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English Language Support

Follow the links to find:

For more information, please contact:

Helen Hesselberg
Equity Retention Officer
Phone: +61 8 9266 1233
Fax: +61 8 9266 3847
Email: H.Hesselberg@curtin.edu.au
Building 599, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA, 6845

 

Services

Aimed to support:

Support Offered at Curtin:

  1. Curtin UniEnglish - a website designed to help you develop your ability to use English with confidence and fluency
  2. The Learning Centre
  3. "Speak Up" - English Conversation classes - Develop communication skills and confidence as a second language English speaker
  4. Curtin Business School - Communication Skills Centre (Only available CBS students)
    • English Conversation Class: Mondays - 11.00am - 1 hour
      A weekly conversation class for students wishing to improve spoken English.
      Academic Writing and English Grammar class.
      Once a week for 1 hour - Mondays 5.00pm or Tuesdays at 2.00pm
  5. Speakers Corner
    • Enable students studying the English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students (ELICOS) to practise speaking English. Any students wishing to have a conversation can participate. Contact DOLIE.
  6. CISWA - Council for International Students of Western Australia
  7. English Language Support Unit - Undergraduate Students
    • Intercultural Communication 141 and 142
      Offered by the Department of Languages and Intercultural Education (DOLIE)
      These are credit bearing units - 25 credit points each.
      Can be used as elective units for undergraduate degree courses.
      Receive individual consultation with feedback on how to improve your work by writing longer, better organised and more accurate texts, taking notes, giving presentations, getting involved in tutorial discussions and by improving English language skills generally.

      Unit will be run subject to demand

      Contact: I.Zagoria@curtin.edu.au
      Building 208:311c
      Phone: 9266 4251

  8. English Language Support Unit - Postgraduate Students
    • Cultural Literacy 500 and Cultural Literacy 501
      Offered by the Department of Media and Information -Faculty of Media, Society and Culture

      Each unit is worth 25 credit points. Two hours per week.

      • Develop Research skills
      • Oral Presentation skills
      • Critical Reading skills
      • Academic Writing – Research and Reports and theses
      • Language and Interpersonal skills.

      Contact: Joyce.Bell@curtin.edu.au
      Building 209:429
      Phone: 9266 4470

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