ALACS - Academic Vocabulary Skills
Duration 9 days
Team Centre For English Language Education

Duration: 9 weeks 

Aims and objectives

The aim of this course is to improve your active and passive vocabulary knowledge. It will help you to:

  • develop strategies for learning new academic vocabulary
  • improve dictionary and thesaurus skills for your degree study
  • understand the basic rules for word formation
  • develop an understanding of levels of formality in vocabulary
  • become more aware of the connotations and associations of words and expressions 

Syllabus

Week 1 What is word knowledge?
Week 2 Suffixes
Week 3 Prefixes
Week 4 Lexical cohesion
Week 5 Word families
Week 6 Adjective and very patterns
Week 7 Register
Week 8 Collocation
Week 9 Review
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