Enriching students’ language skills and confidence through a university mentoring scheme

ABSTRACT

University can be a challenging learning environment for students entering with a lower level of English. This report focusses on a mentoring scheme which aims to enhance undergraduate students’ English language skills so that they gain the most from their studies. Around 200 students participate in this mentoring scheme each academic year and the programme involves around ten university English teachers who act as mentors. In this report, we describe the programme and reflect on our experience as mentors.

KEYWORDS:

• Mentor
• mentoring
• undergraduate
• Excel@English
• scheme

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.