These courses will focus on a common core of skills in order to practice and enhance the use of English Language for a more effective academic communication. The teaching practices will be focused more on improving academic skills such as processing information, building critical and analytical skills through the research and evaluation of existing academic work as well as presenting and communicating academic ideas.

The study method will primarily be seminars and tutorials. Activities will include teacher input as well as individual and group work involving evaluating texts, analysis of published literature, mini presentations of research and discussions.

The main focus of Reading sessions will be on choosing the right texts for research project at hand, pre-reading skills, critical reading skills and taking notes from a reading texts or annotating texts.

The Listening sessions will mostly highlight the note-taking skills. It will also focus on decoding and fostering understanding of lecture content, planning, monitoring and evaluating the listening process.

The Speaking component of the ELC Programme aims to give participants an opportunity to develop and strengthen skills required for recognizing cultural conventions and speech, verbal and nonverbal messages, and techniques of oral presentation and persuasion.