LEAP Level 6

In LEAP 6, students practice applying specific strategies and skills that build language proficiency within an academic context. Materials are used not only to develop language, but also to teach students specific strategies and skills that will enable them to be successful college and university students in North America. Students attend authentic college lectures and gain experience taking and organizing their lecture notes into levels of information. They make detailed margin notes from articles, chunk information in a text, and write summaries, paragraphs, and essays which include the synthesis of information from different sources. As students in LEAP 6 are fast approaching university studies, one of the primary goals of this level is to foster independent learning and assist students to become more self-directed in their studies. Registration in this course is restricted to students admitted to the Langara English for Academic Purposes program.