Improve your academic English

Improve your academic English

Everyone can improve their academic English. Learn new strategies for listening, reading and communicating with impact.

Strategies for listening and reading

Listening to academic English

This resource helps you develop your listening skills and develop strategies to identify the key messages in online and face-to-face interactions.

Reading academic English

This resource helps you with managing your reading at university and becoming a faster, more efficient reader of academic English, whatever your background.

Read more effectively

This resource will provide you with essential pre-reading tips, four strategies for effective reading and develop your skills and strategies for understanding your reading.

Read critically

Learn how to analyse and evaluate the text to make an informed judgment about how it fits in its context, to identify the contribution it makes, and to describe its strengths and limitations.

Read difficult material

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

Strategies for writing academic English

Understand the writing process

Master academic language

Find, express and maintain your writing voice

Organise your ideas

Write clear sentences

Express uncertainty in writing

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Explore additional writing resources

Develop your writing skills for any assessment or task, learn new writing strategies and master academic writing.

Review and proofread for academic English

Academic language phrasebank

This resource provides you with common phrases used in academic writing that can enhance the clarity and coherence of your work.

The Academic Language Feedback (ALF) guide

The ALF guide will help you ensure your assignment follows academic language requirements. Use it to proofread and review your work for academic English (grammar, sentence structure, punctuation) as well as for referencing, style, voice and organisation of ideas.

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