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  • Improve your academic English
    • Strategies for listening and reading
      • Listening to academic English
        • Active listening
        • Listening to lectures
        • Listening in interpersonal interactions
        • Listening in online environments
        • Active listening tips for different accents of English
      • Reading academic English
      • Read more effectively
        • Four strategies for effective reading
        • Skills and strategies for understanding your reading
        • Active strategies to understand your reading
      • Read critically
      • Read difficult material
    • Strategies for writing academic English
      • Understand the writing process
      • Organise your ideas
      • Write clear sentences
        • Common sentence structures
        • Common sentence structure mistakes
        • Creating variety in writing
      • Express uncertainty in writing
        • How to use cautious language
        • How to express levels of certainty
        • How to use hedging to make nuanced claims
        • How to avoid over-generalisations
    • The language of …
      • Describing things, actions and events
        • Descriptive writing language features
        • Examples of descriptive writing
      • Adopting a critical position
        • Signposting
        • Evaluative language
        • Conditionals and comparatives
      • Writing about theory
      • The language of writing about data
        • Language use for presenting data
        • Language use for interpreting data
        • Language use for analysing data
    • Academic language phrasebank

Strategies for listening and reading

Browse the resources below, or return back to the main Learn HQ hub Improve your academic English section for more resources on this topic.

  • Listening to academic English

    Develop your listening skills and strategies to identify the key messages in online and face-to-face interactions.

  • Reading academic English

    Rate your level of academic reading fitness, learn new strategies for effective reading and for handling major challenges when reading academic English.

  • Read more effectively

    This resource outlines skills and introduces strategies for effective reading and comprehension.

  • Read critically

    This resource explains what critical reading is and provides tips and analytical questions to guide critical reading.

  • Read difficult material

    Understanding complex and challenging academic texts can be addressed by becoming an  active reader. Some of the skills required include making a reading plan and setting a purpose, skim reading and noting key vocabulary, facts and ideas.

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