English for Academic Purposes
CRICOS CODE: 115434G
Designed for students from non-English-speaking backgrounds, this program enhances your academic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills to help you succeed in university or college.
Develop critical thinking, research, and presentation skills while mastering academic language and conventions
Summative assessments are completed in Weeks 5 and 10.
Students have the best chance of achieving the learning outcomes tested in the Summative assessments if they enter in Week 1 and Week 6.
Before commencing classes in the EAP course, students need to have:
- either completed Upper Intermediate in the General English course or
- be able to otherwise prove a B2 proficiency in English.
If students have not completed Upper Intermediate, they can present a recognised test score to gain direct entry to a course.
If they have a B1 level equivalent in a well-recognised English test, including IELTS, PTE Academic, TOEFL, or Cambridge, they will also be able to enter the course.
Students can enter in either Week 1 or Week 6 of the cycle. Monday or the first teaching day of the week in any week of the year, except for the two weeks over Christmas/New Year. The minimum enrolment period is five weeks.
International students: ALTEC College offers various intakes throughout the year. International students can enter the course at any of these intakes, subject to meeting entry requirements.
The intakes are also published in ALTEC College’s Academic Calendar.
Program Structure
20 weeks of English for Academic Purposes. Each week there are 20 face-to-face contact hours, with additional homework given for each day of class.
Students that enroll in 10 weeks of the course are eligible to take a maximum of two weeks study break.
Note: There is a 2 week mandatory holiday period over the Christmas/New Year period.
Learning Outcomes
These Course Objectives are broken down into Learning Outcomes based on the key areas of competency: speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. Academic skills are embedded into each of the categories, e.g. aspects of academic essay writing are incorporated into the learning outcomes relating to ‘writing’.
The Learning Outcomes are more detailed and specific statements that express what students will be able to do at the end of the course. Learner outcomes are phrased in learner oriented terms and students are expected to be aware of these at the beginning and throughout the course. In each level, students and teachers aim to complete these Learning Outcomes to ensure that they reach the standard of that level.
The progression students are expected to make in the learning outcomes varies at each level in accordance with the CEFR level that students are studying at. These learning outcomes are coded as F for EAP Foundation and A for EAP Advanced.
Course Objective
The curriculum, syllabus and assessments are designed to help students achieve both Course Objectives and the more detailed and measurable Learning Outcomes.
The Course Objectives in the English for Academic Purposes course are to enable students:
- To develop the academic skills necessary to participate effectively in university at a diploma level or higher level course in an English speaking country
- To improve their overall English proficiency in terms of the four macro skills
- To develop awareness of sociocultural knowledge relating to communication in English as used with native speakers and with other non-native speakers where English is used as a lingua franca to prepare students for higher education contexts with local and international students
- To develop core knowledge of the academic vocabulary and grammar commonly used in Academic contexts
- To develop the academic skills necessary to participate effectively in university at a diploma level or higher level course in an English speaking country
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