Advanced Diploma in English Language
Develop advanced English communication skills through focused study of grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking, with practical applications in academic and professional contexts.
A closer look at your course
Develop advanced English communication skills through focused study of grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking, with practical applications in academic and professional contexts.
What you’ll learn
Learning objectives drawn from the published course content.
- Identify clause relations.
- Repair ambiguous reference.
- Explain a meaning-preserving revision.
- Distinguish completed and continuing events.
- Transform conditionals accurately.
- Retain actual versus hypothetical status.
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- Separate permission and possibility.
- Report claims with attribution.
- Calibrate evidence language.
- Choose precise lexical combinations.
- Use word families in context.
- Revise vague nominalisations.
- Adapt tone to relationship.
- Make explicit polite requests.
- Preserve commitments in rewrites.
- Resolve pronoun references.
- Choose logical connectors.
- Order a coherent paragraph.
- Separate document purposes.
- Locate supported details.
- Identify unresolved questions.
- Combine compatible records.
- Attribute disagreement.
- Avoid merging unknown groups.
- Calculate denominated proportions.
- Separate evidence and recommendation.
- Qualify generalisations.
- Write a clear subject and request.
- Distinguish request and approval.
- Edit for action and courtesy.
- Organise findings and recommendation.
- State alternatives and costs.
- Write a complete original proposal.
- Correct grammar and data.
- Explain meaningful edits.
- Retain original and revised versions.
- Listen before reading a transcript.
- Separate heard and inferred details.
- Verify actions and conditions.
- Deliver a coherent short briefing.
- Use phrasing and stress for meaning.
- Evaluate intelligibility with conditions.
- Clarify a conditional offer.
- Disagree with reasons and alternatives.
- Record shared and unresolved decisions.
- Select audience-relevant information.
- Explain unfamiliar terms.
- Preserve limits and uncertainty.
- Link documents and performances.
- Propagate factual corrections.
- Differentiate performance evidence.
- Defend integrated language choices.
- Score evidence with an original rubric.
- Prioritise a supported revision.
Inside the curriculum
Explore the published modules and lessons. Full lesson content is available through your student account, with free enrolment. Learning sequence and administrative access controls still apply.
01Grammar for Precise Professional Meaning3 lessons
Control clause structure, time and strength of claims.
- Controlling Complex Clauses Without Losing Meaning
- Managing Time Reference and Conditional Distance
- Calibrating Modality and Reporting Other People's Claims
02Vocabulary, Register and Cohesion3 lessons
Choose language that suits purpose and links ideas accurately.
- Choosing Precise Vocabulary and Useful Collocations
- Adapting Register Without Changing the Commitment
- Building Coherent Paragraphs and Recoverable References
03Reading, Synthesis and Evidence Language3 lessons
Interpret complete original records and construct bounded comparisons.
- Reading the Complete Harbour Communication Dossier
- Synthesising Records Without Flattening Their Differences
- Writing Numerical Claims and Evidence-Bounded Arguments
04Purposeful Writing and Revision3 lessons
Draft complete professional documents and check both language and facts.
- Writing an Action Email That the Reader Can Use
- Producing a Complete Report and Conditional Proposal
- Revising Language, Facts and Linked Meanings
05Listening, Speaking and Interaction3 lessons
Use real listening and performed speaking to support negotiated action.
- Listening Before Reading and Verifying What Was Heard
- Delivering an Intelligible Briefing and Checking Its Meaning
- Clarifying Offers and Negotiating a Feasible Action
06Mediation and Integrated English Portfolio3 lessons
Adapt information faithfully and demonstrate connected language decisions.
- Adapting Information Faithfully for a New Reader
- Keeping Written and Spoken Communication Consistent
- Capstone: Complete Advanced English Communication Portfolio
Is this course for you?
Who this is for
Adult learners developing precise English for professional and academic reading, writing, listening, speaking and collaborative communication.
Before you begin
Ability to read extended English texts independently, understand everyday spoken English and write connected paragraphs. Use the opening diagnostic to identify preparation needs; admission does not certify a CEFR level.
Who this is not for
Not a beginner course, an English-teaching licence, an immigration language test or a guarantee of C1/C2 proficiency. Practical performance requires actual listening and speaking beyond the portal multiple-choice paper.
Assessment & completion
20 scenario questions, 5 marks each (100 total), covering every lesson. Complete required lessons and select every correct answer before submission. Portfolio/capstone activities support self or instructor review; the portal does not collect or automatically grade projects and they are not an additional certificate gate. Credit allocation awaits institutional approval.
Materials & resources
6 modules with 18 complete lessons, reviewed sources, a connected fictional case, practice portfolio, scored capstone rubric and reusable template.