Course Description:

This course aims to improve the students' proficiency to express and convey their message and intensions in both intelligible and comprehensible written English within the competence standards of CEFR B2 with the focus on reading and writing skills. In this course, students are also introduced and exposed to varieties of academic essays that are closely related to IELTS. In a class where International students are present, the course will also provide the opportunity for the students to be exposed to World Englishes and, thus, become aware of identity considerations and cultural sensitivity.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use the foreign language in such a way to cope with the requirements of those situations they are likely to find themselves in, particularly:

1. situations involving practical transactions in everyday life;
2. situations involving personal interaction, enabling the learners to establish and maintain social contacts as well as to engage in meaningful relations in various domains of public life (e.g. business, education, welfare, entertainment);
3. situations involving indirect communication, requiring the understanding of the gist and relevant details of spoken and written texts.