"Oxford EAP develops the essential skills and academic language for learners who are preparing to study in English at university level, from foundation courses to postgraduate research.

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CONTENTS

1. BEHAVIOUR
Academic focus: Text structure - navigating academic texts
READING: Academic texts - Identifying genre, audience, purpose, and perspective in texts -- Navigating texts -- Perspective: Words and phrases expressing perspective
WRITING: Academic writing - Personalizing the writing process: planning, preparation, and working with ideas -- Analysing, planning, and writing a coherent essay introduction -- Noun phrases (1): Expressing information concisely using noun phrases
LISTENING: Lectures (1) - Using the introduction and navigational language to understand a lecture -- Note-taking (1): evaluating different note-taking techniques -- Signposting (1): Guiding the audience
SPEAKING: Student discussions - Preparing for a discussion individually and collaboratively -- Active listening: checking, clarifying, and confirming -- Interaction (1): Checking and confirming
VOCABULARY: Flexibility - Recognizing word forms and how they are used -- Using different word forms to express perspective

2. SUSTAINABILITY
Academic focus: Discursive texts - presenting an argument
READING: Argumentative texts - Understanding an argument and recognizing a writer's stance -- Identifying arguments and supporting evidence -- Noun phrases (2): Using nouns to present alternative arguments
WRITING: Discursive essays - Presenting an argument and incorporating citation -- Planning and writing a body paragraph of a discursive essay -- Citations (1): Incorporating references
LISTENING: Lectures (2) - Topic signposting in a lecture -- Listening critically and evaluating an argument -- Signposting (2): Focusing on the main theme
SPEAKING: Seminars (1) - Contributing to a discussion: developing, presenting , and supporting an argument -- Introducing, interrupting, and turn-taking -- Interaction (2): Interrupting and linking
VOCABULARY: Accuracy - Choosing prepositions in nouns phrases -- Identifying adjective / verb + preposition combinations

3. CREATIVITY
Academic focus: Summarizing texts
READING: Journal articles (1) - Identifying the features and structure of abstracts -- Navigating journal articles and using abstracts for research -- Style (1): Describing and summarizing aims
WRITING: Essay conclusions -- Ensuring coherence and cohesion throughout an essay -- Analyzing, writing, and evaluating a conclusion -- Hedging (1): Modal verbs, tentative verbs, and adverbs
LISTENING: Lectures (3) - Establishing key words and themes from the introduction -- Note-taking (2): using different techniques
SPEAKING: Seminars (2) - Reading in preparation for a seminar discussion -- Summarizing ideas from written sources -- Citations (2): Referring to sources in discussion
VOCABULARY: Identifying sense -- Identifying senses -- Understanding grammatical differences in usage

4. INFORMATION
Academic focus: Comparing, contrasting, and evaluating
READING: Textbooks (1) - Evaluating objectively in texts -- Identifying the main points in texts for a summary -- Identifying cohesive words to confirm themes -- Comparing, contrasting, and evaluating information in different texts -- Cohesion (1): Using related words and synonyms in a text
WRITING: Understanding an essay question and writing a basic essay plan -- Using source texts: selecting, comparing, and evaluating points across multiple texts -- Planning and writing a comparison essay -- Comparing and evaluating: Using adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs
LISTENING: Presentations (1) -- Identifying and explaining key components in a poster -- Listening to the question and answer stage of a poster presentation -- Evaluating a poster and presentation
SPEAKING: Presentations (2) -- Planning, researching, and giving a poster presentation -- Viewing posters and preparing critical questions VOCABULARY: Variety -- Understanding how synonyms alter meaning -- Using antonyms to avoid negatives

5. PATTERNS
Academic focus: Citation and referencing
LISTENING: Lectures (4) - Making notes on a chronological sequence -- Recognizing and citations and references in lectures -- Citations (6): References to people, works, and ideas
SPEAKING: Teamwork - Planning and conducting team research -- Preparing and giving a group presentation -- Hedging (2): Reaching agreement
VOCABULARY: Lexical patterns - Recognizing verb + verb patterns -- Identifying and using clause patterns

6. RESPONSIBILITY
Academic focus: Selecting and summarizing from sources
LISTENING: Lectures (5) - Understanding the main points of a lecture -- Summarizing a key concept from a lecture -- Combining and comparing information from two lectures
SPEAKING: Reading and preparing a logical argument for a seminar -- Asking questions about a contribution -- Conducting a seminar discussion and summarizing main points VOCABULARY: Collocations -- Recognizing collocations in a text -- Identifying academic & discipline-specific collocations

