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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Academic writing will probably be very different to writing that you have produced before. There are very specific conventions, characteristics and rules that need to be adhered to. They convey ...

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 ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

English Conversation Hour is an opportunity for all students, faculty and staff of the CWRU community interested in strengthening their proficiency in conversational English as well as those already ...