2022/23 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5913M Teaching Academic English

15 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Dr Simon Green
Email: S.J.M.Green@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Jan to 31 Mar View Timetable

Year running 2022/23

Module replaces

EDUC5960M Issues in EAP

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module is for teachers working in, or wishing to work in, academic English contexts such as university language centres. The module will help you understand what distinguishes academic discourse from other kinds and so understand the kinds of 'literacies' - skills, knowledge and technical abilities - that tertiary level students need to have, and understand how English for Academic Purposes teaching can help learners acquire those skills.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to critically discuss and, where appropriate, apply to practice, the following topics:

- Definitions of EAP
- Academic discourse
- Approaches to the description of academic discourse
- Approaches to EAP course design
- Approaches to the teaching of written practices in academia
- Approaches to the teaching of oral practices in academic
- Approaches to assessment in EAP

Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes will include:

- Understandings of the nature of pedagogic academic discourse ie the academic discourse undergraduates and postgraduates engage in, and thus the kinds of practices that define academic literacies
- Understandings of what EAP (EGAP and ESAP) is and can be
- Understandings of issues to do with teaching and assessing EAP

Skills outcomes
Students completing this module will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities:
- to engage critically in the development of professional/diciplinary boundaries and norms
- to make effective decisions in complex and unpredictable situations
- to learn independently

Syllabus

This is an indicative list of topics that will be covered:

- The nature of academic literacies
- EAP Course Design
- EAP and Written Communication
- EAP and Oral Communication
- Assessment in EAP

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	5	2.00	10.00
Tutorial	1	0.50	0.50
Independent online learning hours			30.00
Private study hours			109.50
Total Contact hours			10.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

Independent online learning:
- Pre-sessional viewing of pre-recorded lectures, pre-reading, and study group discussion tasks: 6 hours per week = 30 hours

Private study:
- Independent wider reading: 5 hours per week = 25 hours
- Assignment reading and preparation: 84.5 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Formative feedback is given informally on performance in in-class and out-of-class tasks and formally on draft submissions of assessed work.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Reflective log	Individual reflection 500 words	25.00
Presentation	Group digital presentation: 10 slide narrated PowerPoint	75.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Assessment as for all School of Education Level 5 modules, will be by assignment. Assignments will ask participants to consider the relevance and implications of one or more aspects of the issues that have been discussed in the module for their own TESOL context.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 29/04/2022 15:28:43

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