Focus on Strategies: Reading and Understanding Academic Articles
We will focus on reading challenges, strategies, and ways to deal with new vocabulary as well as the difference between reading for detail and reading for a general understanding.
As a student, reading subject-specific texts is likely one of your central tasks and one that takes quite a bit of time—especially when they aren’t in your native language. In this workshop, we will discuss the challenges you face and focus on reading strategies that you can use when you are reading texts in English. This will include a focus on AI tools that you can use to help you read and understand texts. We will also look at ways to deal with new vocabulary as well as the difference between reading for detail and reading for a general understanding. The workshop will include some practice reading tasks.