QEL004 IELTS Advanced
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| Unit code: | QEL004 |
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| Credit points: | 40 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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Unit Outline: 10 Week EAP Teaching Period 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | QEL004 |
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| Credit points: | 40 |
Overview
Designed for international students who need to upgrade their English proficiency level to meet University entry requirements for those programs that require an IELTS Academic Module score of 7.0 or higher as an entry pre-requisite. Students in this program will need to apply for an IELTS Academic Module examination to be taken at the end of the program.
Content
Language and Skills
Speaking
By the end of the course students should be able to demonstrate an ability to understand and use a wide range of language to a level of proficiency at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Providing responses appropriate to all sections of the IELTS Academic Module Speaking Module
- Planning ideas and thoughts for responses
- Fluency in presenting responses
- Responding appropriately to questions and prompts
- Appropriateness of register
- Extended relevant discourse and analysis of concrete and abstract topics
- Strategies for dealing with familiar and unfamiliar topics
Listening
By the end of the course students should demonstrate an ability to use the following skills to understand a range of authentic and adapted monologue and interactions between speakers without visual reference to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Pre-listening strategies for success in responding to the IELTS Academic Module Listening Test module
- Filling in the IELTS test answer sheet whilst listening to a spoken text in order to complete a range of test task types in the IELTS Academic Module Listening module in a set time
- Listening for specific items in order to complete a set task in the IELTS Academic Module Listening module
- Note-taking techniques
- Identifying attitude and intention conveyed by speakers
- Listening for global meaning
- Listening for detail
- Identifying the roles and relationships between speakers
- Identifying salient points for answers and notes
- Identifying a range of functional language exponents in a range of formal and informal spoken texts
- Identifying appropriate listening strategies
- Deducing meaning of unknown lexical items from context
Writing
By the end of the course students should demonstrate an ability to write to a level of proficiency at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Producing a range of texts with a structure appropriate to the IELTS Academic Module Writing Test module
- Producing a range of texts with format appropriate to the IELTS Academic Module Writing Test module
- Producing a range of texts relating to specific tasks as required for the IELTS Academic Module Writing Module
- Producing a range of texts with the appropriate register
- Producing a range of texts, well-organised at the sentence, paragraph, and whole text level
- Producing a range of texts with appropriate cohesive features including referencing and linking devices
- Producing texts with evidence of self-correction techniques
- Producing texts in response to a set task within a specified time frame
- Producing texts in response to a set task within a specified word count
- Producing texts with paraphrased content
- Producing texts in which a conclusion or recommendation is drawn
- Producing texts with appropriate spelling and punctuation
- Recognising a range of texts and the features outlined above
Reading
By the end of the course students should demonstrate an ability to read and comprehend a variety of texts to a level of proficiency at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Comprehending the requirements of a range of IELTS Academic Module test items
- Reading and understanding of a wide range of texts, in particular, those texts commonly appearing in the Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking IELTS Academic Module test components
- Predicting from headings, pictures, graphs and other non-verbal clues
- Global understanding of texts
- Identify main points for summarisation in written or spoken text
- Identify register, style, and intended audience of a given text
- Deduce meaning of unknown lexical items from grammatical and contextual clues
- Identify and understand positioning of author
- Identify and understand a wide range of discourse features/ markers relating to linking, time, referencing etc.
- Identify and understand different patterns of text organisation
- Identify and understand inference
- Identify and understand the difference between fact and opinion
- Identify the source of a text
- Identify and notate relevant points from a reading
- Improve reading rate and accuracy of comprehension through timing of reading speed
- Improve critical reading and thinking skills
Test-taking and Study Skills
By the end of the course students should demonstrate ability in a wide range of study skills to a level at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT, particularly skills pertaining to the IELTS Academic Module Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing Test modules:
- Format of the four sections of the IELTS Academic Modules
- Question types found in the four sections of the IELTS Academic Modules
- Appropriate responses for the four sections of the IELTS Academic Modules
- Time management
- Test taking strategies
- Analysis of test task requirements
- Response transferral to an answer sheet
- Brainstorming
- Text planning skills
- Understanding patterns of text organisation
- Drafting and redrafting of oral and written texts
- Self-correction of texts
- Critical thinking
- Goal setting
- Learning styles
- Techniques for memorisation
- Vocabulary retention
- Familiarisation with QUT intranet and student systems
Grammar and Vocabulary
Students will receive extensive instruction in the analysis and use of a range of level-appropriate grammatical and lexical structures. This language will be presented in a variety of written and spoken contexts common to the IELTS Academic Test.
