EAP5

STUDENT ORIENTATION

International school of Business (ISB)

2023

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Outline
1. General information
2. Course overview
3. EAP5 tests in details
4. EAP5 assessments in details
5. EAP5 exit requirements
6. Submission
7. Resubmission
8. Plagiarism
9. Attendance policy
10. Further information
11. Q&A
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General information
• EAP stands for English for Academic Purposes. The two levels 4 and 5 particularly
aims to prepare students for an English-speaking university environment.
• EAP5 is a course with skill-based/assessment-based curriculum.
• Two sets of skills are taught and tested in the course:
• Academic skills: do research, read selective materials, reference, read and
evaluate a piece of material, etc.
• Language skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking
• Both sets of skills are integrated and tested in a series of Assessments of this
course.
• Each class is instructed by two teachers: 3-day Teacher and 2-day Teacher.

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General information
• Official hours: 3 hours/day x 5 days/week x 9 weeks (Teacher in
charge)
• Compulsory tutoring hours: extra support for students: 5 hours/week
(Listening, Reading, and Writing) (Tutor in charge)
• Midterm tests: Wed/Thur Week 5; Final tests: Fri/Sat Week 9 (Exam
dates: no class time)
• Assessments include both tests and class assessments. (Midterm =
15%, Final = 20%, and all class assessments = 65%)
• Pathway: EAP4 => EAP5 => BBUS program stage 1

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Course overview
Mon/Day 1 Tue/Day 2 Wed/Day 3 Thur/Day 4 Fri/Day 5

Week 1 Course starts

Week 2 An essay about
Summerhill school
(feedback only)
Week 3
Week 4 Seminar begins Research Report
due date
Week 5 Midterm Midterm Midterm
NO CLASS NO CLASS NO CLASS
Week 6
Week 7 CLR due date
Week 8 Seminar ends
Week 9 Research Essay due Final
date NO CLASS
Week 10 Final x x x Course ends 5
NO CLASS
Assessment due dates

• Please refer to Assessments doc for the exact due dates of your
cohort.

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EAP5 Tests in details

• MIDTERM (15%) include Listening, Reading, and Writing

• FINAL (20%) include Listening, Reading, and Writing
Test total (35%) = the total score of both Midterm and Final.

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EAP5 Tests in details
SKILLS TESTED DETAILS

WRITING Students write an essay in 75 minutes on a given topic.

PERSUASIVE – ANALYTICAL style: Each body paragraph contains 5 elements:
• Topic sentence
• Supporting arguments
• Counter arguments
• Refutation
• Concluding sentence

READING Students read an article about 2 pages in length and answer several questions in 70
minutes.
LISTENING Students listen TWICE to a lecture, approx. 10 mins in length and answer several
questions in 5-10 minutes.
Notes The same test format for both Midterm and Final.

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EAP5 Tests in details
True/false/no evidence
• A few statements are given. Students are required to mark each as True, False, or No
evidence together with providing the line numbers where evidence can be found to
support their answers. The two sub-tasks are marked separately with each accounting for
0.5 points. That would mean If a statement is marked as No evidence, there is no need for
providing evidence (of course).
Vocabulary questions
• A few words/phrases are taken from the text. Each one is accompanied by 3-4 options,
and students are supposed to choose the one that mean the closest to the words given.

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 EAP5 Tests in details
Referencing questions:
• Referencing pronouns (e.g. this, it, him, her, he, she, they, etc.) are taken from the text
and students are required to specify which words/phrases each pronoun refers to.
Summary completion:
• A summary is given with a few spaces. Students are required to complete the summary
by filling in the spaces. The answers can be either words/phrases taken from the text or the
ones provided in a box.
Listing questions
• Students are required to list out a few items among the whole list given by speakers.
Sentence completion:
• Students complete the sentences with the words/phrases they hear.
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EAP5 Assessments in details
RESEARCH REPORT:
• Developed from Survey Report (EAP4)
• Length: 1,200 words
• Weight: 15%
• Due date: Day 5 Week 4
• Topic: to be advised/ informed every cohort
• Some research tasks (coming up with RQ, designing questionnaire,
conducting survey, collecting data) are done as a group, but students
are required to write up and submit their paper individually.
• Students are required to do some background reading.

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EAP5 Assessments in details
SEMINAR:
• You present a talk individually.
• Length: 15 -20 minutes of talk + 5-10 minutes of discussion
• Weight: 20 %
• List of topics are provided by WSU.
• Seminars start in Week 4 and ideally end in Week 8. Each student is
given/chooses a topic from the list and is scheduled within the timescale
between W4 and W8.
• You are advised to hand in their outline and/or ppt. to Teacher for feedback
before their presentation date. This is just an option.

