Academic English skills for international students
Grammar focus: have yet to The phrase ‘have yet to‘ can be confusing! The present perfect tense in English can be difficult at the best of times, and this phrase is another challenge for English learners. A student came to see me the other day with a letter that he couldn’t understand. He had applied … Read more
This example of a critical literature review from WRASSE at the University of Plymouth includes comments from a teacher. The comments show what the teacher likes about the student text. Check it out here: https://wrasse.plymouth.ac.uk/extract/academic-paper-review-arnfalk-p-et-al-2005-education-for-sustainable
Apostrophes: apostrophe challenge Apostrophes are so hard to use that now a council in Devon (the pretty part of England in the south-west where lots of people come on holiday!) is taking them out of road names! So: BAKER’S VIEW is now: BAKERS VIEW A lot of people are very unhappy about this! (Read about … Read more
Visuwords online graphical dictionary is a great resource for learning about words, their meanings and other related words. Let’s be honest, learning vocabulary can be hard work! Anything that makes learning new words, and learning about new words, more interesting is worth taking a look at and I’ve been enjoying myself with the Visuwords online … Read more