Includes glossary and transcripts.

"English in Psychology is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of psychology who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist listening exercises that come from psychology lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key psychology vocabulary that students will need.

Listening: how to understand and take effective notes on extended lectures, including how to follow the argument and identify the speaker's point of view.

Speaking: how to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations, from seminars to presentations, including how to develop an argument and use stance markers.

Reading: how to understand a wide range of texts, from academic textbooks to Internet articles, including how to analyze complex sentences and identify such things as the writer's stance.

Writing: how to produce coherent and well-structured assignments, including such skills as paraphrasing and the use of appropriate academic phrases.

Vocabulary: a wide range of activities to develop students' knowledge and use of key vocabulary, both in the field of management and of academic study in general.

Vocabulary and Skills banks: a reference resource to provide students with revision of the key words and phrases and skills presented in the unit.

Full transcripts of all listening exercises.

The Garnet English for Specific Academic Purposes series covers a range of academic subjects. All titles present the same skills and vocabulary points. Teachers can, therefore, deal with a range of ESAP courses at the same time, knowing that each subject title will focus on the same key skills and follow the same structure" (Book cover).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Unit 1 - WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Definition of psychology
Introduction to branches of psychology

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words from general English with a special meaning in psychology
Prefixes and suffixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
preparing for a lecture
predicting lecture content from the introduction
understanding lecture organization
choosing an appropriate form of notes
making lecture notes

Speaking:
speaking from notes

Unit 2 - BRANCHES OF PSYCHOLOGY (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Pure and applied science
Process and person approaches
Developmental/educational, occupational, biological, forensic

VOCABULARY FOCUS
English-English dictionaries: headwords - definitions - parts of speech - phonemes - stress markers - countable/uncountable - transitive/intransitive

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text
using topic sentences to get an overview of the text

Writing:
writing topic sentences
summarizing a text

Unit 3 - PSYCHOLOGY IN PRACTICE (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Professional practice: occupational and clinical psychology
Phobias
Mental disorders

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Stress patterns in multi-syllable words
Prefixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
preparing for a lecture
predicting lecture content
making lecture notes
using different information sources

Speaking:
reporting research findings
formulating questions

Unit 4 - PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPUTERS (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Using computers for research
Using computers to develop cognitive models
Computers and diagnosis of mental illness
Virtual reality

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Computer jargon
Abbreviations and acronyms
Discourse and stance markers
Verb and noun suffixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
identifying topic development within a paragraph
using the Internet effectively
evaluating Internet search results

Writing:
reporting research findings

Unit 5 - DREAMS AND PERSONALITY (Listening – Speaking)

TOPICS
Approaches to dreams
Freud
Jung
Models of consciousness and personality

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words sets: synonyms, antonyms, etc.
The language of trends
Common lecture language

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
understanding 'signpost language' in lectures
using symbols and abbreviations in note-taking

Speaking
making effective contributions to a seminar

Unit 6 - VYGOTSKY AND PIAGET: THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Vygotsky Development of thought and language across cultures
Piaget Cognitive development and education

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Synonyms, replacement subjects, etc., for sentence-level paraphrasing

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
reporting findings from other sources: avoiding plagiarism
locating key information in complex sentences

Writing:
writing complex sentences

Unit 7 - MEMORY (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Models of memory
Input - transfer - storage
Short-term and long-term memory
Theories about forgetting
Memory and hypnosis

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Compound nouns
Fixed phrases from management English
Fixed phrases from academic English
Common lecture language

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
understanding speaker emphasis

Speaking:
asking for clarification
responding to queries and requests for clarification

Unit 8 - MENTAL DISORDERS: POPULAR MYTHS (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Common myths about mental illness
The media and stereotypes of mental illness

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Synonyms
Nouns from verbs
Definitions
Common 'direction' verbs in essay titles (discuss, analyze, evaluate, etc.)

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
understanding dependent clauses with passives

Writing:
paraphrasing
expanding notes into complex sentences
recognizing different essay types/structures: descriptive, analytical, comparison/evaluation, argument
writing essay plans
writing essays

Unit 9 - PERSONALITY (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Trait theory
Genetics and personality
Measuring traits
Leadership

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Fixed phrases from management English
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
using the Cornell note-taking system
recognizing digressions in lectures

Speaking:
making effective contributions to a seminar
referring to other people's ideas in a seminar

Unit 10 - MODERN ADDICTIONS (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Internet addiction
Body image and eating disorders
Typical procedures including industrial action

VOCABULARY FOCUS
'Neutral' and 'marked' words
Fixed phrases from industrial relations
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
recognizing the writer's stance and level of confidence or tentativeness
inferring implicit ideas

Writing:
writing situation-problem-solution-evaluation essays
using direct quotations
compiling a bibliography / reference list

Unit 11 - PARAPSYCHOLOGY (Listening - Speaking)

TOPIC
Parapsychology
Mind over matter
Altered states of mind

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words/phrases used to link ideas (moreover, as a result, etc.)
Stress patterns in noun phrases and compounds
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
recognizing the speaker's stance
writing up notes in full

Speaking:
building an argument in a seminar
agreeing / disagreeing

Unit 12 - WITH THE FUTURE IN MIND (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Virtual relationships
Violence and video games
Case study: cyberbullying

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Verbs used to introduce ideas from other sources (X contends/suggests/asserts that ...)
Linking words/phrases conveying contrast (whereas), result (consequently), reasons (due to), etc.
Words for quantities (a significant minority)

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
understanding how ideas in a text are linked

Writing:
deciding whether to use direct quotation or paraphrase
incorporating quotations
writing research reports
writing effective introductions / conclusions

Intended for students of psychology who are about to eneter English-medium tertiary level studies. Designed for students at the upper intermediate to proficient level (CEF B2 - C2).