ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
IL1PPATN-Processing Academic Texts
Module Provider: International Study and Language Institute
Number of credits: 0 [0 ECTS credits]
Level:4
Terms in which taught: Spring term module
Pre-requisites:
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Current from: 2023/4
Module Convenor: Mrs Sarah Harford
Email: s.k.harford@reading.ac.uk
Type of module:
Summary module description:
As a component of the Pre-sessional English Language Programme (PSE), this module aims to help students develop their receptive and productive academic language skills (listening and reading and writing) for successful engagement with their university degree programme study. Alongside Communicating Academic Ideas (IL1PCAIN), it prepares students for entry onto the next PSE module, Integrated Academic Language Skills 1 (N.B. the final six weeks of the PSE consist of the exit modules, Integrated Academic Language Skills 4 (IL1PIALS4N) and Academic Practices and Genres (IL1PAPGPN/IL1PAPGUN ) which summatively assess students' readiness to start their degree programmes.)
Aims:
The module aims to help students develop their receptive academic language skills for successful engagement with their university degree programme study.
Assessable learning outcomes:
Because this module is delivered early within in a Pre-sessional English programme, Learning Outcomes measure progress towards, rather than programme exit levels of, academic language proficiency and skill.
By the end of the module it is expected that students will be better able to:
LO 1 | Demonstrate critical awareness of development and progress, in skills and language by collecting, selecting and reflecting on an appropriate range of completed written and spoken artefacts presented as a portfolio of the term’s work. |
LO 2 | Exercise control and integration of appropriate text type grammatical structures into their writing e.g. using subordinate clauses for a cause/effect paragraph. |
LO 3 | Demonstrate a developing range of appropriate vocabulary e.g. differentiating everyday usage and more formal academic vocabulary, to express ideas comprehensively in their written texts.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý |
LO 4 | Organise writing into paragraphs with a main idea, connecting supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. |
LO 5 | Mediate written information by synthesisingand commenting on ideas from multiple sources into their own spoken or written communication, utilising emerging summary and paraphrasing skills. |
LO 6 | Demonstrate an awareness of text organisation and features in different genres of text and use this understanding to locate key information |
LO 7 | Read for different purposes, adapting approach to different texts. |
Additional outcomes:
By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be better able to:
LO8 | Exercise autonomy and initiative in time management. |
LO9 | Use a variety of strategies and resources for the purpose of independent language study. |