English for Academic Purposes 1 (Science Teachers)

Group photograph of Science Teachers 3/9 taken June 2010.

Once again I have the opportunity to teach science teachers. This is not the first time that I have said that I have always found science students to be really hard workers and prepared to ask questions when they are not sure of what to do. Chemistry students were my first science class and I have enjoy developing the class materials for the course as the students continue to play an active part in trialling the course material. This is the final trial course before the course material is complete. Next semester I will be teaching them again and developing the second EAP course.   

Play the slideshow of class members below by clicking on the play button.

The latest classroom video can be viewed here:

Wayuree Eunsuk gives a speech about her very simple experiment as part of her course-work. 

Language Center
Udon Thani Rajabhat University
Course Syllabus
1552499: English for Academic Purposes (Chemistry)
3(3-0-6)

Course Description

This course develops the writing skills of the students. The aim of this course is to equip the students with the relevant skills, so that by the end of the semester, they will effectively be able to write paragraphs describing their chemistry experiments. In addition, students will trial new integrated skills materials to convert the existing writing course into an integrated skills course for science students.

Objectives

At the end of the course, students will have effectively demonstrated the following:

1. To understand and build sentences to paragraph level.
2. To write paragraphs describing process, cause and effect.
3. To write about a simple experiment.
4. To comprehend reading texts in English by skimming and scanning.
5. Thinking in English.
6. Listening to English texts for comprehension.
7. Giving a presentation about a simple experiment.

Course Schedule

Evaluation

Grading system

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Donovan, P. Basic English for Science. Oxford University Press. 2002.

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Mikulecky, B.S. and Jeffries, L. Basic Reading Power. Longman. 2003.

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