Week 1: Getting started
- Introductions
- Using this course
- Active study
- Knowledge creation
- Reflecting
week 1
To do list
- Register for the e-course
- Download the 150 page PDF workbook
- Print and bind the workbook
- Read and do the Week 1 tasks in the book
- Do online activities in the e-course
- Attend the online session
Week 2: Being a student
- Synergy
- Study buddy
- Brainstorming
- Six degrees of separation
- How to win friends …
week 2
Each week, students:
- Read and do the tasks in the book
- Do online activities in the e-course
- Share with your study buddy
- Attend the online session
Week 3: General English
- About English
- About words
- Online dictionaries
- Improving pronunciation
- Using SkELL
- Collocation
- Taxonomies, hierarchies and paradigms
week 3
A wordsketch by SkELL showing verbs that collocate with experiment.
Week 4: Academic vocabulary
- Academic words in texts
- Versatile Academic Wordlist
- Using CorpusMate
- Grammar Patterns
- How to study academic vocabulary
week 4
Concordance of intervention from CorpusMate.
Week 5: Six Pillars of Vocabulary
- The properties of words
- Modes of study
- Higher and lower order thinking skills
- Product and process
week 5
Week 6: Learning language from language
- Genre and register
- Using VersaText
- Features of texts
- Word constellations
- Consensus view of language
- Cherry picking
week 6
Week 7: Mid-term break
- Revise
- Catch up
- Read ahead
- Reflect
week 7
Catch-up time
Week 8: Chunks, hedging and triangulation
- Chunking
- Sentence stems
- Academic Phrasebank
- Hedging
- Triangulation
week 8
Week 9: Learning from texts
- The nature of text
- Top-down and bottom-up preparation
- Sections of texts
- Academic structures
- Collocation
- Discovery learning
week 9
Week 10: Key features of academic texts
- Objectivity
- Gender neutral language
- Post-modification
- Subjunctive
week 10
Week 11: Scientific Concepts
- Humanism
- Observation
- Hypothesis
- Data analysis
- Peer review
- Correlation and causation
week 11
Week 12: Cognitive biases
- Cognitive dissonance
- Confirmation bias
- Recency bias
- Social desirability bias
- Anchoring
week 12
Course round up
- Overview
- Feedback
- Farewell and good luck!
