Academic English skills for international students
Patrick The debate goes on regarding overseas students and plagiarism. Some people blame cultural differences, others say it is a deliberate strategy that students with weak language skills employ to survive in the university environment. Students should know what teachers are saying about them! Read Foreign student rule-breaking: culture clash or survival skills? in Times Higher … Read more
I’ve been reading and listening to student work over the past couple of days and if I was asked to give one piece of advice to students it would be: follow the instructions and answer the question! If you are asked to: Choose an article about finance to present to the class and you present … Read more
A few years ago a student I knew was accused of an academic offence. She knew what the topic of an exam was going to be and she prepared for the exam by searching on the Internet for an essay on that topic. She found an essay and learnt it off by heart and then … Read more
Students are always asking me how they can improve their reading mark in the IELTS exam. This is a tricky one! The answer is that you need to do a lot of reading in English. But what should you read? I am always on the look out for the kind of articles that appear in … Read more