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

 

STABEL course

This course is offered for students on the Study Abroad with English Language (STABEL) programme. It is compulsory for students who achieved less than 70% in their Centre for English Language and Foundation Studies pre-sessional assessment.

Aims

The principal aims of the course are:

• to provide ongoing development in English language and study skills to enable students to cope with the demands of their subject-specific academic studies in other university departments
•  to complement the general aims of the corequisite unit, LANG10031
• to provide language specific input and training in areas of difficulty
• to develop learner autonomy in future academic work.

Learning outcomes

Students should have sufficient experience in (tutor-guided) self-assessment of ongoing (subject-specific) written work to be able to recognise their individual key problem areas and take steps towards remedying them without supervision. Problem areas will include: language structures (grammatical/lexical), discourse structures (coherence/cohesion at paragraph to full assignment levels), academic genre (inappropriate style / referencing conventions), cognitive clarity (ability to understand given information and adapt it in different communicative contexts).

Assessment

• A written test in the final class, designed to measure the students’ ability to produce a coherent academic-style argument to timed writing criteria (40% of overall mark).
• A 15-minute oral presentation of a departmental subject-specific area, in one-to-one tutorial setting, followed by Q&A to establish clarity of student understanding and communicative ability (40% of overall mark).
• Submission of a portfolio of draft written work on longer subject-specific written assignments, to include at least the first draft of an essay, bibliographic details of key reading sources and a set of notes taken from one of the sources (20% of overall mark).