Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ

Reading Writing Grammar

EAP 0660: Level 6 Global Academic Track (C1 Advanced)

Goal #1: Develop students’ ability to read, understand and analyze complex academic texts
and research-based articles.

Goal #2: Develop students’ ability to write a research paper on an academic topic in which
an argument is established, supported with synthesized sources, and cited correctly using MLA or APA.

Goal #3: Develop students’ ability to apply knowledge of grammar in written communication at an advanced level.

Student Learning Outcomes

Reading

• Read and analyze advanced academic texts at the C1 level, demonstrating command of academic vocabulary including collocations and multi-word phrases.
• Employ active reading and annotation strategies in C1 advanced-level texts and discipline-specific academic articles.
• Articulate the central thesis or claim of a reading, as well as supporting information and counterclaims in C1-level texts and academic articles.
• Evaluate the credibility of an author, claim, or text.
• Interpret information presented visually in the form of graphs, charts, and other visuals.
• Summarize and paraphrase advanced level source material and synthesize different readings in preparation for writing a research essay.
• Infer meaning, mood, bias, and tone in increasingly complex readings at the C1 level.

Writing

• Select and use a wide range of academic vocabulary intentionally for variety, precision, clarity, and emphasis in C1-level writing.
• Compose with a variety of sentence types and structures to produce fluent, cohesive writing with accurate word order at the C1 advanced level.
• Use transitional words and phrases strategically to indicate relationships between ideas and build coherence and cohesion in sophisticated, purposeful writing.
• Apply correct in-text citation and referencing of source materials in accordance with an established academic style.
• Employ systematic revising and editing strategies — including structural revision, peer review, and instructor feedback — to improve organization, coherence, grammatical accuracy, and word choice.
• Produce increasingly sophisticated, well-argued, and developed essays at the C1-advanced level, demonstrating control of rhetoric, evidence, and academic voice.
• Produce a short research paper on an academic topic that establishes and defends a central claim using synthesized, properly cited source material.
• Use AI tools strategically and ethically by applying independent critical judgment to AI-generated suggestions, maintaining full authorial responsibility, and disclosing AI use transparently in accordance with academic integrity standards.

Grammar

• Use all English verb tenses accurately and appropriately across a range of spoken and written contexts, selecting tense and aspect to convey precise temporal and aspectual meaning.
• Use causative verbs (have, get, make, let, help) accurately at the C1-advanced level.
• Use progressive and passive forms of modals in present/future and past contexts, including negative forms, for advisability, certainty/conclusion, and obligation.
• Use passive infinitives and passive gerunds accurately in academic writing.
• Use advanced conditional structures, including mixed conditionals, and alternative conditional expressions (only if, provided, even if, whether…or not, unless, in case, omitting if in formal inversion).
• Form and use reduced adjective clauses (adjective phrases) and reduced adverb clauses of time, reason, contrast, and concession accurately.
• Apply key discourse grammar features in academic writing and speech, including cleft sentences (It is…that), fronting, subject-auxiliary inversion for emphasis, ellipsis, and substitution.
• Demonstrate metalinguistic awareness by identifying and explaining grammatical errors in written texts and applying this awareness to self-edit own writing accurately across all grammar structures encountered at A1 through B2.