Arrive UK

Questions: How can we better prepare our international students for life and study in the UK? How can we allay their fears about living in a new country?; How can we improve their awareness of UK academic culture before they arrive?

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Answer: Arrive UK: Arrive UK is an e-tutored set of interactive online learning materials for preparing international students for living and studying in the UK.
eLanguages has been successfully delivering this pre-arrival online course to University of Southampton pre-sessional students since 2005.

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Money matters
These activities will help you prepare for managing your financial affairs while you are living in the UK.
Dealing with the change in culture
In these activities, you will learn more about culture shock and the kind of challenges that you may meet.

Arrive UK benefits students by:

introducing them to their future place of study
helping them to prepare for changes they can expect when moving to a new country
informing them about the part of the UK they will be living and studying in
enabling them to make friends with other students before arriving
preparing them for academic study at university

Arrive UK works because:

it can be e-tutored by an EAP specialist
it uses multiple media, podcasts and vodcasts
learning materials are activity-led and learner-friendly
materials engage students in reflection and are enhanced with feedback
this combination stimulates student interaction in discussion forum and chatroom