Academic English Skills

Speaking skills:

English Conversation: Visual arts and creativity

Build your confidence in speaking English in an informal environment talking about art and creativity.  Class sizes will be small to make sure everybody has a chance to speak.

Language: Confidence and Communication

Build your confidence in communicating in general English, with a clear focus on speaking, listening and language (grammar and vocabulary). This will support your communication in all contexts: study, social, work.

Language for Presentations

Improve your structure, language and phrasing for academic presentations. Learn how to use narrative to make presentations more engaging and how to deliver group presentations more effectively.

Speaking: Fluency and Functional Language

Develop your confidence and learn key language for communicating with students and staff in seminars, group work and tutorials. Improve your speaking skills by focusing on fluency and functional language eg agreeing/disagreeing, speculating, clarifying, introducing ideas.

Writing skills:

Dissertation Proposals: Language and Structure

Learn the common contents of a proposal and how to formulate a title, structure your research, annotate your bibliography, write a literature review and provide a rationale for your project.

Harvard Referencing

Learn and practise how to correctly reference, cite and caption a wide range of sources: books, journals, web pages, images, artworks and AI tools. Learn how to quote, paraphrase and summarize texts correctly and effectively.

Language for Advanced Academic Writing

Study and practice aspects of proficient academic writing: expand your range of vocabulary, develop greater cohesion, increase specificity and build your confidence and sophistication as a writer.

Language for Reflective Writing

Learn the features of reflective writing, using examples and practical tasks to guide your approach, to decide your structure and to help you select appropriate language for reflective writing.