Resources
Handouts
- An Introduction to English Academic Writing: the Hamburger Model
- An Introduction to English Academic Writing: How to Avoid Plagiarism
- An Introduction to English Academic Writing: What are Reporting Verbs?
- An Introduction to Academic English Writing: Empirical study
- An Introduction to Academic English Speaking: Using PowerPoint
Writing
- Academic Writing Education Center at National Taiwan University
Created by National Taiwan University, offering self-assessments of academic vocabulary and grammar, examples of academic writing, and tips for academic writing, and so on. - Center for Independent Language Learning, PolyU
Created by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, offering materials for independent learning on different styles and genres, such essays and reports. - Bilingual Vocabulary, Academic Term and Dictionary
Created by the National Academy for Educational Research, compiling over 1.2 million academic terms in more than 70 disciplines and collecting 60,000 entries from nine dictionary and 100,000 words with bilingual definitions. - Purdue Online Writing Lab
Created by Purdue University, offering writing resources, materials, and online exercises. - The Writing Center • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Created by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offering tips and tools for academic English writing. - Academic Phrasebank
Created by the University of Manchester, offering resources for academic writers online and in the PDF form. - Center for Academic Development at Oxford Brooks University
Created by Oxford Brooks University, offering resources, ranging from academic writing and presentation to academic ethics. - Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh
Created by the University of Edinburgh, offering resources, including academic writing and presentation and skill sets, such as note-taking and time management. - Read and Write with Cambridge
Created by Cambridge Assessment English, offering online reading and writing practice. - SkillsGuides
Created by the University of Hull, offering resources about learning, academic writing, research, and so on. - RMIT University Learning Lab
Created by RMIT university, offering resources concerning academic writing, for example, writing styles and how to cite articles. - The University of Melbourne
Created by the University of Melbourne, offering resources about writing, speaking, and presenting. - Using English for Academic Purposes For Students in Higher Education
Created Andy Gillett, offering academic English resources to students at higher education institutes for the four skills, listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Speaking
- NDC Bilingual Learning Resource Website
Created by the National Development Council, offering videos, articles, radio programs, and other resources for English learning. - Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement at Florida State University
Created by Florida State University, offering a collection of resources about oral communication from other universities and scholars. - Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
Created by the University of Michigan, offering a language resource consisting of a large and structured set of Academic spoken English. - Center for Academic Development at Oxford Brooks University
Created by Oxford Brooks University, offering resources, such as oral presentation, poster presentation, online communication, and so on. - Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh
Created by the University of Edinburgh, offering resources for academic presentations and materials for planning and designing a presentation. - SkillsGuides
Created by the University of Hull, offering resources about academic presentations for presentation planning, designing, and oral communication. - RMIT University Learning Lab
Created by RMIT university, offering tutorial videos and PDF files about academic oral presentation. - The University of Melbourne
Created by the University of Melbourne, offering resources for speaking and presentations, for example, presenting effectively and managing stress for oral presentations and effective presentations – preparation, organisation, language and questions. - Using English for Academic Purposes For Students in Higher Education
Created Andy Gillett, offering academic English resources to students at higher education institutes for the four skills, listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Library Resources
Language learning databases provided by NTNU library
- Click on the link for instructions on how to access the databases.
【Online Workshops】NTNU Spring 2022 Academic Writing Workshops
Online Courses
- Open Yale Courses
Open Yale Courses offers free online introductory courses created by different colleges at Yale. - MIT Open Courseware
MIT Open Courseware started in 2002 and has collected over 2,000 courses in different areas, such business, engineering, arts, and music. - Academic Earth
Academic Earth collected video lessons from top-notch universities around the globe, including UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and so on. - Khan Academy
Khan Academy now features thousands of video lessons, covering all areas. It allows users to translate the content into different languages in order to offer the undiscriminating learning experience. - Crash Course YouTube Channel
Crash Course is an educational YouTube Channel established by the Green brothers. The channel has more than ten million subscribers and has received over a billion views.
Activities
- Activities held by the Foreign Language Education Division of the Common Core Education Committee, NTNU
The division organizes activities on an irregular basis, such as presentation competition, workshop for test preparation, English writing workshop, and so on. - English Reading Groups sponsored by the NTNU library
The library hires excellent students to be the facilitators to form English reading groups with other students.
Tests
- TOEFL, Test of English as a Foreign Language
The TOEFL test is administered by Educational Testing Service or ETS. It is a standardized test to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers wishing to enroll in English-speaking universities. - IELTS, International English Language Testing System
The IELTS is an international standardized test of English language proficiency with academic and general training versions for non-native English language speakers, jointly established by the British Council, IDP Education Australia Ltd, and Cambridge English Language Assessment.