Guided Independent Learning (GIL)
GIL material is located on the Cambridge Learning Management System (LMS) and is comprised of:
- An extensive online grammar practice program, divided into the key structures taught for each weeks’ lessons in the core text (Please see “Resources” below)
- The key vocabulary in each course book module is extended by including online practice in collocations, word formation, usage in different contexts etc.
- Pronunciation lessons with nationality-specific online exercises linked to the key vocabulary and grammar of each week.
- The bulk of homework made available and marked online along with formative assessment submissions and feedback.
- Analysis of IELTS-style reading and listening texts.
- IELTS Test practice.
- Feedback platforms for teacher-student communication.
Learning Approaches
Proficiency is developed through the presentation and practice of relevant language content and skills in small classes (average 15 and maximum 18 students). In pedagogical terms, the course should incorporate a range of student-centred approaches to teaching, such as Task-Based Learning (TBL); The Communicative Approach; Guided Discovery; Flipped learning; The Lexical Approach.
Assessment
Overview
The means of assessing the extent to which the desired outcomes were achieved in respect of each learner: All forms of assessment items are based on outcomes as specified in the syllabus. Each learner’s success in achieving the desired outcomes is determined through a combination of means including:
- Formative assessment tasks comprising specific content-based tasks in weeks 1 -10
- Teacher monitoring of performance in class
- Execution of homework and GIL tasks
- Attendance
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Text and online material
Unit Outline: 10 Week EAP Teaching Period 3 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | QEL004 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 40 |
Overview
Designed for international students who need to upgrade their English proficiency level to meet University entry requirements for those programs that require an IELTS Academic Module score of 7.0 or higher as an entry pre-requisite. Students in this program will need to apply for an IELTS Academic Module examination to be taken at the end of the program.
Content
Language and Skills
Speaking
By the end of the course students should be able to demonstrate an ability to understand and use a wide range of language to a level of proficiency at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Providing responses appropriate to all sections of the IELTS Academic Module Speaking Module
- Planning ideas and thoughts for responses
- Fluency in presenting responses
- Responding appropriately to questions and prompts
- Appropriateness of register
- Extended relevant discourse and analysis of concrete and abstract topics
- Strategies for dealing with familiar and unfamiliar topics
Listening
By the end of the course students should demonstrate an ability to use the following skills to understand a range of authentic and adapted monologue and interactions between speakers without visual reference to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Pre-listening strategies for success in responding to the IELTS Academic Module Listening Test module
- Filling in the IELTS test answer sheet whilst listening to a spoken text in order to complete a range of test task types in the IELTS Academic Module Listening module in a set time
- Listening for specific items in order to complete a set task in the IELTS Academic Module Listening module
- Note-taking techniques
- Identifying attitude and intention conveyed by speakers
- Listening for global meaning
- Listening for detail
- Identifying the roles and relationships between speakers
- Identifying salient points for answers and notes
- Identifying a range of functional language exponents in a range of formal and informal spoken texts
- Identifying appropriate listening strategies
- Deducing meaning of unknown lexical items from context
Writing
By the end of the course students should demonstrate an ability to write to a level of proficiency at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Producing a range of texts with a structure appropriate to the IELTS Academic Module Writing Test module
- Producing a range of texts with format appropriate to the IELTS Academic Module Writing Test module
- Producing a range of texts relating to specific tasks as required for the IELTS Academic Module Writing Module
- Producing a range of texts with the appropriate register
- Producing a range of texts, well-organised at the sentence, paragraph, and whole text level
- Producing a range of texts with appropriate cohesive features including referencing and linking devices
- Producing texts with evidence of self-correction techniques
