Oxford's new American Dictionaries for learners of English offer students a dictionary that is just right for their level. Written specifically for students working to improve their English language skills, these dictionaries support English learners, struggling readers, and special education students with Basic to Advanced levels. Based on extensive research with U.S. teachers and language-learning experts, these three new dictionaries help students: Transition from picture dictionaries more easily by using words they can understand for definitions and using illustrations for more difficult words. Learn content area words from math, chemistry, biology, geography, etc. Focus on the Academic Word List and the Oxford 3000TM(the most important words to learn in English). Extend their vocabulary with extra help note boxes throughout the dictionary-help with related vocabulary synonyms, topic collocations, Academic Word List collocations, and word families, affixes, and more. Write different types of texts in English, from resumes to e-mails to essays, with the Writing Tutor (Intermediate and Advanced levels only). Included in each dictionary is a CD-ROM containing a separate Picture Dictionary and a Topic Dictionary, allowing students to search for words by content area or topic, and create their own topic dictionaries. The full A-Z dictionary is included with spoken headwords and a 'record your own voice' function for practicing pronunciation.

Oxford American Dictionary Vocabulary Builder

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Folse, Keith S.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Oxford University Press

This mid-intermediate level ESL writing text explores how to generate, develop, and organize ideas at the paragraph level. Major units include coverage of paragraph structure, introductions to five rhetorical modes (definition, process analysis, description, opinion, and narration), and an appendix with additional practice in writing, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation.
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Writer's Notes and Language Focus features contain brief discussions of grammar topics and effective writing strategies.</li>
<li>Engaging activities for students include copying exercises, analysis of paragraph elements, and sequencing activities which highlight connecting and transitional words and phrases.</li>
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Great Paragraphs: An Introduction to Writing Paragraphs

Muchmore-Vokoun, April

Solomon, Elena Vestri

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Heinle & Heinle Pub

This popular test preparation text has been revised to reflect changes made in 1995 to the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFLRM) examination. Nonnative speakers of English who wish to enter an institution of higher learning in the United States must attain a score of a certain level on the TOEFLRM. This textbook helps students at the intermediate level prepare for the examination.The new and improved edition contains an added bonus -- a Rapid Grammar Review to help students score higher on Section 2 of the test. The new material offers practice in the twenty most common grammar and structure-related test questions. In addition, the new edition contains thirty strategies on test-taking.Intermediate TOEFLRM Test Practices is unique in allowing students to focus on one part of the test at a time by using the short practice exercises -- 100 questions for each. This format helps students to hone their skills gradually and observe their own improvement.

Intermediate Toefl Test Practices

Test Preparation

TOEFL & TOEIC

Univ of Michigan Pr

The new edition of Intermediate Reading Practices reflects changes to reading skill and vocabulary development since 1992. More than half of all the readings are new. In addition, activities for discussion and listening have been added. The new edition offers enhanced vocabulary instruction, particularly word parts and families, with an emphasis on words on the Academic Word List. The third edition of this long-time favorite also includes the much-loved timed readings and word recognition drills that improve reading fluency.

Intermediate Reading Practices, 3rd Edition: Building Reading and Vocabulary Skills

English as a Second Language

University of Michigan Press/ELT

In Vocabulary Myths, Keith S. Folse breaks down the teaching of second language vocabulary into eight commonly held myths. In debunking each myth, he introduces the myth with a story based on his 25 years of teaching experience (in the United States and abroad), continues with a presentation of what empirical research has shown on the topic, and finishes with a list of what teachers can do in their classrooms to facilitate true vocabulary acquisition. The goal of Vocabulary Myths is to foster a paradigm shift that correctly views vocabulary as fundamental in any second language learning process and demonstrates that research supports this goal-that in fact there is a wealth of empirical evidence to support these views. In addition, an important theme is that teachers have overestimated how much vocabulary students really understand, and as a result, the so-called "comprehensible input" is neither comprehensible nor input. The second language vocabulary acquisition myths reexamined in this book are: *In learning another language, vocabulary is not as important as grammar or other areas. *Using word lists to learn L2 vocabulary is unproductive. *Presenting new vocabulary in semantic sets facilitates learning. *The use of translations to learn new vocabulary should be discouraged. *Guessing words from context is an excellent strategy for learning L2 vocabulary. *The best vocabulary learners make use of one or two really specific vocabulary learning strategies. *The best dictionary for L2 learners is a monolingual dictionary. *Teachers, textbooks, and curricula cover L2 vocabulary adequately.

