Duration: 9 weeks 

Open to all international students| All disciplines are welcome.

Aims and objectives

The aim of this course is to 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