The EAP Toolkit is a comprehensive set of interactive learning resources for developing the language and study skills of international students and students whose first language is not English, for higher or further education. It comprises over 100 items (80+ hours of study) and can be used by students for independent study or by teachers in the classroom. It is available for licence by institutions and can be delivered over the web to students at a particular institution or through a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) such as Blackboard or Moodle. It has been licensed since 2004 and underwent a second refreshment in 2011.
The EAP Toolkit consists of seven folders. Click on the folder title to see the full list of contents.
Identifying the academic skills you need
Managing your study time
Setting your own goals and targets
The best conditions for learning
Planning how to meet your workload
Prioritising study tasks
Recognising your own approach to study
Active and reflective learning skills
Using tutor feedback to improve
Learning logs and reflective journals
Working with other people
Dictionary use and your learning
Evaluating different types of dictionary
Understanding stress
Managing stress
Understanding essay titles
Improving your paragraphs with topic sentences
Structuring your writing
Using examples to support written statements
Expressing fact and opinion in writing
Introduction to describing graphs and tables
Describing trends and change in graphs
Interpreting trends in graphs
Comparing data in graphs
Finding out about plagiarism
Identifying plagiarism and avoiding poor practice
Introduction to quoting and paraphrasing
Using quotations
Using paraphrase in writing
Understanding reference lists and bibliographies
Describing types of source in reference lists
Compiling a reference list
The role of the introduction in academic writing
Creating cohesion in your writing
Typical language that academic writers use
Introduction to revising your written work
Improving paragraph structure
Practise revising written work
Introduction to writing conclusions
Writing an effective conclusion
Proofreading a text
Presenting your written work
Introduction to reading skills
Prediction strategies for reading
Introduction to speed reading
Introduction to scanning
Scanning for specific information
Reading to identify main points
Skim-reading practice
Reading and critical thinking
Identifying text types
Good practice in note-taking to avoid plagiarism
Recognising fact, opinion and evidence in text
How to take good notes while listening
Prediction skills for listening
Using clues to understand lectures
Listening closely to presentations
Listening for signposting language
Focusing on the language in a lecture
Listening for and understanding new vocabulary
Listening for theme words and examples
Practising listening skills for lectures
Listening for key points in a science lecture
Recording data
Listening to a complex description
Listening to understand more difficult language
Contrasting spoken and written language
Communicating in seminars
Listening and speaking in seminars
How to deliver an oral presentation
Useful language for oral presentations
Speaking without hesitating
Sound linking in speech
Word and sentence stress
Unstressed aspects of pronunciation
Checking and clarifying when speaking
Contractions in speech
Recognising academic register
Communicating online
Communicating politely across cultures
The effect of culture in communication
Cultural stereotypes and generalisations in communication
Language and grammar for cause and effect
Understanding choice of tense
Reviewing verb groups
Structures for expressing purpose
Impersonal style and the passive form
When to use an article with a noun phrase
Assessing yourself on articles
Modal verbs and their meanings
Modal verbs in writing
Using noun phrases instead of clauses
Forming complex noun phrases
Reviewing dependent prepositions
Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives
Changing the emphasis in a sentence
Using colons and semi-colons
Introduction to hedging or cautious language
Recognising and using cautious language
The sentence
Simple and more complex sentences
Introduction to vocabulary learning
Building your vocabulary
Concordancing for vocabulary development
Language for classifying
Forming words with prefixes and suffixes
Homophones, homonyms and homographs
Confusable words
Introduction to abstract vocabulary
Stylistic effects of abstract vocabulary
The importance of semi-technical vocabulary
Phrasal verbs
Using idiomatic language
Researching specialist vocabulary
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