Academic English skills for international students
Patrick I hope you’ve all been enjoying the good weather. The long evenings in the UK are just wonderful, even longer if you’re further north! Academic listening skills should be one of the easier skills for students to improve because of the number of resources that are available. So, yes, here’s another good site for you … Read more
The reason why this topic keeps cropping up in my posts is because students keep plagiarising! In my view this is one of the hardest things for students from other cultures to understand and to avoid doing. I think, unfortunately, that many overseas students do not get enough help and this is one reason why … Read more
One of the biggest problems that overseas students face at university is in lectures. Why do the lecturers speak so quickly?! Why do they jump about all over the place, why don’t they carefully follow the points on the slide? Well, lecturers are humans (I think!) and they get distracted, they suddenly think about things … Read more
I said a few things in my last post about essay marking criteria. Each institution uses different marking criteria, but generally speaking it is quite unusual to get much more than 70% for a piece of work at a British university. This often worries students as they may be used to getting much higher marks. … Read more