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EAP5 Assessments in details
CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW (CLR):
• You are supposed to read, summarize, and evaluate two articles. The two articles
about a given topic are provided by your Teacher.
• Referencing: Harvard
• Topic: to be advised, the same as Research Essay topic
• Weight: 10%
• Length: 600 – 800 words
• Due date: Day 1 Week 7

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EAP5 Assessments in details
RESEARCH ESSAY:
• Students are required to write an essay after doing extensive
reading. Among the sources to be, there must be the two articles
used in CLR.
• Referencing: Harvard
• Topic: to be advised / same as CLR
• Persuasive – analytical style
• Weight: 20%
• Length: 1,200 words
• Due date: Day 1 Week 9
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EAP5 Assessments in details
IN SUMMARY:

Assessments Weight (%)

Research Report 15 Course Total = 100

Seminar 20

CLR 10

Research Essay 20

Midterm (L+R+W/ 15 Test Total =

3) 35
Final (L+R+W/ 3) 20

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EAP5 Exit requirements
In order to pass EAP5, students
have to meet ALL four
requirements:
1. Score at least 17.5/35 marks in
test total.
2. Score at least 50% in every class
assessment (including: RR, Sem,
RE)
3. The failure in Critical Literature
Review does not count, but:
Score at least 15/30 in the CLR +
RE
4. Score at least 55/100 in the
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Possible scenarios that will lead to an overall
fail verdict:
Research CLR Research Seminar Test Total Course Total Verdict
Report /10 Essay /20 /35 /100
/15 /20
7.5/15 5/10 10/20 10/20 17.5/35 50/100 Fail

Research CLR Research Seminar Test Total Course Total Verdict

Report /10 Essay /20 /35 /100
/15 /20
9.5/15 6/10 13/20 12/20 17/35 57.5/100 Fail

Research CLR Research Seminar Test Total Course Total Verdict

Report /10 Essay /20 /35 /100
/15 /20
9.5/15 4.0/10 10.5/20 14/20 20/35 58/100 Fail

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Submission policy
1. By due date, you need to submit the soft copy of your assignment paper via
Canvas https://learn.efu.edu.vn/login/canvas
2. Late submissions will be marked down by 1 point per working day.
3. If any technical error occurs during the submission process, you are advised to
capture your screen with specific date and time on the bottom right corner.
Then you submit your paper together with the screenshot as evidence to the
EAP email address: englishprogram@isb.edu.vn as soon as possible.

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Submission policy
4. You can submit your work in either
Word or PDF format.
5. Make sure you have
the EAP5 Assignment Cover Sheet
as the front page.

6. Your work should be named properly.

A standard format should be:
[Class code] _ Assignment _ Your Full Name _
Your ID
e.g. [EAP5-0522-1] _ Research Report _ Le Thuy
Linh _ 22001199
EAP5 Resubmission
• Applied only to Research Report and Research Essay
• Resubmissions are marked on a fail/pass basis, and gain 50% score
max
• NOT applied to Seminar
• Failed Literature Review NOT necessarily to be resubmitted
• You might be asked to resubmit any assessments if failed. Normally
you are allowed three working days to complete your resubmission.
And you need to upload your resubmission onto EFU Canvas as well.

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Plagiarism
“Plagiarism is when you use someone else’s ideas without showing clearly where
they come from, or pretending they are your own ideas. For example:
• handing in someone else's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving them credit
• failing to use quotation marks when you quote someone’s words
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing a few words in a sentence but leaving the rest of it the same, with or
without crediting the source
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of
your work, whether you give credit or not
• handing in work that you already used for another assignment (self-plagiarism)”
(taken from:
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/studysmart/home/study_with_integrity/what_
is_it)
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EAP5 Policies about plagiarism
Level Signals PENALTY
< 20% In-text referencing is No penalty applied
provided

No quotation marks

20 -50 % No citations Deduct marks

No quotation marks

> 50% Plagiarized text detected Resubmit

10/20 max

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Attendance policy
• Teachers check your attendance TWICE each day (two
sessions per class day). Also, you have their attendance
checked in your tutoring sessions.
• You will be marked Absent if you are late for more than 15
minutes of each session.
• IMPORTANT: Students who are absent for more than 20% of
the class time will be banned from exams.

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Online/Offline classroom regulations
Be on time

Dress appropriately

Cell phone use is not allowed unless used for

academic purposes and/or allowed by teachers.

Do not eat during class time

You can eat before class or during break time

[online class] Mute your mic and turn on your camera

Resources available to students
• Learner Manual (aka Student’s book) (LM)
• Daily handouts
• e-learning account
• Classroom facilities

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What to bring to your offline classroom?
• A laptop
• A notebook and some pens/pencils
• Learning materials (either printed or electronic version)

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 Email Communication
Person in charge Email addresses
EAP official email address: englishprogram@isb.edu.vn

• Email is the official communication channel between students and the

EAP Team. Make sure you check your email inbox on a regular basis.
• You can write your email in either English or Vietnamese.

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 Composing an email 3.1 Recipients: People who
receive this email and are
3.2 cc: people who might
need to be informed of what
directly involved is going on but might not
directly handle the issue
Bcc: unrevealed recipients
2. Subject: A
title that briefly
summarizes/
highlights the 1. Compile the
contents below email contents
in the blank area

4. A signature
can tell who you
are and give
your email a
professional
look

5. Click ‘Send’ after you

check everything
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carefully
A good email should:
• have a clear, concise subject title. An email without a subject title might look
rude and is likely not to be responded promptly.
• start with greetings (e.g. Dear EAP Program, Kính gửi chương trình Tiếng Anh,
…) and end with “Best” “Best regards” “Regards” “Thanks” “Trân trọng” etc.
• use appropriate language
• contain grammar, word choice, spelling, and punctuation that are all carefully
checked before sending.
• have attachments as mentioned in your email

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Replying to an email
• When you reply to an email, make sure your reply and the
incoming email cover the same theme.
• When you write about something different/irrelevant with the
incoming email, you should compose a new one. In other words,
one email chain should be of the same topic.

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For offline, face-to-face contact:
• Visit the EAP office on Floor 2, VVT Campus: 41-43 Vo Van Tan,
District 3, HCMC during business hours (8AM to 5PM).

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