Academic Writing and Presentations for University Staff and Researchers – ETI-GN3
Executive Training Institute

COURSE SUMMARY:
This hands-on, prac cal one week course covers the language needed for presentations, talks and lectures, and deals with the delivery skills required in order to maximize the effectiveness of the presentations. It also introduces language for Academic Writing, focusing on vocabulary, grammar, formality, register, and style. Areas of Academic Writing tackled are Abstracts and Articles/Papers, with critical analysis of model abstracts. Participants work up to a presentation delivery by the end of the week, with feedback on both language and performance.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
This course is for tertiary sector educators and researchers who would like to improve their Presentation Skills, both for giving conference talks and lectures. It also aims to develop and enhance Academic Writing skills. Participants need to be at a B1 level of English.

PREPARATION:
After registration, partcipants on this course programme will receive:
- A pre-course questionnaire which will enable trainers to learn about the participants' teaching backgrounds
- Information about the Europass Mobility Certificate
- Information about Malta to prepare for their cultural experience

OBJECTIVES:
- To enable the development of be.er presentions, with accompanying language frameworks
- To introduce an awareness of ways of making presentations more effective in delivery
- To help participants reflect on their own writing of abstracts, and analyse it with reference to models of good and bad abstracts
- To help participants experience writing practice with regard to writing academic articles, with the aim of increasing vocabulary range, structures and register and style
- To further develop participants’ own general language skills and increase oral fluency
- To experience the cultural heritage of Malta with its bilingual linguistic environment

METHODOLOGY:
This course is taught interactively, with input sessions, and individual and collaborative work. Participants are actively involved in all sessions. Input sessions are in the form of hands-on workshops and could involve brainstorming, analysis and at times problem-solving. Sessions help participants develop language in a scaffolded setting. Participants are asked to reflect on their oral and written production, inviting discussion and feedback with regard to their own knowledge and skills.

FOLLOW UP:
- The course ends with an evaluation session, where teachers are asked to reflect upon the value of the knowledge gained on the course.
- They are also encouraged in this session to come up with a Personal Development Action Plan, and select activities which they would like to try out in their own classes.
- They are invited to join our Teacher Training Facebook community, which allows networking and contact with the trainers and fellow colleagues, and with participants from other courses.
- Participants are also encouraged to join communities for the POOLS Projects and otherrelated EU Projects, such as METHODS (Communicative Language Teaching Methods), TOOLS, and CLIL4U.
- In addition, participants are given a post-course 3 month subscription to e-Learning online site to further develop their language knowledge and skills.

SAMPLE PROGRAMME:
1) Monday
- Introductions; Geting to Know You; ICT Tools for Language Translation
- Giving Lectures; What makes a good presentation?
- Introductions to Presentations
- Language Frameworks
- Individual Presentations, Practice for Review
2) Tuesday
- Language Frameworks; Signposting, Dealing with Questions
- Language for Academic Writing
- Preparation of content slides for presentations
- Individual Presentations, Practice for Review
3) Wednesday
- Language for Academic Writing
- Writing an Abstract; Register, Formality etc.; Critical analysis of model abstracts: Good/Bad?
- Language Clinic Review: Presentations
- Individual Writing Practice for Review
4) Thursday
- Writing Articles; Formality, Register and Style
- From Written to Verbal; Differences between written language and spoken language
- Language for Academic Writing
- Individual Writing Practice for Review
5) Friday
- Language Clinic Review: Writing
- Individual presentations with feedback
- Wrap Up and Course Evaluation

PROGRAMME FEES INCLUDES:
- Tuition /Training (1 week) over 5 training days
- Social Programme including Half Day Guided Tours (to Malta’s Capital City Valletta / to the old Medieval City of Mdina)
- Airport Transfers : Shuttle Airport Transfers Arrival + Departure; from/to Malta Airport to /from Accommodation (when booked through our school only!)
- Mobility Euro Pass Certificate
- End-of-Course Certificate

OTHER INFORMATION:
- The School will be closed on public holidays. The schedule for the week including a public holiday will be adjusted to make up the lost training hours on the public holiday on that particular week.
- A social programme including weekly cultural guided tours will be confirmed every Monday. Participation on any activities is optional.
- Classes normally runs from 9:00-14:30 with two brakes. Number of lessons: 22,5 hours (1 lesson=60 min) + 2.5 hours of E learning self- study (5 homework on-line links; lessons about Malta, to cover the cultural aspects) + cultural tours. Therefore thw certificate lists 25 hours/week. If someone misses any lessons, eg 1.5h, it will show ‘ 23.5 hours out of 25 hours.