Plagiarism in Higher Education: What Do Students Need to Be Aware of?

Plagiarism, simply put, is using the work of another and trying to pass it off as your own work by not giving due credit to the original author in written […]
Teaching the Challenging but Essential Academic Writing Skill of Paraphrasing

By Siqi Song, M.S TESOL Learning to write academically in English is a huge challenge for second language students. While they must deal with complex syntactical structures and academic vocabulary […]
Tools and Tips to Help Your Students Write an A+ Essay/Research Paper

Tory S. Thorkelson, M.Ed. More and more students are being asked to write undergraduate papers and yet, even where writing classes are offered, there is never enough time to cover […]
Online News Stories: A place for Autonomy and Language Development

by Mohamed Elhess In a typical language classroom, some students prefer to work individually, some rely upon kinesthetic or visual learning style, some show eagerness in thinking critically, etc. Accordingly, […]
IELTS speaking – What is Cambridge Looking for? Part 2 – Lexical Resource

IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 2 – Lexical Resource. Hi everyone, welcome to the third installment of our analysis of IELTS speaking grading criteria. In my […]