Academic English skills for international students
Today I am giving you a link to a website packed full of exercises with audio clips attached to them. When you look at the homepage for this site you need to scroll down the page and then you will see a title saying “Listening quizzes for Academic Purposes” and under this you will see … Read more
One of my overseas students recently told me that he understood only about half of what he heard in his lectures! I think it is probably unusual to understand only half but I think it does show many of the difficulties that overseas students face. The important thing that overseas students need to realise is … Read more
Today I am going to show you a link to an impressive site created by Sandra Haywood at the University of Nottingham where you can really improve your understanding and use of academic vocabulary. The exciting thing about this site is that you make the exercises, using your texts. The problem with many exercises you … Read more
A few words today about dictionaries – get a good one! Teachers are constantly surprised that students do not make this small investment in their learning. Students (or more accurately their parents) pay thousands of pounds for a course at an overseas university but then are not prepared to pay £18 (about $30) more to … Read more