English for Interacting on Campus

This volume covers the day-to-day activities of a non-native English speaking student carrying out research, attending lectures, socializing, and living in a foreign country. Whether on a US campus as a foreign student, or in a non-English speaking country where classes are given in English, this book will help students build confidence in interacting with professors and fellow students.

List of contents

1. Living in Another Country and Dealing with Cultural Differences.- 2. Relationships with Fellow Students.- 3. Communicating face-to-face with professors.- 4. Communicating with professors via email.- 5. Participating in Lectures, Tutorials, Meetings, Workshops, and Seminars.- 6. Listening and Questioning during Lectures.- 7. Successful Conversations and Discussions.- 8. Telephoning.- 9. What to say when you don't understand what someone has said.- 10. Improving Your Pronunciation.- 11. Improve your English with Audiovisual Resources.- 12. Automatic Translation: Pros and Cons.- 13. Smileys, Acronyms, Txt Messg.- 14. Useful Phrases.- 15. Mini Grammar.

About the author

Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 30 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to write research papers, prepare presentations, and communicate with editors, referees and fellow researchers.

Summary

This volume covers the day-to-day activities of a non-native English speaking student carrying out research, attending lectures, socializing, and living in a foreign country.  Whether on a US campus as a foreign student, or in a non-English speaking country where classes are given in English, this book will help students build confidence in interacting with professors and fellow students.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Wallwork
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319287324
• ISBN: 978-3-31-928732-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 16 mm x 239 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 240 p.
• Series: English for Academic Research; English for Academic Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; B, Linguistics, English, popular science, Grammar, English Language, Social Sciences, Language Education, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language and education, Language teaching & learning, Popular Science in Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar