Academic English skills for international students
I have found that out that some of the most popular pages on this site are those with videos of students talking about university. So, time to add another one! Here’s Mike talking about his finances. I think you’ll find his comments on the cost of living very interesting. The new page on this site … Read more
A few weeks ago I pointed out Manchester University’s academic phrasebank to students in a lecture. If you don’t know about it (you should!) it introduces lots of different ‘academic language chunks’ that you can use in essays such as In the last few years there has been increasing interest in ….. At the end … Read more
Over twenty years ago I spent a year in Turkey and at the time I could communicate quite well in Turkish. I have started to have Turkish lessons recently and I have forgotten everything! That’s quite depressing, but the good thing is that it has made me think again about how hard it is to … Read more
Students generally don’t read academic journal articles. (Well, for that matter, how many people do?) The thing is, these journal articles show you exactly what Academic English really is. The reason students don’t generally read journal articles is that they don’t know where to find them and if they do find one, then it is … Read more