Make the most of learning a new language with this comprehensive guide written by experienced language teachers. It offers crucial and practical advice, and features a number of exercises to help you assess the way you learn, improvements that can be made, and how to use resources effectively.

Many students find the quantum intellectual leap between school and university maths to be too great, and some drop out as a result. This book has been written to counter this, by helping students cross the divide.

1. What makes for good study? 2. Making the best use of Distance Learning 3. Short-cuts: a summary of effective study skills 4. Higher order questions and propositions 5. Reading academic texts and doing electronic searches 6. Writing academic essays 7. Making use of seminars 8. Researching for a dissertation 9.