Intensive English Bridging Course (1711- 1103)
I. Course Description
This is an intensive English language bridging course for the post-graduate students of science, intended to enhance and improve the language competency of the students to international standards. This course is designed to prepare the students to use English language in their Master’s Course. This course intends to develop language competency in four basic language skills (i.e., listening, speaking, reading, and writing) besides giving insights into fundamentals of grammar and core IELTS vocabulary. The material of the course is meticulously selected for this course from the internationally recognised English language testing system, i.e., IELTS in order to introduce, train, and develop the students’ competency in using English language to international standards. This is a one-year course and is delivered in four quarters of 8 weeks each (32 weeks). The number of contact hours is 20 per week.
Note
At the end of the course, it is mandatory for the students to take the IELTS test conducted by the British Council and obtain 5.5 band score to secure admission in the Master’s Course. This Intensive Course is just a preparatory course for the IELTS.
II. Course Objectives
a.Listening and Speaking
This course aims at helping students to:
- Predict and comprehend content using pre-listening skills, visuals and background knowledge.
- Use while-listening and post-listening skills to extract relevant information from a text.
- Grasp key vocabulary meaning from listening activities.
- Create a presentation about a given topic.
- Discuss and debate an issue or idea critically and convincingly.
- Plan and give a set of instructions, directions or survey questions to classmates.
- Use descriptive strategies in talking about an object, people or device.
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Evaluate a problem and suggest solutions.
b.Reading and Writing
This course aims at helping students to:
- Make predictions about content using relevant pre-reading skills, visuals and background knowledge.
- Use reading strategies to extract information such as the main ideas and supporting details of a text.
- Deduce key vocabulary items using contextual information.
- Distinguish different text types.
- Apply the correct writing conventions, such as capitalisation and punctuation, in their own writing.
- Compose a coherent paragraph by eliminating irrelevancies.
- Effectively write different types of paragraph, such as persuasive, descriptive, process
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Identify and correct grammatical mistakes in sentences.
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Correctly construct different types of sentence based on to the writing task in hand.
III. Learning Resources
Scott, N.M. (2014) Unlock Listening and Speaking Skills 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bayir, S.D. (2014) Unlock Listening and Speaking Skills 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ostrowska, S. (2014) Unlock Reading and Writing Skills 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O’Neill, R. (2014) Unlock Reading and Writing Skills 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Azar, B. S. (2003) Fundamentals of English Grammar. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson Education.
