This unit is intended to be run in the second semester of the second year of undergraduate degree programmes and consolidates prior knowledge, skills and competences of Academic English by further strengthening reading, writing, listening and speaking skills as determined by the rigours of pre-dissertation research.
English II is targeted at learners who have successfully completed their degree programme’s first year and exposes undergraduate students to a higher level of critical reading and writing skills demanded in the second and final years of the degree programme. This usually involves the identification and select reading of academic texts, their review and their eventual use in a research proposal, dissertation and academic presentation.
It is also the objective of this unit to train learners to be more aware of, and proficient in, spoken Academic English as this becomes a key requirement at this level of studies.
