Audience:
- This course is designed for students wishing to improve their ability to study effectively in English.
Pre-requisites:
- Students should have completed the Level 4 Course or equivalent.
- A computer with internet access (for forum posts and online meetings)
- A PDF file reader (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Duration:
- Approx. 100 hours
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course students will be able to:
• read and understand a range of authentic academic texts
• listen to lectures and presentations
• write a variety of essays and other assignments
• participate in seminars and group discussions
• prepare and give presentations
• improve study skills such as planning, note-taking and research techniques
• critical thinking
• recognize and use academic grammar
• learn and use academic vocabulary.
• listen to lectures and presentations
• write a variety of essays and other assignments
• participate in seminars and group discussions
• prepare and give presentations
• improve study skills such as planning, note-taking and research techniques
• critical thinking
• recognize and use academic grammar
• learn and use academic vocabulary.
English 
简体中文
Xing Lixian –
The teacher is nice and friendly.
sunhongjie –
very good
lixiangrui –
good
Xinxin –
The class is useful, and James is so interesting.
陈佳龙 –
interesting courses, great teacher!
syh –
excellent class
Shaobo Wu –
Great course，useful materials，easy to follow
yanaichu –
this course is very good
Xinxin –
The class is useful and James is so interesting.
sunhongjie –
satisfied
MaShujiao –
James is very nice, I have learned a lot through this course.
YAO.JINGTAI –
Course is great. Teacher James is so good at making complex things easy for us new.
Hzy –
Good writing teachers
Huang –
The learning content of the course is rich, and the teacher is very kind in class
Liu xingxing –
Mr. James is a very gentle teacher. He shares many interesting things with us in class, I really learned a lot.
Zhang xiaoqi –
Here I learned how to write different types of articles and how to start. It is useful for me.
Renhuizhen –
The course is very good, I learned a lot！
Bao Bingyan –
I gained a lot from this course and learned a lot of writing skills and methods.
Ma xu –
Excellent course, worth learning
Xing Lixian –
The teacher speaks fluent British English
Ning zihan –
He makes the class more interesting
Yixi Li –
This cource is useful. I learn a lot.
Pan Zijian –
This course is very beneficial to the improvement of academic English and I have gained a lot.
Pan Zhaoyang –
English for Academic Purposes – Level 5 – Advanced – VIP Gold
Liao Wenkai –
Through this course, I have mastered the drawing of mind maps, the establishment of article structures, and the filling of main details, and have initially acquired the writing ability of different types of academic topic papers
Xiaoyi Wang –
A lot of useful skills for writing an （academic） essay.
Wang Mengxuan –
The teacher was conscientious and responsible, and I learned a lot. I wish this course to get better and better!
Wang Ao –
The lectures are accompanied by specific examples and exercises, which are clear and useful.
Pan Zhaoyang –
very good and interesting
Bob –
The teacher talked about a lot of details in writing, gave a lot of interesting examples, and talked about the writing framework and writing logic of different types of articles, all of which were very practical.
Mao Lin –
The teacher’s thinking is clear, the speech is smooth, the arrangement is reasonable, and the effect is good.
Chen Pengpeng –
This teacher is so good！！！！！！！
huangyalin –
good
Ye Yonghong –
High teaching enthusiasm from the teacher infected us, to mobilize the teaching atmosphere, so that we were in the psychological resonance and got into the best learning state. Moreover, though I’m poor in spoken English, the teacher is patient with me. Thanks a lot for your earnest teaching.