Short Course

**Students admitted should be Taught Postgraduate (TPg) candidates and enrolled on the recommendation of their TPg programmes upon verification of their English language qualifications.

This 60-hour course targets prospective postgraduate students who have reached an IELTS overall band score of 5.5 or equivalent qualifications. It is intended to stretch stronger students and enhance their language skills overall to prepare themselves for their postgraduate studies at Lingnan University. It adopts a communicative learning approach with a strong emphasis on practice. This course aims to advance students’ academic English through intensive practices in an interactive English learning environment.

The successful completion of this course indicates that you, the learner, have reliably demonstrated through successful examinations and assignments the ability to:

• identify opinions and attitudes, and state purposes of speakers;
• develop an argument, understand inferences and implied meaning;
• speak at length on a given topic using appropriate language and organising ideas coherently;
• express and justify opinions, and analyse, discuss and speculate about issues;
  read academic journal articles efficiently and identify the main points to make a valid critique of the ideas suggested;
• write a well-grounded discursive or opinion essay with real evidence paraphrased;
• listen for main ideas, specific factual information, attitude and speakers’ opinion; and
• actualize their academic English language skills and gain satisfactory scores from the listening, speaking, reading and writing assessments.

Students admitted should be Taught Postgraduate (TPg) candidates and enrolled on the recommendation of their TPg programmes upon verification of their English language qualifications.

The course schedule will be sent to enrolled students via email.

• Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, New Territories; or

• Lingnan University Union Park Learning Centre, No.771-775 Nathan Road, Kowloon

HK$10,000