| CODE | IFS0426 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | English Grammar | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | International School for Foundation Studies | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | IFS0426 will help students wishing to join the foundation programme to engage with a variety of grammatical structures in English and to complete a variety of academic tasks that will allow them to demonstrate their ability to construct accurate structures is English at this level. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to introduce a variety of academic text types to students with no-to-little prior experience of engaging with the academic requirmements of accurately produced written communication according to the rules of grammar and grammatical composition. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Distinguish between a variety of grammatical structures in different academic text types; - identify their form, meaning, and use in the context of academic expression. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - complete a variety of task tpyes from gap fill to complete re-writing of sentences; - write the correct verbal forms; - use reporting verbs accurately; - correct systematic errors in texts; - check spelling and punctuation. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Teacher's notes. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: High school certificate | ||||||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study & Tutorial | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Ruth Bellizzi |
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