Language for Economics and Finance(6 weeks)

Year 1

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme, students should:
- Be able to use and manipulate written and spoken academic language to suit a clear communicative purpose, including having a wide lexical resource, a range of appropriate structures and the ability to use these coherently, accurately and fluently [MO1]
- Be able to demonstrate an awareness of subject specific genre, discourse and rhetorical function; be able to make appropriate choices in relation to audience and purpose at whole text, paragraph and sentence level. [MO2];
- Be able to demonstrate an ability to follow subject specific academic conventions in both spoken and written tasks, such as referencing, citations, synthesising sources and their own argument, meeting task requirements, turn taking and building collaborative understanding [MO3]
- Demonstrate a critical approach to their own work and the work of others through use of a range of sources, counter-argument and/ or evaluation; development of an argument with a clear position [MO3]
- Be able to work effectively with others on a discipline specific task; [MO4]
- Be able to critically reflect on their own learning and demonstrate awareness of resources and techniques they could employ to continue their own development [MO4]
- Be able to communicate an awareness of the cultural and ethical issues of academic study within the field of economics and finance; [MO4]

Transferable (key) skills

By the end of the programme, students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities:
- The skills necessary to be able to critically reflect on their own learning and demonstrate awareness of resources and techniques they could employ to continue their own development;
- The ability to work effectively with others on an academic task within their field.

Assessment

The final assessments will be based specifically on the core areas of academic language and subject specific literacy. They will ensure that all 4 skills of speaking, writing, reading and listening are covered appropriately for the discipline requirements and as required of a Secure English Language Test (SELT). This programme will also assess students’ developing ability to present a critical argument in the context of an independent academic study using appropriate language.