The Study Skills course is over and I’m back to Plymouth. It was a great experience, especially because my students were all fantastic people, we had a great time together and I hope I have helped them in the process of adapting to academic life in the UK , at least a little bit.
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Well-done everyone!
Posted in Academic English, tagged EAP; Study Skills Course on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Reading drafts
Posted in Academic English, tagged EAP; Study Skills Course on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now I know what my tutors has been through…when we are students we think that the most difficult thing in the world is to write an essay and we tend to think that the tutor’s job is just a piece of cake compared to it. It isn’t.
I got the first draft of my students’s essays [...]
Summer in the Midlands
Posted in Academic English, tagged EAP, Study Skills on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Writing this from the library at the University of Leicester where I’m now teaching the listening/speaking module to a group of students starting their university programmes this term. The Study Skills course is designed to help international students to get acquainted with academic work in the UK, thus in the following fours weeks I’ll be [...]


