| Skills (out of 57 students) | Specific objectives (responses) | Means/measures | Frequency (Token) | Overall (out of 57 students) |
| Writing (8) | Appropriate use of (new) words in writing (1) | - Do exercises (1) - Build a mini-database for expressions used in movies and research papers (1) - Search in corpus for usage of words (1) | 1/11 (9.1%) | 8/57 (14.0%) |
| Use of various sentence patterns (3) | - Jot down different kinds of sentence structures when reading newspapers, books, articles etc. (1) - Identify sentence structures in research papers (1) - Read book references about sentence structure (2) - Rewrite articles by using various sentence patterns (1) - Write diary and read many books (1) | 3/11 (27.3%) | ||
| Awareness of different writing styles and formats (5) | - Read sample writings (1) - Watch TV programmes to learn how juniors should address to seniors (1) - Read English news and identify the nominalization (1) - Read book reference and follow its guideline to analyze formal writings’ features (1) - Read grammar books and finish exercises (1) - Re-write news reports or listening materials like interviews (1) | 5/11 (45.5%) | ||
| Essay writing skills (1) | - Read academic paper and analyze its word usages (1) - Do exercises about academic writing style (e.g. quoting) (1) | 1/11 (9.1%) | ||
| Correct use of punctuation mark (1) | - Do exercises (1) - Read articles and analyze how punctuation marks are used (1) - Keep a record of what have been learned (1) | 1/11 (9.1%) | ||
| Speaking (2) | Confidence/Language competency (1) | - Talk to native speakers (1) - Watch dramas (1) | 1/2 (50%) | 2/57 (3.5%) |
| Presentation (1) | - Watch presentations made by famous scholars and practice at home (1) | 1/2 (50%) | ||
| Vocabulary (37) | Metaphors (1) | - Differentiate different types of metaphor (1) - Identify metaphor usages in the journal articles (1) | 1/39 (2.6%) | 37/57 (64.9%) |
| Increase knowledge related to phrasal verbs (1) | - do exercises on grammar books with note-taking (1) - practice the usages of phrasal verbs in daily conversation (1) | 1/39 (2.6%) | ||
| Collocation learning (29) | - Do grammar exercises (18) - Read book references and online materials about collocation (12) - Read academic papers and articles to identify the collocation patterns and their meanings, functions (2) - Read newspapers and magazine articles for authentic collocation patterns (11) - Get aware of the collocation pattern when writing essays (1) - Read well-written articles and learn the collocation patterns used (1) - Do some listening to identify collocation patterns in the conversation or speech (1) - Write a report to summarize my findings (1) - Write short essays to practice collocation usages (3) - Write sentences to practice each collocation pattern (3) - Jot down collocation patterns of words (2) - Watch TV news to jot down some commonly used collocations (1) - Watch movies to note down some collocation patterns (1) - Learn from some grammar books (1) - Use corpus to analyze words’ collocation pattern (3) - Search and analyze collocations among different types of texts (1) - Ask teachers/classmates for advices (1) - Have discussions with others after reading books (1) - Keep a log book (1) - Write reflective essays (1) | 29/39 (74.4%) |