- Producing texts in response to a set task within a specified time frame
- Producing texts in response to a set task within a specified word count
- Producing texts with paraphrased content
- Producing texts in which a conclusion or recommendation is drawn
- Producing texts with appropriate spelling and punctuation
- Recognising a range of texts and the features outlined above
Reading
By the end of the course students should demonstrate an ability to read and comprehend a variety of texts to a level of proficiency at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT. In particular, students will receive instruction in, and practice, the following:
- Comprehending the requirements of a range of IELTS Academic Module test items
- Reading and understanding of a wide range of texts, in particular, those texts commonly appearing in the Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking IELTS Academic Module test components
- Predicting from headings, pictures, graphs and other non-verbal clues
- Global understanding of texts
- Identify main points for summarisation in written or spoken text
- Identify register, style, and intended audience of a given text
- Deduce meaning of unknown lexical items from grammatical and contextual clues
- Identify and understand positioning of author
- Identify and understand a wide range of discourse features/ markers relating to linking, time, referencing etc.
- Identify and understand different patterns of text organisation
- Identify and understand inference
- Identify and understand the difference between fact and opinion
- Identify the source of a text
- Identify and notate relevant points from a reading
- Improve reading rate and accuracy of comprehension through timing of reading speed
- Improve critical reading and thinking skills
Test-taking and Study Skills
By the end of the course students should demonstrate ability in a wide range of study skills to a level at least sufficient to meet the minimum English language requirements of their chosen course at QUT, particularly skills pertaining to the IELTS Academic Module Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing Test modules:
- Format of the four sections of the IELTS Academic Modules
- Question types found in the four sections of the IELTS Academic Modules
- Appropriate responses for the four sections of the IELTS Academic Modules
- Time management
- Test taking strategies
- Analysis of test task requirements
- Response transferral to an answer sheet
- Brainstorming
- Text planning skills
- Understanding patterns of text organisation
- Drafting and redrafting of oral and written texts
- Self-correction of texts
- Critical thinking
- Goal setting
- Learning styles
- Techniques for memorisation
- Vocabulary retention
- Familiarisation with QUT intranet and student systems
Grammar and Vocabulary
Students will receive extensive instruction in the analysis and use of a range of level-appropriate grammatical and lexical structures. This language will be presented in a variety of written and spoken contexts common to the IELTS Academic Test.
Guided Independent Learning (GIL)
GIL material is located on the Cambridge Learning Management System (LMS) and is comprised of:
- An extensive online grammar practice program, divided into the key structures taught for each weeks’ lessons in the core text (Please see “Resources” below)
- The key vocabulary in each course book module is extended by including online practice in collocations, word formation, usage in different contexts etc.
- Pronunciation lessons with nationality-specific online exercises linked to the key vocabulary and grammar of each week.
- The bulk of homework made available and marked online along with formative assessment submissions and feedback.
- Analysis of IELTS-style reading and listening texts.
- IELTS Test practice.
- Feedback platforms for teacher-student communication.
Learning Approaches
Proficiency is developed through the presentation and practice of relevant language content and skills in small classes (average 15 and maximum 18 students). In pedagogical terms, the course should incorporate a range of student-centred approaches to teaching, such as Task-Based Learning (TBL); The Communicative Approach; Guided Discovery; Flipped learning; The Lexical Approach.
Assessment
Overview
The means of assessing the extent to which the desired outcomes were achieved in respect of each learner: All forms of assessment items are based on outcomes as specified in the syllabus. Each learner’s success in achieving the desired outcomes is determined through a combination of means including:
- Formative assessment tasks comprising specific content-based tasks in weeks 1 -10
- Teacher monitoring of performance in class
- Execution of homework and GIL tasks
- Attendance
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Text and online material