Browse Hierarchy EAL4731: Grammar in Context 1

This module is offered to students at levels 4,5,6,7 and responds to their linguistic and discipline specific needs in terms of grammar. Students joining this module are already at IELTS level 6.5 /7. This equates to B2/C1 on the CEFR framework, and Queen Mary currently benchmarks this to level 5/6 on the NQF framework. The module content consists of the grammatical analysis of written texts which students currently read, or are expected to write, during their degree programmes. While these texts change according to the disciplines of the class, they include genres that students are likely to read or write during their degree programmes: research papers, academic articles, student essays, student exam answers, student dissertations and theses and text books. The module is delivered in response to students' linguistic and discipline specific needs and therefore the basic syllabus is necessarily flexible but includes key areas of grammar for academic writing contextualised by short practice writing tasks (sentences or paragraphs) on such functions as summarising, paraphrasing, defining, describing things and processes, explaining, exemplifying and narrating.