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.