Middle and high school students who read fluently in English class and on the Web may find that they cannot understand their science texts. And their science teachers may be ill-prepared to guide them ...

Academic texts are often not easy to understand. They can be incredibly dense and full of complicated language that reads as if it’s been put through a thesaurus numerous times. And to a certain ...

Academic writing skills are fundamental to most university courses. Andrew Struan explains how Glasgow has taken a whole-university approach to ensure all students are well equipped to succeed ...

No one is a native speaker of academic English. As the formal written and spoken language of classrooms and professional workplaces, academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, ...

This course provides students with foundational academic language skills which are needed for undergraduate contexts. Activities are designed to support and extend students of differing English ...

Our bespoke, discipline-specific sessions develop undergraduate and postgraduate students' academic language and literacy. Every discipline has its own academic culture, which will include styles of ...

Students and faculty who use English as a second language have advantages and challenges in higher education. This collection of resources looks at how to support international students and ...

If you’ve ever made friends with an unwieldy textbook or spent the night trawling through online libraries for journal papers to support a soon-to-be due essay, you’ve probably lamented the boring and ...