Online resources

Assess your language skills

On the AES moodle page you can find self-assessment tests to assess and improve your language skills. These include:

• language accuracy
• writing
• pronunciation
• speaking.

Practise English language and communication skills

The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) toolkit contains more than 100 lessons which you can access by self-enrolling yourself on the course’s homepage. The toolkit covers:

• managing your studies at St Andrews
• reading and note-making for academic purposes
• listening and note-taking for academic purposes
• speaking and pronunciation for academic purposes
• writing for academic purposes
• grammar for academic purposes
• vocabulary for academic purposes.

Popular EAP toolkit lessons

Managing your studies at St Andrews

• Managing your own approach to study
• The best conditions for learning

Grammar for academic purposes

• When to use an article
• Assessing yourself on articles 

Writing for academic purposes

• Structuring your writing
• Typical language that academic writers use

Listening for academic purposes

• Prediction skills
• Using clues to understand lectures

Vocabulary for academic purposes

• Introduction to vocabulary learning
• Building your vocabulary

Speaking and pronunciation for academic purposes

• Contrasting spoken and written language
• Communicating in seminars

Reading and note-making for academic purposes

• Prediction strategies
• Good practice in note-taking to avoid plagiarism

Take online courses in language skills

The English for Academic Studies (EAS) programme covers the following skills:

• preparing for study in English 
• writing 
• listening 
• speaking 
• reading.

Practise listening to accents

This self-study course provides opportunities to adjust your ear to a range of accents, including Scottish. Email academicenglish@st-andrews.ac.uk if you would like to use this course.