English language

UWE Bristol offers support to all students to meet their academic language and communication needs. We run workshops to help international students communicate effectively in English.

We provide a series of one-hour workshops for any level of international student, or any student who uses English as a second or additional language.

Workshops include:

• academic writing
• communicating with your lecturers
• taking part in discussions
• pronunciation
• vocabulary.

These workshops are available to book online.

View English language workshops

• Academic Phrasebank (The University of Manchester)
  Useful academic phrases and sentence structures to improve your writing. Includes examples for a variety of general language functions, such as being critical, compare and contrast, and describing trends.
• British National Corpus (Brigham Young University)
  Check your use of English: how does it compare to examples and is it correct?
• The Academic Word List (AWL) (EAP Foundation)
  Useful academic vocabulary that frequently appears in academic texts.
• Formal and Informal English (engVid.com)
  A list of words and phrases to help you recognise the formal (academic) and informal ways of saying the same thing.

Improving your English

• Learning English: activities for learners (Cambridge English)
  Activities to help you to practise your English. Choose the skill you want to practise and the level that is right for you.
• English – practical literacy skills for adults (BBC Skillswise website)
  Includes factsheets, quizzes and practice activities.

• Grammar foundations (LinkedIn Learning)
  Video tutorials to help you apply the basic principles of grammar so you can avoid making the most common mistakes.
• Grammar tutorial (University of Bristol)
  Information and exercises to improve your understanding of grammar and punctuation.
• Grammarly
  A tool that checks your use of grammar, punctuation, contextual spelling and style.
• The Purdue OWL: Grammar (Purdue University)
  Resources to help you use correct grammar in your writing.

Study support specialists in your faculty may also provide one-to-one support.

If you have any queries, please contact the Library.