ACADEMIC ENGLISH

at FPT-Greenwich University
§ Tailored course for Students in Business Major
§ Provide Academic Skills that help students deal with
BTECT assignments successfully

§ Integrating Critical Thinking with Academic

Reading and Writing Skills
§ 105 hours with TWO levels

§ Level 1: AEG113- 60 hours

§ Integrating Skill Course- Focusing on Writing Skills

§ Level 2: AEG114- 45 hours

§ Integrating Skill Course- Focusing on Reading Skills
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Intergrating Skill Course

• Assignments
Academic • Slides
Writing Main skill • Reports
• Research
• Literature reviews

• Read different types of

Academic Critical articles, journals
Reading Thinking • Think critically to decide
information to use in
your own paper
• Make outlines
TWO Supporting Skills • Create your own ideas
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helps students deal with….

Reading Thinking Writing

• Articles • Critically • Academic essays

• Journals • Make questions for • Literature reviews
• Research paper yourself to answer • Academic
• Books • Find reasons for an presentations
• Documents, reports issue • Research
• Search evidence • Response paper
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What are covered in AE113?

• Well-organized
paragraphs with
academic features
• Harvard Style
• Academic essays with
academic introductions Academic Styles • Reliable sources
and conclusions • Incorporating others’
• Topic sentences, thesis • Academic vocabulary: ideas
statements, other words and phrases • Paraphrasing and
academic arguments – • Ways to avoid mistakes summarizing
supporting and in academic writing • Plagiarism and turn-it-in
opposing • Common grammar and
structures in academic Citing&
Common Writing Referencing
Assignments writing
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Intergrating Skill Course

• Fundamental Reading Skills

Supporting
Skill 1 • Course book: University Success READING

Supporting • Critical Thinking Skills

Skill 2 • Course book: University Success READING

• Review academic writing style

Academic • Research Projects
Writing • Course book: ADVANCE in Academic
Writing 2
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Intergrating Skill Course
Fundamental Critical Thinking
Reading Skills Academic Writing
Skills

§ Active Reading § Distinguish Facts from § Understand research

§ Main Ideas & Opinions § Integrate Critical
Supporting Details § Understand implication Thinking, Academic
§ Cohesion and inference reading and Writing
§ Fluency and Accuracy § Evaluate evidence and § Apply academic features
§ Visuals argumentation in writing: vocabulary,
§ Synthesize information style, others’ ideas ,
from several sources citations and structure
§ Understand definitions § Do a research project
and classifications
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ASSESSMENTS
• Homework completion • 45-minuteTest
• Class task completion • 3passageswith24questions
• Two writing tasks • Fundamentalreadingskills

ProgressTest 1
Study Participation
20%
30%

ProgressTest 2
Final Assessment 20%
30%

• ResearchProject • 45-minuteTest
• 800->1000word • 3passageswith24questions
• Aresearchquestion, athesis • Critical ThinkingSkills
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Course Completion

Class Attendance Requirement: 75 percent

Course Completion

Final Assessment Score > or = 5.0

Overall Mark >5.0 or = 5.0 ( scores of Progress Tests1,2, Final

Assessment , and Study Participation)

* Second attempt for the Final Assessment (Research Project) if the first
submission is graded below 5.0 or Overall Mark is below 5.0 or Both
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Students’ Tasks

4
• Use a dictionary to look up new words or
3 explanations to help you undersatand more

• Complete all the tasks that assign by the teacher in

2 the previous session

• Read instructions of supporting skills on the session

and do examples or exercises below
1
• Download study materials-session (pdf) and
session slides (pdf) before class
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Course Book
Part 1,2: Session 1->18 Part 3: Session 20->26
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Course Book

Session 1->8 & Progress Test 1

Session 10->18 & Progress Test 2

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Unit structures
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Unit structures
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Unit structures
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Session 27,28, 29

Final Assessment
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Teachers’ Tasks

4 § Give students more attempts of

assessments if they wish to have
better results.
3 § Design learning activities in pairs
or in groups, focussing on skills.
2 § Assign tasks /customized tasks to
students both in class and at home,
grade students’ work

1 § Give instructions of skills in each

session and give exercise answer
keys to students in class
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Aims of Achieve higher

Academic skills
Academic scores for
in English styles
English Subject assignments

Fulfill a dream of
University Degrees

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