Course: English for Academic Study

What words did Professor Gardner define? You should have heard: linguist genre disciplines literature source scholarship How did you know these words were being defined? Lecturers will often introduce new …

In some universities in the UK, tutorials are the main method of teaching. In others, they are quite rare. But what should you expect? Omar’s experience Another word I wasn’t …

You’ve explored the key features of university education in the UK. Now let’s try to write about what we have learned. One of the ways to improve our writing is …

Seminars are another common UK teaching method. Omar’s experience Seminars turned out to be meeting as a smaller group after the lecture to explore the ideas further and for us …

Omar talked about his experience of the key methods of teaching at Coventry University, but is this the same everywhere? What do these words really mean? Let’s look at them …

You have now collected a number of definitions for key words and phrases used at university in the UK. How should you keep a record of these? A good way …

Look at the four words below: what do you think they mean? lecture seminar tutorial independent learning Now look at the pictures below and try to match each picture to …

Now we know where to find information about how to say a new word correctly, but how can we practise saying the word on our own and make sure we …

Another important part of how a word is said is its stress. Stress means the part of the word that we emphasise when we say it. This means it is …

Now let’s look at a more difficult word. Look at the difference between the way the word ‘independent’ is spelt and how it is said. If the word ‘independent’ was …

We can use something called the phonemic chart to help us understand the difference between how a word is spelt and how it should be said. The phonemic chart (Click …

We have thought about the meaning of words and meaning in context; now we need to think about how we pronounce them. Look at the dictionary entry below. Which parts …

Congratulations, you’ve completed Week 1 of English for Academic Study. So far we’ve looked at some key ideas about how to be a successful student in the UK and noticed …

Now we’ve looked at how you can use a dictionary and choose the correct definition, you have the opportunity to practise doing this for yourself. Think back to the video …

This step looks at other meanings for ‘independent’ and how to use substitution to check the meaning of words we don’t know. In the previous step we looked at one …