International students hoping to study at a UK university must complete a pre-sessional EAP course if they do not meet the English language entrance requirement of their chosen degree programme. In this article, I shall discuss pre-sessional courses in the context of English Language Teaching. I shall also evaluate pre-sessional courses on the basis of […]
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Thanks to globalization, our world is now more interconnected and homogenous than ever before. We study, travel and trade with relative ease across national borders. In addition, many of us share currencies, languages and cultural practices. All sectors of the economy have had to adapt to this radical and irreversible shift – and Higher Education
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International students pay at least twice as much in tuition fees as home students do – and universities have come to rely on these fees for their very survival. As international students have so much to offer UK universities, it is vital that we understand the challenges they face while studying in this country. By
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There are different types of essay. At School, you may have to write discursive essays – which involve giving your opinion on a particular topic. At University, however, you must write academic essays – which involve constructing arguments using academic research (from e.g. books and journal articles). Many University students have good subject knowledge, but
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Classroom management replaces the outdated term behaviour management. The focus is no longer on students’ negative behaviour. Instead, we consider how the environment of our classroom can be made conducive to learning. After all, students who are busy learning have much less time with which to misbehave. In this context, the term environment broadly refers
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Are you considering embarking on a teaching career? Would you like a better understanding of the teaching profession? There’s a feeling that teaching is rather like a bubble. In other words, you can only really understand what it’s like from the inside. Teacher training courses do not fully prepare new teachers for how to forge
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In this article, I will tell you how to become an EFL (= English as a Foreign Language) teacher in China without any prior experience. Many young graduates work as EFL teachers on a short-term basis in order to fund a gap-year. However, others choose to forge a life-long career in TEFL. Within this group,
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