English for Academic Purposes - 1 (069098D)

The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course is designed to help students excel in their chosen field. They learn to communicate with confidence and improve essential study skills in an English-speaking academic environment. Students will engage in collaborative learning, structured self-study, and student teacher dialogue just as though they were studying a bachelor’s degree.

Murdoch College offer a flexible teaching structure that is tailored to students' future study choices. If they plan to study a Foundation Certificate or Murdoch University Preparation Course, then they’ll complete the English for Academic Purposes 1 (EAP1) course, with an entry of IELTS 5.0 overall.

The experienced team of teachers will carefully guide students' development across the four key language skills. The course is designed to improve accuracy, fluency, and confidence across reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Here are some skills they can expect to develop across these four key areas:

SPEAKING - Giving presentations, participating in seminars and tutorials, working in groups.

LISTENING - Listening to lectures, note-taking techniques, listening skills practice.

READING - Strategies such as skimming and scanning, understanding assignment questions, coping with extended reading.

WRITING - Learning to construct paragraphs, essays, reports and summaries, analyses of numerical data and case studies, research and referencing techniques.