ACE for Communication Success: Academic Discussions

ACE for Communication Success is free to all Adelaide University students by coursework seeking to practise communicating in English in different academic settings. 

The course is offered on campus, in person, and sessions run for 50 minutes.

This workshop focuses on the skills and language for participating in, managing, and leading academic discussions. 

It includes:

• identifying barriers to participating in discussions during tutorials and ways to overcome them

• discovering new ways to introduce topics for discussion

• applying strategies for changing the topic during discussions

• learning the difference between interrupting and interjecting

• learning common phrases for participating in discussions

• applying the skills and language learnt in practice discussions 

*All ACE workshops include interactive tasks to practise the focus skills