Reading Academic Texts: Addressing Challenges Second Language Readers Face
Reading Academic Texts: Addressing Challenges Second Language Readers Face
Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service
Date: Wednesday 05 February 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Category: Academic events
Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid
Website: www.glasgow.ac.uk/leads/events
This session will consider approaches to helping students using English as a second language deal with reading complex academic texts. We will outline the challenges academic reading pose, strategies that can facilitate more effective reading, and provide practical examples of approaches we have embedded on PGT courses in English for Academic Study.
This session is open to staff of the University of Glasgow. For the avoidance of doubt as to eligibility, it would be helpful if you could please register using your staff email address.
Tea and coffee will be available.