School Schedule Timeline: Academic English
Week 1
Introduction to the course, assessment overview, Moodle, group work, AI tools & Prompt Engineering.
Week 2
AI criticality, academic integrity, integrated reading to speaking, research topic narrowing, introduction to research project.
Week 3
Diagnostic Speaking, Reading, and Listening Tasks, AI-facilitated group discussion, AI-driven research engines, choosing a research topic.
Week 4
Evaluating sources, ethical AI discussions, academic databases, reading strategies, Boolean operators in research.
Week 5
Understanding text structure, summarizing for purpose, AI-generated summary evaluations, cause & effect relationships.
Week 6
Explanation structures, discourse features, spoken vs written language, note-taking strategies, infographic group work.
Week 7
Challenge Week (Activities TBD).
Week 8
Reading strategies, identifying cause & effect relationships, writing paragraph structures, note-taking & planning.
Week 9
Short answer joint writing, synthesis strategies, paraphrasing, peer writing exercises.
Week 10
Listening & note-taking, nominalisation, causal relationships, organizing arguments.
Week 11
Peer feedback on short answer writing, practice assessment task, social determinants of health study.
Week 12
Listening comprehension, paraphrasing, synthesis review, feedback on writing tasks.
Week 13
Speaking Assessments, Extended Answer Practice, feedback on writing and discussion tasks.
Assessment Week: End of Term 1
Formative assessments: Speaking (10%), Reading (5%), Listening (5%).
Assessments: End of Term 2
Summative assessments: Group Discussion (15%), Integrated Writing (20%), Reading (12.5%), Listening (12.5%).
Adapted from Foundations Studies Standard Academic English Course Outline (UNSW College, 2025).
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