The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course helps you to get ready for study at a university or college. EAP also helps you to understand what it is like to study in Australia with Australian students. This can be different from your home country.
Living and learning English in Sydney is one of the most fun-filled and enriching experiences you could wish for. Enrolling in an EAP course not just helps to boost your English skills but helps you to get ready to study at a university or college and become immersed in the local culture and people.
What’s EAP?
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is an example of a group of English courses called English for Specific Purposes (ESP). ESP courses are designed because students are studying them for a ‘specific’ reason – that means the course is designed to meet the requirements of the English learners. Students are not learning English just to be good at it; instead, they study the ESP course because of some need.
So what are the needs of students who decide to study an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course? As the name suggests, the EAP course is to help overseas students to gain the English language skills and knowledge that will be required for further academic courses usually here in Australia.
Scots’ EAP courses
Scots’ EAP course is designed to prepare international students, from a range of backgrounds and nationalities, to undertake tertiary study in Australia.
Students enrolled for this course will have a specific study objective - to complete a tertiary-level course in a mainstream Australian tertiary institution. This may include courses available in universities, both private and public, private colleges and TAFE colleges.
Scots’ EAP course runs at four levels. This offers students a specialist study preparation option with a progression from a Pre-Intermediate (CEFR = A2) to Advanced (CEFR = C1) levels. Each of these four levels run for 12 weeks.
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Levels 1 to 4 (Full time) |
The focus of an EAP course is developing the skills areas in English which the student will require to study alongside native speakers in mainstream course areas. However, students entering the EAP course at the lower Pre-Intermediate level may not have sufficient language skills to manage EAP materials immediately. For this reason, the balance of the EAP course will move from a language focus to a skills focus as the student progresses through the levels from EAP 1 to EAP 2 to EAP 3 and EAP 4. This means, when you study the EAP1 and 2 courses, there is a greater emphasis on learning language – grammar and structure, vocabulary, syntax – while the EAP 3 and EAP 4 courses has a greater focus on language skills – reading, writing, speaking & listening.
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