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

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
LocationStart DateAll DatesTimesPlaces AvailableBook
Online Course26 January 202626 January, 02, 09, 16, 23 February, 02, 09, 16, 23 March 20269:00am - 10:00am30Booking Open12-01-2026 10:00
Online Course28 January 202628 January, 04, 11, 18, 25 February, 04, 11, 18, 25 March 20261:00pm - 2:00pm30Booking Open12-01-2026 10:00