Improve your academic English
Want to speak and write better English?
Your learning needn’t stop with the course you’re studying. We can help you improve your academic English as well. Not only making it easier to write papers and sit exams, but helping you to adapt to life in the UK. It’s also a help if you want to work in an English-speaking country once you graduate.
Our Academic English courses target the areas of language development you’ll need to shine in your studies. Even better, they run throughout the year. Whether you’re looking to book individual appointments, or attend a small class or workshop, everything is designed to fit around you and your studies.
Find a course to suit you
Whatever your English skills are now, each session will help to improve your language level so you can succeed in your degree programme. Sessions and courses include:
- Confidential 1-1 appointments for 30 minutes, practicing your listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Communication workshops where you’ll have the chance to practice your English speaking.
- Lunchtime English with various topics focused on specific language areas.
- Express English lets you improve a particular aspect of your language skills.
- English in Your Subject supports you when taking specific modules on your programme.
- Synthesise for Success is a short course that improves your reading strategies and use of source material in your writing. You’ll also learn techniques to write with academic integrity.
- Dissertation and thesis writing courses will improve your understanding of academic conventions and writing papers.
- Academic English Skills for PGR Students focuses on understanding, literature of reviews, writing critically and how to proof your own work.
- Exam skills will help you prepare for your exams, exploring the language of questions.
- Critical writing and thinking courses will boost your language skills when writing critically as part of your course.
Where can I find the courses?
You can start improving your English right now, online. You’ll find the full Academic English programme on the universities Canvas teaching and learning platform.