Developing a curriculum for the introduction of English study skills in early tertiary education

该研究项目旨在通过制定课程和教学大纲以及开发各种教育材料来培养大学基础教育（特别是大学一年级学生）的基本英语学习技能，这些教材有意识地建设性地应用多媒体和积累的知识来管理这些课程。作为创新大学英语教育的一种形式，教材的开发是基于教育学和学习的基础研究，旨在促进大学初级阶段英语学习技能的习得。本研究的一些显著特征包括：(1)将应用重点放在大学入门阶段；(2)将以前的研究应用于大学早期教育，学生已经在一定程度上接受过英语教学，但在学术能力和学习者需求的多样性方面存在个体差异，英语语言教育必须能够跨越各个专业领域。(3)一个既有语言教育背景，又有心理语言学、语料库语言学和社会语言学等专业背景的研究小组，他们与教育技术专家合作，这意味着他们能够开发出不仅仅针对英语教育的教材。具体而言，我们围绕核心语言技能设置了10个主题，课程从it相关技能、语音重点、语法/词汇重点和个人项目的角度进行了组织。根据该课程，编写了一套教育材料的试点版本，题为“学术英语技能的第一步-英语学术技能介绍”。

This research project aimed to foster basic study skills in English for foundation level university education (especially among first year university students) by formulating a curriculum and syllabus and developing a variety of educational materials which consciously and constructively apply multimedia and accumulated know-how to the task of managing such classes. As one form of innovative university English education, the materials were developed based around fundamental research on pedagogy and learning in order to promote the acquisition of English study skills at the beginning university level.Some of the distinctive features of this research include, (1) an applied focus on the introductory university level, (2) the application of previous research into early university education, where students have already been taught English to some degree, but where individual differences in academic ability and a diversity of learner needs exist, and English language education must be able to cross into various specialist fields, (3) a research team with a background in not only language education but also specialist fields such as psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics working in conjunction with experts in educational technology, meaning that they were able to develop teaching materials that address more than simply English education.Specifically, ten themes were set based around core Language Skills, and the curriculum was organized from the viewpoint of IT-Related Skills, Sound Focus, Grammar/Vocabulary Focus and an individual Project. Based on that curriculum, a pilot edition of a set of educational materials was developed, entitled "First Steps in Academic English Skills- an introduction to academic skills in English" .