Most education systems, despite their growth in numbers of multilingual students, still cling to monolingualism as an idealized pathway to language and literacy learning. As an extension, ...

1 Applied Psychology Program, Department of Life Sciences, BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China 2 Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ...

In the academic world, language barriers are a significant challenge between fellow multinational academics. In the early to mid 20th century, French and German were the preferred academic languages.

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 ...

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, ...

The concept of academic language is most widely attributed to Jim Cummins, who introduced the distinction between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language ...

Foreign language anxiety significantly affects academic performance, particularly in Chinese language learning. This study aims to meta-analyze the relationship between foreign language anxiety and ...

The first time I heard ontological in class, I ignored it. Epistemological soon followed, which—after a smattering of repetitions—merited a Google search. A semester or two later I tossed the ...

Our workshops can help you communicate your research more effectively. They are suitable for both UK and international postgraduate researchers at the University of Bristol. As a postgraduate ...