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The Academic English Programme offers workshops, lectures and modules (sometimes referred to as 'preparatory learning' as they do not have assessment or credits) for your discipline, focusing on the language and communication skills needed to perform effectively on specific degree programmes at Reading.

Our discipline-specific language and literacy experts closely analyse the texts, assignment types and communicative situations you will encounter on your degree. We then design lessons to develop the specialised language, text organisational (or 'genre') knowledge, reading-to-write skills, and communication strategies you will need to engage successfully with them.

We currently provide input for more than thirty different student groups, from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate research level, across the campus.

If you are a student at Reading, talk to your Department about what is potentially available to you from the discipline-specific Academic English Programme.

If you are a staff member and would like a new workshop or course for your students, please see our Academic Language and Literacy Liaison page for details on who to contact. 

Read a summary of our activity:

Henley Business School

 

Undergraduate:

  • IL1AACN Academic Skills and Language for Accounting (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • IL1ABMN Academic Skills and Language for Business and Management (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • IL1AFNN Academic Skills and Language for Finance (Semesters 1 and 2)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAACN Academic Writing for Business Management and Accounting (Semester 1)
  • ILMABMN Academic Writing for Business Management (Semester 1)
  • ILMACFN Academic Writing for Accounting and Finance (Semester 1)
  • ILMADBN Academic Writing for Digital Business (Semester 1)
  • ILMAFEN Academic English for Finance (Semester 1)
  • Academic English writing workshops for MSc Accounting and Finance (Semester 2)
  • Oral communication skills workshops for MSc Entrepreneurship (Semester 2)

 

Agriculture, Policy & Development

Undergraduate:

  • IL1APDN Academic Skills and Language for Agriculture, Policy and Development (Semester 1)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAPDN Academic Skills and Language for GIIDAE (Graduate Institute of International Development) (Semesters 1 and 2)

Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science

Undergraduate:

  • Academic Grammar for Writing workshops for NUIST 3+1 Environmental Engineering students delivered within GV3RSP Research Skills and Project Management.

Postgraduate:

  • Academic writing workshops for master's Environmental Science students delivered within GVMSILR Skills for Independent Learning and Research.

 

Arts & Communication Design

 Undergraduate:

  • IL1ACDN English for Arts and Communication Design (Semesters 1 and 2)


Biological Sciences

 Postgraduate:

  • Workshops on Writing a Literature Review delivered by the Academic English team within an eleven-week writing course to support new PhD students (Semesters 1 and 2)

Built Environment

Postgraduate:

  • ILMACMN Academic Writing for Construction Management and Engineering (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • Essay Writing workshop for master's students (Semester 1)
  • Research Writing workshop for master's students (Semester 1)

Chemistry, Food & Pharmacy

Undergraduate:

  • IL1AFSN Academic Skills and Language for Food Science (Semester 1)
  • IL1APHN English for Pharmacy (Semester 2)
  • FB2CAL English for Science (Semesters 1 and 2; Credit-Bearing; for 2+2 transnational Food Science students)
  • IL3ACHN Academic Skills and Language for Chemists (Semester 1; for NUIST 3+1 students)
  • Dissertation and Exam Writing workshops for NUIST 3+1 Chemistry students (Semester 2)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAFSN Academic Skills and Language for Food Science (Semester 1)

Institute of Education

Undergraduate:

  • IL1AEDN Academic Skills and Language for Education (Semesters 1 and 2; for BA Education Studies)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAESN Academic Writing for Education (Semesters 1 and 2; for MA Education)

Humanities

Postgraduate:

  • ILMATLN Academic Writing for Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Semester 1)
  • ILMATDN Dissertation Writing for Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Semester 2)
  • ILMATPN Academic Writing for TESOL Portfolio (Semester 2)

Law

Undergraduate:

  • IL1ALWN Academic Skills and Language for Law (Part 1) (Semester 1)
  • IL2ALWN Academic Skills and Language for Law (Part 2) (Semester 1)
  • IL3ALWN Academic Skills and Language for Law (Part 3) (Semester 1)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAWLN Academic Writing for LL.M (Semester 1 for September start students; Semester 2 for February start students)

Mathematical, Physical & Computational Sciences

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAMTN Academic English for Meteorologists (Semester 1)

Philosophy, Politics & Economics

 

Undergraduate:

  • IL1AECN Academic Skills and Language for Politics, Economics & International Relations (Semester 1; for Economics students)
  • IL1APRN Academic Skills and Language for Politics, Economics & International Relations (Semester 1; for Politics and International Relations students)
  • IL1APPN Academic Skills and Language for Philosophy, Politics & Economics (Semester 1; for Philosophy students)
  • IL3AECN Academic Writing for Economics (Semester 1; for NUIST 3+1 Economics students)
  • IL3APRN Advanced Oracy Skills for Politics & International Relations (Semester 2; for students studying a double degree at Reading and an overseas institution)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAPRN Academic Skills for Language for Politics, Economics & International Relations (Semester 1)
  • ILMAECN Academic Writing for Economics - Postgraduate (Semester 1; for MSc Data and Decision Analysis students, NUIST/Reading Year 1)
  • ILMAEDN Dissertation Writing for Economics - Postgraduate (Semester 1; for MSc Data and Decision Analysis students, NUIST, Year 2)

Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Undergraduate:

  • IL1APYN Writing for Undergraduate Psychology

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAPYN Academic Writing for Psychology

Doctoral and Researcher College

As part of the Doctoral and Researcher College's Reading Researcher Development Programme (RRDP), AEP offers five 'The Language of Research' talks, and a 1-day Thesis Writing workshop. Three thesis-writing courses are also available to international doctoral students. For more details, please visit the Doctoral and Researcher College website.

Academic Language Webinars

One-hour webinars designed to help you with the language needed in a range of academic communication contexts. Attendance can count towards the Training and Development component of your RED Award.

Consultations for writing and presentations

 Meet with our experienced academic language tutors, on a one-to-one basis, for individual advice and feedback on your academic writing or speaking,

Spoken language courses

Live spoken language courses to help you develop your confidence, fluency and accuracy when speaking.