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
LocationStart DateAll DatesTimesPlaces AvailableBook
Jubilee Campus07 October 202407, 14, 21, 28 October, 04, 11, 18, 25 November, 02 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm25
University Park08 October 202408, 15, 22, 29 October, 05, 12, 19, 26 November, 03 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm26
Online Course09 October 202409, 16, 23, 30 October, 06, 13, 20, 27 November, 04 December 20245:00pm - 6:00pm0Add to Waiting List
University Park11 October 202411, 18, 25 October, 01, 08, 15, 22, 29 November, 06 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm26