English for Academic Purposes

Entry Requirements/ Participants

This course is particularly suitable for people about to start postgraduate studies in TESOL, Language Teaching, or Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, but can also be taken by students about to follow other language-related courses. It can be taken either as a single course or following on from a General EAP course.

This course is one of the Specialist EAP courses that complete our EAP Programme. For an overview of the whole EAP Programme please click here.

Course

The emphasis of the course is on the development of language skills relevant to work at a postgraduate level. Particular attention is paid to academic writing, listening/reading and notetaking, and seminar skills.

Content and Approach
Most sessions are based on core applied linguistic and methodological topics, e.g. discourse analysis, gender and language, individual differences in language learning (exact topics to be selected by participants). Participants extend their knowledge in those areas and at the same time experience the study modes they will encounter in a British postgraduate setting:
- academic writing
- reading and discussion of key topics based on texts from books and journals
- individual projects based on journal articles
- seminar practice linked with the individual projects
- comprehension and notetaking from live and recorded lectures
- group projects, leading to a Final Day conference