In-sessional, Teacher training and Summer programme

Academic year programmes

• In-sessional programme
  • Erasmus/Socrates
  • STABEL
  • Students with overseas fees status
  • Timetables
• Pre-masters in English for Academic Purposes
• International Foundation Programme

Teacher training

• Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Summer programmes

• Pre-sessional academic English
• Intensive general English
• Subsidised intensive general English

 

English for Business and Professional Purposes

This is a 20-credit course for post intermediate level students who wish to develop their English language knowledge and skills in business and professional contexts.

Aims

The principal aims of the course are:

• to develop grammatical competence, focusing on accuracy in the use of key linguistic structures, through analysis and practice in relevant areas of grammatical difficulty
• to develop the ability to deal with the production of effective written texts, focusing on linguistic features of widely occurring professional communication genres
• to develop the ability to operate with confidence in a number of widely occurring speech situations in the professional world
• to develop the ability to deal with authentic texts in English, with a particular focus on the interface between current affairs and the international business world
• to develop fluency in spoken English in a variety of settings, with a particular focus on participation in discussions and seminars, as well as social communication.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, learners should:

• have consolidated and reinforced their grammatical competence and lexical resources in a business context
• have attained a sounder grasp of the relationship between linguistic form and meaning, as well as a greater facility for dealing with contemporary professional discourse in English
• have enhanced their ability to operate effectively within key professional genres
• have attained a greater understanding of higher and lower level linguistic features of extended texts in the field
• have enhanced their ability to participate in the social communication characteristic of professionals in their everyday interactions.

Results

Students will be issued with a transcript in June by their home departments showing all their results, including their in-sessional English results. Provisional results can be provided for Erasmus students whose home University requires their results earlier.