The Bridging Program helps students prepare for graduate study conducted in English at AIT by strengthening students’ English proficiency and academic abilities, specifically by developing their potential to plan and carry out research work and their confidence and skills to undertake self-directed learning. Students will live and learn in an English-speaking environment, become accustomed to the way things work at AIT, and begin to feel at home in AIT’s multicultural community.
The Bridging Program is limited to candidates who have been nominated the Schools.
Bridging Program Schedule
For August 2021 Intake
Duration: 14 June – 23 July 2021 (6 weeks)
Time: 9:00 – 15:00; Monday to Friday
Cost: 25,000 Thai Baht (Contact your program for available scholarships for the Bridging Program.)
Application deadline: 4 June 2021
Contact the AIT Admission via admissions@ait.ac.th if you wish to join the program
The aim of the Bridging Program at AIT is to prepare students who are limited users of English for graduate level academic programs conducted in English and life at AIT. Here is a list of specific objectives:
To improve students’ general English proficiency for oral and written communication
To familiarize students with English in academic contexts and the resources available to guide their usage
To help them develop independent study and learning strategies
To become attentive participants in lecture and discussion courses
To utilize texts, spoken and written, for academic purposes as sources of knowledge, support for arguments, etc.
To familiarize them with the genre and the discourse of their study fields and to cite and refer to sources responsibly
To engage in investigative research projects
To produce technical reports and reviews of literature on topics related to their fields of study
Bridging Students are immersed in a variety of social as well as academic situations such as seminars, meetings, interviews, lectures and collaborative group projects, while also developing their independent learning skills by constructing and carrying out individual study plans. A need for undergraduate coursework is identified and foundation courses are arranged. The course are conducted in English following the academic format of presentation plus discussion with regular assignments.
The Bridging Program consists of 3 main components.
Academic English:
- Academic Writing: Fundamentals of grammar; academic and technical vocabulary and devices; lecture comprehension and note-taking methods; writing about data and processes. Coherence and Cohesion through work on sentence and paragraph structure and linking; patterns of organization, the essay.
- Communication Skills: activities focusing on improving students’ pronunciation and speaking skills, and overall confidence when using English to communicate on a daily basis; discussions and debates;
- Presentation Skills: principles of effective presentations; elements of good visuals for graphic presentation of information
Personal Development: The Bridging Program is also aimed at helping our students to enhance their personal development so that they can become desirable assets in international organizations after they graduate from AIT. To accomplish this, the Bridging Program also focuses on:
- Goal setting
- Interpersonal communication skills
- Intercultural communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Conflict management skills.
Research Skills: The Bridging Program is aimed to instill the research mindset in our students. Students will learn how to properly generate research questions, create an effective literature review and discuss findings.
As the final products of the Bridging Program, students produce a ‘term paper’ or extended essay, a powerpoint presentation and a poster presentation on a topic related to their work or future study.