Unit 2: Skills for academic speaking

Overview

Whether you are studying at undergraduate or postgraduate level, you will often find yourself in situations where you are required to take part in formal discussions about the subject you are studying. However, you may not be accustomed to the style of tutorials and seminars in UK universities.

This Unit aims to help you become more aware of what to expect in academic speaking situations, and of what other people will expect from you.

Contents

Part 1: Perspectives on academic speaking

• Reflecting on academic speaking
• Types of academic speaking
• Coping with academic speaking
• Further study

Part 2: Seminar skills

• Participation

About these materials

Above is a menu of learning objects [?]. You can study the learning objects in any order, although we recommend that you study them in the order in which they are presented.

Most of the content is presented through audio recordings. So as well as finding out about a particular academic skills topic, you will also get a lot of practice in listening to people speaking in an academic context.