Each week of this course has 15 hours of task-based communicative and collaborative live teaching sessions, during which you'll be monitored by a team of experienced tutors. Before the sessions, there are self-study tasks to help you get the maximum benefit from the live teaching. The focus is on real situations and tasks that you'll be likely to perform in your future studies.

Strategies for understanding lectures and talks, tips on giving presentations, writing essays and reports and advice on how to use the library and the internet for research are among the areas covered in this course.

These courses are delivered jointly by Strathclyde and the British Council. Each week of this course has 15 hours of task-based communicative and collaborative face-to-face teaching delivered by experienced British Council tutors in British Council teaching centres in various overseas locations. Before the sessions, there are around 20 hours of online, self-study tasks provided by Strathclyde to help you get the maximum benefit from the face-to-face teaching. The focus is on real situations and tasks that you'll be likely to perform in your future studies. 

Strategies for understanding lectures and talks, practice in giving presentations, writing essays and reports and advice on how to use the library and the internet for research are among the areas covered in this course.

As well as General English and English for Academic Purposes, we can provide support in one-to-one consultations for students needing advice on their language and academic skills. We'll help you improve your English both for studying and everyday communication, whether you are studying online or on campus.

Support for English for Academic Study (SEAS) is a series of self-study sessions on Myplace for all students to develop their academic English skills for success on their main degree studies.  The sessions are organised into the key academic English skills of Reading for Research and Study Skills, Written Literacy, Listening Strategies, and Oral Communication Strategies. The sessions can be completed as standalone sessions, for students to focus on a particular skill, or undertaken as a whole course.

All the materials you need, including the sessions themselves and the answers, can be downloaded from the Support for English for Academic Study (SEAS) Myplace page.