Academic English skills for international students
Patrick Taking notes Taking notes from lectures and from your reading is a very important academic skill that you will need to practise if you are going to get good at it. On Academic English courses your teachers will give you a lot of practice in this skill in the classroom by making you listen to … Read more
As you all know, I spend a lot of time hunting for good resources for Academic English students on the internet (yes, I need to get out more, but the weather has been awful!) and I’ve been taking another look at the material offered by Warwick University in the UK. I don’t know much about … Read more
I’m always looking around the Internet for advice, tips and tools about things like referencing. As I was saying to my students: referencing is a bit like going to the dentist. It’s horrible. It’s boring. It’s almost physically painful. But in the end you know it does you good! I have rewritten my page on … Read more
In my last post I talked about understanding the importance of the process of groupwork, not just the product that comes out of the end of it (here). In fact, there is a product at the end of groupwork, but it isn’t the product that most students think it is. Most students think the important … Read more