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Listening Circles
Listening Circles What are listening circles? Listening Circles can be very successful in encouraging students to engage more deeply with texts by approaching them from different perspectives and discovering their different elements before rebuilding them with a...
Cohesion
Cohesion What is cohesion? Cohesion refers to the way texts use grammar and vocabulary to ‘stick’ or ‘glue’ ideas together. This is done through articles (a/an/the), pronouns(it/this/these/that/those/etc..), word families (analyse/ analysis) / summary nouns...
Parallelism
Parallelism What is parallelism? Parallelism is a similarity of grammatical form for similar elements of meaning within a sentence or among sentences. When pairing ideas, underscore their connection by expressing them in similar grammatical form. Paired ideas are...
Evaluating Sources
Evaluating Academic Sources What is evaluating sources? Much of university life is based on good research skills. Of course, like all good skills it needs practice and strategies to be effective and efficient. At first, many students find it difficult to identify...
Mergers & Acquisitions: Reading and Argument Essay Writing
Reading & Argument Essay Writing Reading & Writing Practice This blog provides a great lesson to improve students' ability to read, identify key arguments of for/against and synthesise the arguments in an argument essay. Students practise their paraphrasing...
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SPSE Lessons
SPSE Essays - Situation / Problem / Solution / EvaluationSPSE (situation, problem, solution, evaluation) essays are a common writing structure used at university. The aim of the S-P-S-E essay is to examine a problem and discuss two (or more) possible solutions. You...
The Gig Economy
The Gig Economy - EAP Lessons What is the gig economy? The gig economy can be defined as independent work that encapsulates autonomous, collaborative short-term working relationships (gigs). This encompasses the labour services of trading in goods and renting assets....
Teaching EAP at university
Teaching EAP [English for Academic Purposes] at University What is an EAP teacher? EAP (English for Academic Purposes), or as known by many tutors and students ‘Academic English,’ is teaching English for the Academic IELTS module and/or teaching in an English...
Independent Learning
Independent Learning at University What is independent learning? Independent learning is at the heart of the university experience. It is learning that is done outside of your normal classes of lectures, seminars and tutorials. It is research to expand your knowledge...
