Many studies show that mastery of the written language and, above all, the ability to adapt to a particular communication context (that of the University) contribute to success in bac 1. However, students begin their university careers with a variety of tools, and the appropriation of the "access codes" and written conventions used in higher education is rarely the subject of explicit information or teaching.
The aim of LEA is to acculturate incoming students to the demands of writing and reading in an academic context and thus contribute to their success.
What does LEA have to offer?
LEA is a set of 4 online courses (hosted on WebCampus) linked to 4 genres of text considered crucial in a university curriculum:
- Understanding a scientific text
- Writing a formal e-mail
- Understanding and responding to a instruction or question
- Reflective writing
Each course is subdivided into sections working on a particular skill linked to the text genre (15 sections in all). Learn more
Each section begins with a diagnostic course that orients to a personalized course of contextualized exercises, progressive and giving rise to commented answers and theoretical reminders. Tool cards can be downloaded.
Who is LEA for?
- Mainly for entrant students; the device is also highly recommended for repeating students.
- For students enrolled in courses with a reflective dimension (agrégations, Service Learning)
- For teachers sensitive to the implicit dimension of exchanges in an academic context and keen to question their modes of communication.
How does LEA work?
LEA offers personalizedonline exercise paths consisting of 8 to15 exercises in context with feedback and commentary.
Everyone progresses at their own pace and can interrupt their path at any time, with the system saving work as they go.
The courses offered in autonomy can, however, be combined with face-to-face:
- work on a PC in an auditorium,
- online homework at first, group explanations and questions-answers at a later stage,
- training tool (drill) after a lesson given by a teacher,
- assessment tool
- Teachers can monitor their students' attendance, results, number of attempts, and adjust their communication or teaching if necessary.
When to use LEA
- At the beginning of the year (or during the preparatory weeks) for the course devoted to formal e-mail
- Early in the first quadrimester for the course devoted to scientific text
- In end of term for the course devoted to the reading of instructions
- Anytime in certain curricula, for the course devoted to reflective writing
What other measures are in place to help students succeed at LEA?
- Aux semaines préparatoires (August) to raise awareness of the particularities and requirements of writing in an academic context;
- Aux Midis méthodo (Le métier d'étudiant, La préparation du blocus);
- Aux entretiens méthodo offered by FASEF ;
- To individual appointments within faculty pedagogical support cells;
- To activities to reinforce prerequisites linked to the Passport "Reading and understanding an academic text";
- To ReBOND training (in written communication and spelling reinforcement courses).
Who can benefit from LEA?
- LEA is open to any∙e registered∙e student∙e and anyone teaching at UNamur.
- Self-registration only is required.
- LEA1 - Understanding a scientific text
- LEA2 - Writing a formal e-mail
- LEA3 - Understanding and responding to an instruction or question
- LEA4 - Reflective writing