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

这项研究项目旨在通过制定课程和教学大纲，并开发各种教材，自觉和建设性地将多媒体和积累的知识应用于管理此类班级的任务，从而培养基础水平大学教育(特别是一年级大学生)的基本英语学习技能。作为一种创新的大学英语教育形式，这些材料是基于对教学法和学习的基础研究而开发的，以促进在大学起步阶段获得英语学习技能。这项研究的一些显著特点包括：(1)应用于大学入门水平；(2)将先前的研究应用于早期大学教育，在早期大学教育中，学生已经被教授了一定程度的英语，但存在学术能力的个体差异和学习者的不同需求，英语教育必须能够交叉进入各种专业领域，(3)一个不仅有语言教育背景，而且有心理语言学、语料库语言学和社会语言学等专门领域背景的研究小组，与教育技术专家合作，能够开发出不仅仅涉及英语教育的教材。具体地说，围绕核心语言技能设置了十个主题，并从与信息技术相关的技能、声音焦点、语法/词汇焦点和个人项目的角度组织了课程。在该课程的基础上，编写了一套教育材料的试行版本，题为《学术英语技能的第一步--英语学术技能入门》。

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" .