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KARIN MACDONALD Promoting a Particular View of Learner Autonomy Through an English Language Syllabus

138 Karin Macdonald Figure 1 Proposed Syllabus for LP Units 1 to 4 Key: Wk = Week Wk Topic» Introduction to (Negotiated College Life with other LP Teaching Staff) (Negotiated with other LP Teaching Staff) (Negotiated with other LP Teaching Staff) Travel and Tourism Finding Information Taking and Making Notes Reading Strategies: Listening Strategies: Predicting/ Predicting/ Skimming/ Language Functions Scanning Reading Strategies: Note-Taking Specific from Listening Information A The Arts and Academic Writing: Vocabulary Listening Discourse Entertainment Establishing Focus Strategies: Reading Functions Environment and Health News and Media English as a Global Language Hungary: Past, Present and Future Academic Writing: Narrowing Focus and Planning Academic Writing: Paragraphs Academic Writing: Summarising and Paraphrasing Academic Writing: Text Cohesion Techniques Text Genres and Appropriate Register Contrastive rhetoric Proof Reading Strategies Conventions of Academic Writing Finding Information: Dictionaries Note-Taking from Listening Extensive Reading: Listening Practice: English for Strategies Academic Purposes Extensive Reading: Vocabulary English for Development Academic Purposes Strategies Text Cohesion: Analysis Text Genres and Appropriate Register: Analysis Project Work (negotiated with students) Project Work (negotiated with students) Project Work (negotiated with students) Listening Practice (collective student task choice) Communicative Tasks (collective student taBk choice) Listening Practice (collective Btudent task choice) (Negotiated with other LP Teaching Staff) Developing Thinking Skills Asking Critical Questions Asking Critical Questions Seminar Discussion Strategies Discourse Analysis: Speech vs. Writing Speaking for Academic Purposes: Presentations Organising Oral Presentations Organising Oral Presentations Oral Presentations (student topic choice) Communicative Tasks Oral Presentations (collective student (student topic task choice) choice) Listening Practice (collective student task choice) Oral Presentations (student topic choice) Conventions of Project Work Academic Writing (negotiated with students) Communicative Tasks Oral Presentations (collective student (student topic task choice) choice) The proposed syllabus essentially prioritises the development of skills where "learning to do something with or through language is the primary objective" (Yalden 1988: 34). The skills featured are those involved with English for general academic purposes (Blue 1988) as the course is concerned with developing students' general study competence in preparation for their English degree course. Most of the syllabus presented in this paper is prespecified but there are elements to be negotiated between teachers and learners. Opportunities are given to learners to collaborate with each other and work on an individual basis. The topics (figure 1, column 2) are intended to stimulate discussion and provide a platform to develop students' critical thinking skills, providing a bridge between study on LP units and subject specialist related studies in