There are 400,000 international students in more than 65,438+030 universities in Britain, of which 65,438+05% are undergraduates, or about 60,000 students. 20% of them are undergraduate students from China, that is,1.2000. If the per capita investment is 65.438+0 million, the education investment of these students is 65.438+0.2 billion. On the one hand, this figure proves the attraction of undergraduate education in Britain, on the other hand, it also proves the importance that China families attach to university education.

However, if we pay a high tuition fee and find that we can't adapt to the undergraduate education in Britain and give up halfway, it would be a great pity. In fact, a common misunderstanding is that as long as you can pass IELTS, you can adapt to the whole English teaching in foreign universities. Is that really the case?

Let's make a detailed analysis of British university education and see what academic English abilities we need.

1, understand the language of teacher evaluation-in addition to the IELTS test when we entered the school, we also need to know how British professors grade papers when studying in the UK and the rules when grading them. For example, professors often use WC when correcting homework, which means wrong choice of words, which means improper use of words.

2. Being able to work as a team In Ying Ying University, students often need to work together to complete a project, and everyone is responsible for part of it. In this process, students need to be able to understand other people's views, but also be able to express their own views and convince others to accept them.

3. Be able to learn in English in the classroom-in the classroom of British universities, students should understand what the professor said and take notes, and also know to put forward their own opinions on what the professor said.

4. Be able to use professional English-in the professional courses related to yourself, you need to know the expression methods of discipline-related concepts, and how to explain, quote, synthesize, evaluate and even criticize these concepts.

Being able to communicate across cultures-since teachers and classmates come from all over the world, their English expression habits are different, so we should be able to communicate with them.

6. Being able to use English in different learning situations-British universities have different learning forms, such as lectures and round-table discussions. You should know the rules of these different occasions and know how to use the appropriate language to communicate, otherwise it is easy to offend others.

IELTS and other exams can help students get tickets to enter British universities, but they can't guarantee students to finish their studies smoothly in this process. Academic English education in the International Education Center of Foreign Languages College of Hunan Normal University is a pure academic English education that enables students to adapt to overseas study and life in advance, which is different from IELTS training.