Author(s): Cynthia Eid and Ann Johns Language(s): English Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Antonine University Press Number of Pages: 322 Cover Type: Paperback Book Dimensions: 17 x 23.5 cm ISBN: 978-9953-552-18-7 Availability: Available Price:

Summary:
Language courses at Antonine University are directed towards the students’ immediate academic and the long-term professional success. Classes build upon one another, so it can be assumed that students in a more advanced class have been taught according to the objectives of the previous classes. This means that for every course, except those for beginners, instructors need to build on what has been taught before. Note that throughout the curriculum, some of the objectives relating to essential academic tasks such as summarizing, citation, process writing, presenting speeches using PowerPoint, and listening to lectures, and note-taking, on relevant subject matter, are repeated at several levels. This is because only through distributed, continuous practice in number of their classes can students adequately develop the necessary skills and strategies to succeed in their disciplinary classes and professional life. Of course, the readings and writing assignments at the more advanced levels should be more discipline-related, difficult, and complex; however, strategy practice on essential academic tasks should continue.