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| English for Higher Studies |
| LondonSAM’s English for Higher Education course is designed for non-native speakers with basic, intermediate or advanced level language skills. Our training will help you become comfortable with English as your second language and help you feel confident conversing in English in everyday situations. Our language training is adapted to your skill level and fully tailored to meet your English language needs and learning style. We customise our classes especially for you – including designing the language training to include specific vocabulary for your studies and future job role or industry. |
| Some of the methodologies used in our programme are: |
- Reading, writing and listening tasks
- Case studies, role plays and simulations
- Use of language to resolve issues
- Communicative and task-based training |
| Our classes are taught by highly qualified teaching professionals, many of whom have their teaching qualifications in English. |
| The Objectives |
| The purpose of this course is to assist adult learners
of non-English speaking backgrounds to develop the
language and literacy skills required to undertake further
education and training, seek and maintain employment,
and participate in the community. |
| To develop students' basic practical communication abilities such as listening and speaking, deepening the understanding of language and culture, and fostering a positive attitude toward communication through foreign languages. |
- To accustom and familiarise students with listening to English and enable them to understand the speaker's intentions etc. in simple English
- To accustom and familiarise students with speaking in English and enable them to speak about their thoughts etc. in simple English
- To accustom and familiarise students with reading in English and enable them to understand the writer's intentions etc. in simple English
- To accustom and familiarise students with writing in English and enable them to write about their thoughts etc. in simple English
- To enable students to:
- write and read critically, with a focus on genres, in order to develop writing, rhetorical, and analytical processes
- articulate and develop through writing and discussing their ideas about genres
- enhance their skills in argumentative writing
- practise and develop the research skills
- enhance their skills in responding to and critiquing the writing of their peers
- respond to and critique various genres
- respond to and critique their own and their classmates' writing
- continue to hone their writing through attention to structure, grammar, punctuation, and style
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| Level 1 |
| This unit is designed for beginners who have an elementary knowledge of the English language. By the end of the course students should be able to engage in a discussion about everyday life and demonstrate an ability to communicate in the written form using descriptive vocabulary and simple past and future tenses. |
| Level 2 |
| This unit is designed for students who have successfully completed level 1 and have a working knowledge of the English language. By the end of the course students should be able to engage at a professional level displaying a wide verbal and written vocabulary using regular and irregular verbs, comparatives and superlatives and auxiliary verbs. |
| Level 3 |
This unit is designed for students who have successfully completed level 2 and have experience of the English language. The student can demonstrate understanding of an oral presentation, deliver a short oral presentation, demonstrate understanding of a media interview and can read a complex advertisement.
The course enables the student to write a formal email, write a discussion, read and write a narrative text, participate in an interview, demonstrate understanding of a casual conversation with topic changes, demonstrate understanding of spoken instructions and the ability to write a formal letter. |
| Profile of candidate |
The Programme aims to develop students' basic practical communication abilities such as listening and speaking, deepening the understanding of language and culture, and fostering a positive attitude toward communication through foreign languages.
Each learner will sit an entrance exam to identify which Level they best fit into; the units will be adapted to suit each learner’s individual needs, i.e. to include specific vocabulary for their studies and future job role or industry.
The various Levels of units range from familiarising students with basic listening, speaking, reading and writing of English through to critical and argumentative reading, writing and discussion. |
The course is awarded and validated by OCN Credit4Learning |
| OCN Credit4Learning (OCNOTC) is an independent not-for-profit organisation committed to making a difference to education and training. We are a registered charity investing our resources in the improvement of existing services and the development of new products and packages. We are governed by a board drawn from leaders in the fields of education, training and business. |
| English requirement for the course |
The College will expect the student to provide evidence of an acceptable result in one of the recognised English language tests (eg: IELTS, TOEFL) otherwise the student will be required to undertake the 3-month compulsory English course and prove their proficiency before starting the main course.
On completion of the first stage, the student will be assessed via a procedure agreed with the external moderator to ensure that the student has achieved all the learning outcomes before proceeding to the next stage.
The same procedure will be followed for stages 2 and 3 until the student is able to prove their proficiency in all stages of English. |
