Overview
Academic contacts
Offerings
DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2020-ONGOING
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2019-2019
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2020-ONGOING
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2019-2019
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2020-ONGOING
Other learning activities
Learning activities
Learning outcomes
Demonstrate an understanding of the various oral and written skills necessary to
communicate in English in an academic and workplace context;
Demonstrate an understanding of discourse grammar and structures underlying a range of contexts;
Demonstrate an understanding of the key features and values of a western tertiary education system reflected in English language practices;
Produce a variety of oral and written texts;
Critically analyse authentic texts in English, including assessment tasks, relevant to an academic and professional context;
Successfully engage in an academic and simulated professional context with appropriate communication and interactional strategies.
Assessments
Additional information
· Introduction
o Outlining aims, assessment and expectations
o Expressing agreement/disagreement
o Comparative structures
o Subject verb agreement
o Question forms
· Business:
o Subordinating/Correlative conjunctions
o Making comparisons
o Articles
o Prepositions of place/time
o Making plans
o Phrasal verbs
· Information Technology:
o Verb forms (gerund vs infinitive)
o Gerund phrases
o Modal verbs (ability/possibility/advice/permission
o Hedging language
o Creating rules
· Communication discipline:
o Conditional clauses (1st/2nd/3rd/zero/mixed)
o Expressing dreams/regret/ hypothetical situations
o Reported speech/ reporting information
o Embedded questions
o Polite questioning
· Psychology
o Relative clauses
o Appositive phrases
o Sentence reduction
o Active vs passive voice
o Participle clauses
o Expressing cause and effect
o Nominalisation
To undertake study in this unit, students will need internet access for accessing the Learning Management System which will contain online material (assessment and supplementary material) used for this unit.