Balancing an innovative EAP assessment cocktail with student autonomy: Booster Week/end
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This paper explores the ways in which academic English programmes, particularly presessional courses, can help students to prepare for their departmental studies by ensuring that their course design meets the expectations of the receiving departments and exposes learners to the types of skills that they will be assessed on during their degree courses. The main component of this article is to share an innovation in which students are exposed to a single, highly intensive, student-centred activity which targets multiple competencies. It also demonstrates a range of skills, both linguistic and academic, which can be assessed through this activity. Note: the innovative assessment cocktail can be used on any multi-disciplinary or discipline-specific academic English presessional course.
assessment; ESAP; departmental studies; Booster Week; academic
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