●                    acquire English language understanding and usage skills, and also knowledge of  the specialized vocabulary related to the field of Social Policy.

●                    comprehend scientific texts of medium difficulty related to the field of Social Policy

●                    exchange opinion and conduct productive dialogues with their fellow students, in English

●                    use printed and electronic English dictionaries, in order to be able to create their own bilingual (Greek-English) dictionary.

AcademicSkills:

1.                    Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using ICT, such as online dictionaries

2.                    Acquire new vocabulary and terminology related to the field of Social Policy

3.                    Learn new grammatical and syntactical structures both in written and oral speech.

Decision making

Autonomous work

Teamwork

Demonstration of social responsibility and sensitivity to a multicultural society

Critical thinking

Promoting free, creative and inductive reasoning

2.             Lecture 2Academic Word List1: Academic disciplines / Analyzing Visual Data/ Research in Social Sciences,  Grammar: Past tenses

3.             Lecture 3Academic Word List2: Classification/ Structure/ Time/ Trends/ Change/ Quantity, Grammar: Perfect tenses

4.             Lecture 4Academic Word List3: Cause and Effect/ Compare and Contrast/ Problem and Solution/ Evidence/ Theory and Concepts/ Belief and Opinion, Grammar: Future tenses, Countable and uncountable nouns

5.             Lecture 5Academic Word List4: Word Families/ Nouns and Noun Phrases/ Word combinations/ Affixes / collocations

6.             Lecture 6Academic Structures 1: Key Nouns for Academic English

7.             Lecture 7Academic Structures 2: Key Verbs for Academic English, Numbers and trends (Cardinal/Ordinal numbers, Describing trends)

8.             Lecture 8 Academic Structures 3: Key Adjectives for Academic English,

9.             Lecture 9Academic Structures 4: Phrasal Verbs in Academic English, Passive voice

10.          Lecture 10 Word Classes – nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs (derivatives and sentence writing)

11.          Lecture 11 Word Families and Word Parts – (prefixes), Talking aboutsources, facts, evidence and data, Conditionals 1 and 2,

12.          Lecture 12Talking about numbers, statistics, graphs and diagrams, Conditional 3, Prepositions

13.          Lecture 13 Revision – TED talk on Social Policy- analysis and discussion

Using ICT and the internet

Uploading teaching material, announcements and communicating with students through e-class.

Communication with students using email

Language of evaluation: English (and Greek)

Summative evaluation: final written examination (100%)

Campbell, C. (2012). English for Academic Study-Vocabulary, Garnet Publishing Ltd., Reading.

De Chazal, E., & Moore, J. (2013). Oxford EAP: a Course in English for Academic Purposes: Advanced / C1. Oxford University Press.

Mc Carthy M., & O’Dell F. (2016). Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge University Press.

Morley, J. (2017). The Academic Phrasebank-An Academic Writing Recourse for Students and Researchers, The University of Manchester.

Paterson, K. & Wedge, R., (2013) Oxford Grammar for EAP, Oxford University Press.

Slaght, J. (2012). English for Academic Study-Reading, Garnet Publishing Ltd.

Vicary, A., (2014) English for Academic Study – Grammar for Writing, Garnet Publishing Ltd.

Wallwork, A. (2016). English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises, Springer.