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This refresher course aims to provide additional English language support to Year 2 and Year 3 Senior Year Entrants for their study in HSUHK. This course comprises an online self-study component focusing on accurate grammar usage and vocabulary expansion; and a face-to-face component on enhancing students’ language skills for their academic study. This course also aims to develop students’ language abilities in fulfilling the requirement of language competency of HSUHK.
Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:
a. develop the ability to produce a wide variety of accurate English syntactic patterns for both writing and speaking,
b. expand the productive lexis in relevant topic areas,
c. employ suitable language strategies to facilitate their academic study,
d. recognise the common errors made and provide an opportunity to address these errors.
1. Online Grammar Usage and Vocabulary Expansion
1.1 The basic English syntactic rules
1.2 Complementation
1.3 Subordination
1.4 Organising Information and Reporting
1.5 Thematic Vocabulary and Academic Vocabulary
2. Effective Reading Strategies
2.1 Purposeful reading
– Skimming
– Scanning
– Global understanding of the text
– Identifying key points and supporting ideas: (Thesis statement, Topic sentences and Supporting arguments)
2.2 Read to Write: Understand the structure of good writing
3. Effective Academic Writing Skills
3.1 Structure of essay writing (Introduction and thesis statements; topic sentences and supporting details and relevant examples; conclusion)
3.2 Correctness of effective writing: Identifying common errors in writing
4. Effective Listening Strategies
4.1 Developing strategies for interpreting academic texts
4.2 Listening in a timed context
5. Effective Speaking Strategies
5.1 Developing skills for presenting comments on the correctness of a text and participating in group discussions
1. Participation (20%)
2. Group assessment (20%)
3. Examination (60%)
Reference materials:
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Baker, A. (2006). Ship or sheep?: An intermediate pronunciation course. Cambridge University Press.
Burton, G. (2013). Presenting: Deliver academic presentations with confidence. Collins.
Cusack, B., & McCarter, Sam. (2007). Listening & speaking skills. Macmillan Education.
Espeseth, M. (2004). Academic listening encounters: Listening, note taking, and discussion: Human behaviour.
Foley, M., & Hall, D. (2015). MyGrammarLab Advanced C1/C2. Pearson Education.
Geyte, E. (2014). Writing: Learn to write better academic essays. Collins.
Hart, S. (2018). English exposed: Common mistakes made by Chinese speakers. Hong Kong University Press.
Hewings, M. (2005). Advanced Grammar in Use. (2nd Ed). Cambridge University Press.
Hewings, M., & McCarthy, M. (2012). Cambridge academic English: An integrated skills course for EAP. Upper-intermediate. Cambridge University Press.
Hill, M., & Storey, A. (2000). Speak easy! Oral presentation skills in English for academic and professional use (Version 1.0. ed.). Hong Kong University Press.
O’Dell, F., & McCarthy, M. (2017). English vocabulary in use (Advanced) (3rd ed). Cambridge University Press.
O’Dell, F., & McCarthy, M. (2017). English collocations in use: Advanced (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Legg, M., Pat, K., Roberts, S., Welland, R., Chan, L., Chan, L., & Tsang, W. L. (2017). Academic English: Skills for success. Hong Kong University Press.
Murphy, R. (2004). English grammar in use: A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students of English: With answers (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Pallant, A. (2012). English for academic study: Writing. Garnet Education.
Sarosy, P., & Sherak, K. (2013). Lecture ready: Strategies for academic listening and speaking. Oxford University Press.
Seely, J. (2005). The Oxford guide to effective writing and speaking (2nd ed.). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Seely, J. (2005). The Oxford guide to effective writing and speaking (2nd ed.). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Slaght, J. (2012). English for academic study: Reading. Garnet Education.
Swan, M., & Walter, C. (2011). Oxford English grammar course advanced: With answers. Oxford University Press.
Vince, M. (2008). Macmillan English grammar in context. Macmillan Education.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/pronunciation
British Council. (2020). Listening.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening
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https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference
British Council. (2020). Skills. https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills
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https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/
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Longman. (2020). Listening and pronunciation.
https://www.ldoceonline.com/exercise/section-listening-and-pronunciation/
Monash University. (2020). Oral presentation.
https://www.monash.edu/rlo/assignment-samples/arts/oral-presentation
TED Conferences. (2020). TEDEd. https://ed.ted.com/
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https://edx.hsu.edu.hk/
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https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/
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