Welcome to the homepage of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pre-sessional course!
This intensive EAP course is suitable for all students at or above CEFR level B1 who would like to improve their English language skills to help them with their studies, regardless of the programme they will be attending at the university. Whether your course is taught in English and you need to use it on a daily basis or your course is taught in German but you worry about having to research journal articles and other materials in English, this course will be useful to you.
Autumn 2016 course schedule:
Tue 20.09. - Tue 27.09. 2016 (6 days overall), 09:00-16:00 in these seminar rooms:
Tue 20.09.: H-B 4419/20
Wed 21.09.-Fri 23.09. and Mon 26.09.-Tue 27.09.: H-C 6321
Please fill in and email me this registration form 
. I will reply to confirm your place on the course. If you have any questions in the meantime please do not hesitate to contact me. (If you have registered, but know you cannot attend, please let me know.)
Contact details:
Lenka Gorfman
LINUS Advisor
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Siegen
mat-nat.advisor@nt.uni-siegen.de
Tel.: 0271/740-3705 (office ENC-B014) or 0271/740-4415 (office H-F016)
Assignments
Written Assignments
Summary, Essay, Report
1) Wednesday 21 Sep 24:00
2) Saturday 24 Sep 22:00
Please do not forget to include a list of references (see BCU document below).
Suggested topics (please feel free to write about any research topic that interests you):
nNESTs
Disability in the classroom (equity, diversity)
German learners of English
Robots in relationships with humans
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
Brexit
New sustainable (building) materials
Ethics in Finance (e.g. Wolfgang Schäuble, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo)
Presentations
1) Thursday 22 Sep (based on Assignment 1)
2) Monday 26 Sep (based on Assignment 2)
Recommended Books:
Cambridge series 
(various levels), Academic Vocabulary in Use , Advanced Language Practice , Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students (easy), Academic Writing for Graduate Students (difficult), Practical English Usage (excellent reference)
Links
Reading and Vocabulary
Dictionaries: Cambridge 
, Oxford , Merriam-Webster , Thesaurus
German-English dictionaries: Pons , BEOLINGU
Expats or immigrants Guardian article
Writing
Directory of Open Access Journals
Steven Pinker's lecture on communicating science
Resources for describing graphs 
(IELTS)
Harvard referencing system document from BCU
Listening and Speaking
Useful Links from Warwick CAL--
Sounds of Speech from the University of Iowa
Fun
Bad Project Lady Gaga parody from the Zheng Lab can be found here
Mark Twain's The Awful German Language (Appendix D, A Tramp Abroad)
Useful Links:
Project Gutenberg and LibriVox (If this is something you are interested in and want to support, there is an opportunity to volunteer for both websites, also in German.)
Open University: English and Skills
Writing a CV:
UK: CV templates for both professional and academic CVs at jobs.ac.uk , University of Warwick , Prospects (a graduate careers website), University of Oxford
USA: The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Washington
Canada: McGill University, University of Victoria , academic CVs -- University of Toronto
Australia and New Zealand: University of Auckland , Monash University