Includes a glossary and transcripts.

"English for ICT Studies is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of ICT who are about the enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist ICT language they need to participate successfully within an ICT faculty. Extensive listening exercises come from ICT lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key ICT vocabulary that students will need.

Listening: how to understand and take effective notes on extended lectures, including how to follow the argument and identify the speaker's point of view.

Speaking: how to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations, from seminars to presentations, including how to develop an argument and use stance markers.

Reading: how to understand a wide range of texts, from academic textbooks to Internet articles, including how to analyze complex sentences and identify such things as the writer's stance.

Writing: how to produce coherent and well-structured assignments, including such skills as paraphrasing and the use of the appropriate academic phrases.

Vocabulary: a wide range of activities to develop students' knowledge and use of key vocabulary, both in the field of psychology and of academic study in general.

Vocabulary and Skills banks: a reference source to provide students with revision of the keywords and phrases and skills presented in each unit.

Full transcripts of all listening exercises.

Intended for students of ICT who are about to enter English medium tertiary level studies. Designed for students of upper intermediate to proficiency level (CEF B2-C2).

The Garnet English for Specific Academic Purposes series covers a range of academic subjects. All titles present the same skills and vocabulary points. Teachers can therefore deal with a range of ESAP courses at the same time, knowing that each subject title will focus on the same key skills and follow the same structure" (Book Cover).

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Topics Defining ICT Introduction to different aspects of ICT

Vocabulary Focus Words from general English with a special meaning in ICT Prefixes and suffixes

Skills Focus

Listening Preparing for a lecture Predicting lecture content from the introduction Understanding lecture organization Choosing an appropriate form of notes Making lecture notes

Speaking Speaking from notes

Unit 2: ICT in the workplace (Reading + Writing)

Topics Impact of ICT on business, including communication, information management and product design Impact of ICT on the nature of work, including teleworking and outsourcing

Vocabulary Focus English-English dictionaries: headwords, definition, parts of speech, phonemes, stress markers, countable/uncountable, transitive/intransitive

Skills Focus

Reading Using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text Using topic sentences to get an overview of the text

Writing Writing topic sentences Summarizing a text

Unit 3: Introduction to ICT systems (Listening + Speaking)

Topics Embedded and general purpose systems Data storage and management Control systems Communication systems Functions of ICT systems (data capture, processing and output)

Vocabulary Focus Stress patterns in multi-syllable words Prefixes

Skills Focus

Listening Preparing for a lecture Predicting lecture content Making lecture notes Using different information sources

Speaking Reporting research findings Formulating questions

Unit 4: ICT in education (Reading + Writing)

Topics Use of computers and the Internet in research and learning Computer-assisted learning (CAL), virtual learning environments (VLEs) and their impact on teaching

Vocabulary Focus Computer jargon Abbreviations and acronyms Discourse and stance markers Verb and noun suffixes

Skills Focus

Reading Identifying topic development within a paragraph Using the Internet effectively Evaluating Internet search results

Writing Reporting research findings

Unit 5: The history of ICT (Listening + Speaking)

Topics Key stages in the development of the computer (inventions and innovations) Development of computer components (input, output, processing and storage) Foundations of the Internet

Vocabulary Focus Word sets: synonyms, antonyms, etc. The language of trends Common lecture language

Skills Focus

Listening Understanding "signpost language" in lectures Using symbols and abbreviations in note-taking

Speaking Making effective contributions to a seminar

Unit 6: The Internet (Reading + Writing)

Topics Internet protocols and data transfer Web 2.0 and the future of the Internet Social networking services (SNS)

Vocabulary Focus Synonyms, replacement subjects, etc., for sentence-level paraphrasing

Skills Focus

Reading Locating key information in complex sentences

Writing Reporting findings from other sources: paraphrasing Writing complex sentences

Unit 7: Software development (Listening + Speaking)

Topics Development methods and processes Waterfall, iterative and prototyping models Waterfall, iterative and prototyping models Planning the development process Open source software

Vocabulary Focus Compound nouns Fixed phrases from ICT Fixed phrases from academic English Common lecture language

Skills Focus

Listening Understanding speaker emphasis

Speaking Asking for clarification Responding to queries and requests for clarification

Unit 8: Efficiency in computer systems (Reading + Writing)

Topics Efficiency in computer systems Reliability, security, speed and cost

Vocabulary Focus Synonyms Nouns from verbs Definitions Common "direction" verbs in essay titles (discuss, analyze, evaluate, etc.)

Skills Focus

Listening Using the Cornell note-taking system Recognizing digressions in lectures

Speaking Making effective contributions to a seminar Referring to other people's ideas in a seminar

Unit 10: E-commerce and e-government (Reading + Writing)

Topics Types of e-commerce: B2B, B2C, C2C, B2G Barriers to adoption of e-commerce

Vocabulary Focus "Neutral" and "marked" words Fixed phrases from ICT Fixed phrases from academic English

Skills Focus

Reading Recognizing the writer's stance and level of confidence or tentativeness Inferring implicit ideas

Writing Writing situation-problem-solution-evaluation essays Using direct quotations Compiling a bibliographic/reference list

Unit 11: Computing and ethics (Listening + Speaking)

Topics Laws and regulations, including copyright Principles and ethics, including privacy and surveillance The role of hacking

Vocabulary Focus Words/phrases used to link ideas (moreover, as a result, etc.) Stress patterns in noun phrases and compounds Fixed phrases from academic English Words/phrases related to ethics in computing

Skills Focus

Listening Recognizing the speaker's stance Writing up notes in full

Speaking Building an argument in a seminar Agreeing/disagreeing

Unit 12: ICT in the future (Reading + Writing)

Topics Virtual and mirror worlds Augmented reality (AR) Lifelogging Using technological growth curves to predict future development

Vocabulary Focus Verbs used to introduce ideas from other sources (x contends/suggests/asserts that...) Linking words conveying contrast (whereas), result (consequently), reasons (due to), etc. Words for quantities (a significant minority)

Skills Focus

Reading Understanding how ideas in a text are linked

Writing Deciding whether to use direct quotation or paraphrase Incorporating quotations Writing research reports Writing effective introductions/conclusions