Overview
In Development- Publication July 2015
Core activities: 3 hours
Preparing for study: Academic culture, language and assessment introduces the key concepts of the course including academic conventions and expectations, academic communities and self-evaluation.
Syllabus
- Welcome to the English for Academic Studies programme
- Academic acculturation for students studying in an English medium environment
- Academic communities of practice – what they are, how they develop, and becoming a member of the academic community
- Academic values – disinterestedness, freedom, academic integrity, ethical research practices, social responsibility
- The currency of academia – knowledge, its conceptualisation, construction and transformation (across the disciplines) – contributions to knowledge
- The autonomous self – self-evaluation and self assessment managing one’s own learning and setting one’s own goals for language learning and development
- The work of academics in the different disciplines – how concepts of knowledge translate into different research methods
- Academic assignments, academic assessments, assessment criteria – understanding the demands of postgraduate study and academics’ expectations of student work
- Link to university’s own assessment tools, tests and exam practice resources
Author: Dr Arthur McNeill
Director of the Center for Language Education and Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Reviewer: Jamie Rinder
Lecturer in Language and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology