ELEP-READ1: Vocabulary Building A

This module can help you by providing you with the chance to build up your vocabulary and apply the strategies needed to record and recall words. This will help you to reach a higher standard in your university assignments, projects and presentations. It will also help you with your professional English in the future. Research shows that students often consider themselves rather weak in expressing their ideas in both written and spoken communication at university and, especially, in understanding specialist vocabulary and working out the meaning of academic words. This module is designed to help you overcome some of the problems that you may encounter when studying at this university.

This is a Level A module mainly intended for first-year students who have a weak foundation in a particular area of English (e.g. they have performed poorly in any of the papers in the Use of English)". The main aim of these modules is to help students to build a sound foundation in their areas of weakness. Level A modules are pitched at lower-intermediate to intermediate levels.

This module aims to build up both your receptive and active vocabulary by introducing various vocabulary storing and recalling techniques and by analysing the internal structure of words so that you can express yourself in a more sophisticated way.

discover and apply strategies for recording / recalling words
utilise a dictionary, thesaurus and concordancer more effectively
infer meaning by analysing the internal structure of words
expand their knowledge of synonyms and antonyms
familiarise themselves with academic words and functions

	Vocabulary Building A


Classroom instruction 14 hours		Web-based exercises 10 hours	Independent learning 6 hours

In the classroom component of this module you are expected to complete 7 units of work on various aspects of vocabulary development. The topics covered in these units are as follows.

Unit	Topics
1	General introduction to the course; ice-breaking activities
2	Word building strategies and dictionary skills
3	Using roots and suffixes to build vocabulary
4	Synonyms and antonyms
5	Causes and effects
6	Similarities and differences
7	Change and continuity

To maximise the value of the classroom component, please make sure that you attend class regularly and punctually, and that you participate fully in the activities.

You are expected to spend around 10 hours on web-based exercises (i.e. about 1 hour and 30 minutes per week). These exercises will be closely connected to the activities covered in class and will give you the opportunity to consolidate and extend your knowledge and skills.

You are expected to do at least 6 hours of independent learning in the Centre for Independent Language Learning (CILL). Your work in the CILL should be related to vocabulary development.

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