestions. Vocabulary: Sensitive language (connotation); begin Research Project (4) (writing a first draft).

9. 09
   Week 9

   OBSERVATION

   Academic Focus: Knowledge, case study, and process. Reading: Understand case studies; use generic language to express relationships. Practice Speaking (2): Expressing relations using generic language. Writing: Analyze types of process and identify complexation. Write a description of a process based on notes from reading and research.

10. 10
    Week 10

    OBSERVATION

    Listening: Use visuals to understand/explain key concepts; take notes on multiple related processes. Speaking: Analyze a process text and develop material for a discussion; participate in a seminar discussion. Writing: Use Chronology language (expressing events in time using verbs, nouns, and adverbials). Vocabulary: Word formation (2) (single and multiple suffixes); begin Research Project (5) (making a clear argument).

11. 11
    Week 11

    RESEARCH

    Academic Focus: Research and reporting. Reading: Establish reading purpose; employ appropriate reading techniques; report on reading in spoken and written form. Writing: Use feedback to edit a text for language accuracy; develop a personal proofreading checklist.

12. 12
    Week 12

    Final Test

    Consolidate all learning goals from Units 7-12 (and 1-6). Speaking: Plan a research presentation; understand/consider the audience; prepare and give a research presentation. Practice Style (4): Informal and idiomatic language (for lectures). Vocabulary: Review and research vocabulary.