You are learning English now and want to improve your academic skills in English. How should you do? Do you have any good ideas? What are you doing now? What aspects of English do you want to learn or what skills do you focus on? Listening, reading, speaking or writing?
What is academic English?
I hope you will learn it by doing it in this class.
The Syllabus
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Step 1
1.What is academic English?
2.How to read books?
3.How to use computers?
Step 2
4.What study skills do you need?
5.How to take notes?
6.How to find good resources?
Step 3
7.How to ask questions?
8.How to discuss?
Step 4
9.How to prepare for your talk?
10.How to make a presentation?
Step 5
11.How to work with your colleagues?
12.How to study by yourself?
13.How to reflect on your study?
Step 6
14.What is your purpose to study English?
15.Summary
Assignment1: Read and discuss this article.
Ancient Japanese hunter-gatherers made ceramic fish cookers before rise of farming
Ancient leftovers indicate that the earliest pottery was used by hunter-gatherers for cooking, thousands of years before farming communities began heating their food in vessels.
Chemical analyses of charred food clinging to pottery fragments from sites across Japan indicate that hunter-gatherers who lived there between 15,300 and 11,200 years ago cooked freshwater or marine animals in ceramic vessels, say bioarchaeologist Oliver Craig of the University of York in England and his colleagues.
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- http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349564/description/Pottery_cooked_from_the_start
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Assignment 2
Find an article in your study field and show it to us, preparing handouts in your presentation.
Please check your topic
Assignment 3
Listen to Steve Job's speech and give us your thoughts of what he said. Please email me.
Assignment 4
Let's think about your study skills. Do you understand how to listen to the lecture, take notes, or email? Please check the following website and learn study skills tips.
Study Skills
Next time you will have a group discussion about study skills.
Discussion points:
- What do you think about Steve Jobs' speech?
- What are your interesting topics when reading Study Skills?
- What are important study skills in your academic field? Is English necessary for you? Why do you think so?
Assignment 5
Group presentation 2
You will prepare for your presentation topics in your group. You need to have 4 copies for group members including for me.
Assignment 6
Your research topic and research planning
You will think about your research topic and research planning. If you need, you will ask your classmates. Please email me about your topic and plan.
Assignment 7
Presentation. You will give a 15 minute presentation including questions and answers. You will be evaluated by your classmates.
Assignment 8
Submission of Academic essay.
