English for Academic Purposes

Our English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course is designed to help you excel in your chosen field. Learn to communicate with confidence and improve essential study skills in an English-speaking academic environment. You’ll engage in collaborative learning, structured self-study, and student teacher dialogue just as though you were studying a bachelor’s degree.

We offer a flexible teaching structure that is tailored to your future study choices. If you plan to study a Foundation Certificate or Murdoch University Preparation Course, then you’ll complete our English for Academic Purposes 1 (EAP1) course, with an entry of IELTS 5.0 overall. If you are preparing to enter university directly, you’ll complete English for Academic Purposes 2 (EAP2), with an entry of IELTS 5.5 overall.

Our experienced team of teachers will carefully guide your development across the four key language skills. Our course is designed to improve accuracy, fluency, and confidence across reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Here are some skills you can expect to develop across these four key areas:

SPEAKING
Giving presentations, participating in seminars and tutorials, working in groups.

LISTENING
Listening to lectures, note-taking techniques, listening skills practice.

READING
Strategies such as skimming and scanning, understanding assignment questions, coping with extended reading.

WRITING
Learning to construct paragraphs, essays, reports and summaries, analyses of numerical data and case studies, research and referencing techniques.