What my students wish they had known before starting university.
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Course outline: the 12-week course
Week 1: Getting started
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To do list
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Week 2: People
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Each week, students:
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Week 3: General English
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Week 4: Academic vocabulary
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Week 5: Active and Passive Vocabulary and Study
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Week 6: Learning language from language
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Week 7: Mid-term break
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Week 8: Chunks, hedging and triangulation
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Week 9: Text
- The nature of text
- Top-down and bottom-up preparation
- Sections of texts
- Academic structures
- Collocation
- Discovery learning
Week 10: Key features of academic texts
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Week 11: Scientific Concepts
- Humanism
- Observation
- Hypothesis
- Data analysis
- Peer review
- Correlation and causation
Week 12: Cognitive biases and course round up
- Cognitive dissonance
- Confirmation bias
- Recency bias
- Social desirability bias
- Anchoring
- Overview
- Feedback
- Farewell and good luck!
