One of the joys of academic life is inviting speakers to your campus — and getting invited to other campuses to share your own work. Much of the joy is intellectual and collegial but, if you’re lucky, ...

A typical AE schedule starts at 8:00 am and includes 20 credit-based hours of instruction – 18 hours of core English classes and 2 hours of “Pathways to Success at UAB,” a support course for all AE ...

Integrated Skills courses are designed to help lower-level students with all of the language and skills needed to learn and use English, with a special focus on oral communication. Students will ...

Many university students studying English as a foreign language (EFL) face challenges with comprehension and communication. This could be because their secondary education was conducted in their ...

Academics ought to be great at public speaking, or at the very least pretty comfortable with it, but it doesn’t often seem that way. While I’m sure everyone who reads this can think of some presenters ...

I was just about to give my first conference presentation as an early career researcher. As the audience got seated, I could feel my nerves acting up. I had prepared my talk weeks in advance and ...