7. DATA
Academic focus: Description, interpretation, and stance
READING: Expository texts -- Evaluating data sources and asking critical questions about data -- Recognizing stance and subtle evaluation in an expository text -- Comparing perspective and stance across texts
WRITING: Data commentary -- Interpreting data in visual form and writing a commentary -- Decoding and constructing complex noun phrases
LISTENING: Presentations (3) -- Understanding visual data in a presentation -- Distinguishing between evidence and evaluation -- Critically evaluating a presentation
SPEAKING: Presentations (4) -- Planning, researching, and rehearsing a short presentation of visual data -- Evaluating performance: format, description, interpretation, and stance
VOCABULARY: Being specific -- Specifying exact details about data -- Research Project (1) -- Choosing a topic

8. INFLUENCE
Academic focus: Cause, effect, and association
READING: Complex texts -- Identifying cause, effect, and association connections in a complex text -- Recognizing confident and tentative connections -- Exploring evaluation across texts
WRITING: Cause and effect essays -- Expressing cause and effect relationships coherently -- Researching, planning, and writing a cause and effect essay
LISTENING: Lectures (6) -- Reading a pre-lecture handout to prepare for a lecture -- Listening for facts, association, and evaluation
SPEAKING: Seminars (4) -- Gathering evidence for a seminar discussion -- Defending your argument using justifying and evaluation language
VOCABULARY: Word formation (1) -- Prefixes, compound words -- Researching project (2) -- Establishing a working title

9. VARIATION
Academic focus: Evaluation and critical response
READING: Different genres -- Evaluating types of source -- Recognizing narrative in source texts -- Identifying writing style, levels of formality and marked language
WRITING: Critical response -- Recognizing, responding to, and expressing evaluation -- Writing a critical response to a text
LISTENING: Lectures (7) -- Techniques for dealing with different lecture styles -- Using lecture notes and slides effectively
SPEAKING: Seminars (5) -- Preparing an oral summary and evaluation of a text -- Participating in a seminar discussion and incorporating examples.
VOCABULARY: Idioms in academic writing -- Understanding and using idioms -- Research Project (3) -- Making an outline plan

10. GLOBALIZATION
Academic focus: Problems, solutions, and evaluation
READING: Textbooks (2) -- Identifying problems, solutions, and evaluation in different texts -- Working out meaning in complex sentences -- Recognizing the perspective and stance of writers and readers
WRITING: Problem-solution essays: Defining problems, proposing and evaluating solutions -- Incorporating voice in an essay -- Planning and writing a problem-solution essay
LISTENING: Presentations (5) -- Reading a conference presentation abstract to predict content -- Recognizing known and new information -- Evaluating the summary of a presentation
SPEAKING: Presentations (6) -- Pre- to post-presentation planning -- Working towards script independence -- Giving and evaluating a presentation
VOCABULARY: Sensitive language -- Connotation -- Research Project (4) -- Writing a first draft

11. OBSERVATION
Academic focus: Chronology - case study and process
READING: Case studies -- Understanding case studies -- Using generic language to express relationships -- Taking detailed notes to use for writing
WRITING: Complex descriptions -- Analysing types of process and identifying evaluation -- Writing a description of a process based on notes from reading and research
LISTENING: Lectures (8) -- Using visuals to understand and explain key concepts -- Taking notes on multiple related processes
SPEAKING: Seminars (6) -- Analyzing a process text and developing material to use in a discussion -- Participating in a seminar discussion
VOCABULARY: Word formation (2) -- Single and multiple suffixes -- Research Projects (5) -- Making a clear argument

12. RESEARCH
Academic focus: Research and reporting
READING: Independent reading -- Establishing reading purpose -- Employing appropriate reading techniques -- Reporting on reading spoken and written form
WRITING: Research Writing -- Using feedback to edit a text for language accuracy -- Developing a personal proofreading checklist -- Acting on feedback to finalize a text
LISTENING: Lectures (9) -- Matching note-taking technique to purpose of listening -- Using lecture notes to prepare for a presentation
SPEAKING: Presentations (7) -- Planning a research presentation - Understanding the test -- Considering your audience -- Preparing and giving a research presentation
VOCABULARY: Review and research -- Vocabulary review -- Research Project (6) -- Finalize your work

Glossary of grammatical and academic terms

Language reference

Checklists

Additional materials from units

Video and audio transcripts

List of sources for texts

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