Course description:
Format: Online / up to 15 students
Duration: 60 hours
Content: Referencing conventions, Academic language, Extended assignments structure/analysis, Academic writing sub- skills, Note-taking techniques, Understanding the relation between reading purpose and reading efficiency, Practicing in the sub-skills of skimming for an overall idea and scanning for specific information,  Distinguishing between main, subordinate ideas and illustrations, and digression; Developing reading efficiency, Pronunciation, Articulation, Preparation for delivering presentations, Academic speaking sub-skills, Listening for gist, Detecting signposts; Listening for details; Inferring meaning