Vocabulary Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching (The Myths Series)

101 Clear Grammar Tests contains 101 reproducible tests on common points in the teaching of beginning, intermediate, and advanced ESL grammar. This collection of tests includes a variety of question types and reflects a range of different approaches to testing. As a result, busy teachers will be able to easily find tests that resemble the teaching and learning styles of their own classrooms. The tests in this book are arranged by topic, with two tests per grammar point, in a sequence that matches the one found in the Clear Grammar textbooks, Books 1-4. This test bank also contains a bonus-nine comprehensive advanced grammar tests. Like its predecessor (100 Clear Grammar Tests), this book can be used along with any other ESL grammar series.

101 Clear Grammar Tests: Reproducible Grammar Tests for ESL/EFL Classes

Ivone, Jeanine Aida

Pollgreen, Shawn

*What elements make a speaking activity successful? *Which tasks or activities really help build speaking fluency? *What does the research show regarding speaking activities? *What mistakes do ESL teachers often make in speaking activity design? In this highly accessible and practical resource, Keith S. Folse provides a wealth of information to help ESL/EFL teachers design and use speaking tasks that will actually improve students' speaking fluency. The book presents and discusses the relevant research and assessment issues and includes case studies from twenty different settings and classrooms around the world so that readers learn from others about the problems and successes of using various speaking activities. Teachers will find the chapters on Twenty Successful Activities and Ten Unsuccessful Activities particularly valuable. The successful activities are provided for classroom use and are reproducible. The book also contains five appendixes that explain what teachers need to know about vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar and how they affect the teaching of speaking. Samples of successful lesson plans and a list of resources useful for teaching speaking are also included. Keith S. Folse, Ph.D., is Coordinator, TESOL Programs, University of Central Florida (Orlando). He is the author of Vocabulary Myths (University of Michigan Press, 2004) and more than 35 second language textbooks, including texts on grammar, reading, speaking, listening, and writing.

The Art of Teaching Speaking: Research and Pedagogy for the ESL/EFL Classroom

For many teachers of English language learners, the field of assessment is foreign territory. Assessment has its own culture, traditions, and terminology. This training guide is intended to help classroom teachers become more comfortable creating and using assessments. A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners provides helpful insights into the practice and terminology of assessment. The text focuses on providing the cornerstones of good assessments―usefulness, validity, reliability, practicality, washback, authenticity, transparency, and security―and techniques for testing. It devotes a chapter to the assessment of each of the four main skill areas (reading, writing, listening, and speaking), and also covers placement testing, such as using TOEFL® and MELAB, diagnostic testing, evaluation, and instructional decision-making with regard to testing. Tips to improve students’ test-taking strategies are offered, and each chapter ends with a helpful list of Ten Things to Remember, as well as informative case studies featuring two teachers and their assessment decisions. Incorporating its own principles, A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners opens with a short quiz for the reader called Are You Testwise? that quickly determines how each teacher will benefit from this indispensable guide.

A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners (Michigan Teacher Training (Paperback))

Hubley, Nancy

Coombe, Christine

Keys to Teaching Grammar to English Language Learners: A Practical Handbook is not intended to be an exhaustive reference book about ELL grammar. Written for classroom teachers (K-12, ESL, EFL), this book teaches the most common ELL grammar points in an accessible way through real ELL errors with suggested teaching techniques. Relevant grammar terminology is explained where practical. The four objectives of the book are to help teachers: (1) identify common ELL grammar points and understand the details associated with each one; (2) improve their ability to answer any grammar question on the spot (when on the "hot seat"); (3) anticipate common ELL errors by grammar point, by first language, and by proficiency level; and (4) develop more effective grammar/language learning lessons. The presentation of each of the 15 keys (grammar points) features information on typical ELL errors, an accessible grammar explanation including examples of mistakes, a native language interference chart, and ideas for teaching the grammar point. The Workbook for Keys to Teaching Grammar to English Language Learners provides extra practice in the grammar points studied in the handbook.

Keys to Teaching Grammar to English Language Learners: A Practical Handbook (Michigan Teacher Training (Paperback))

Clear Grammar is a four-level grammar series that features a unique combination of useful grammar information written in clear language with activities that promote more accurate and fluent vocabulary usage, writing, speaking, and reading. 
Important features of all four new editions of Clear Grammar include:
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<li>More user-friendly charts to accompany grammar explanations</li>
<li>High-frequency, corpus-based vocabulary related to each grammar point</li>
<li>Grammar discovery tasks using students’ inductive learning skills</li>
<li>A greater variety and increased number of activities, including more practice online</li>
<li>Many more activities at the longer discourse level</li>
<li>The addition of reading practice at the end of the unit, as well a critical-reading task </li>
<li>More writing practice, including one on editing student writing and another for original student writing</li>
<li>Two vocabulary practice activities, including a focus on collocations, in each unit, as well as many one-minute mini lessons showing the connection between grammar and vocabulary</li>
<li>More speaking practice, with activities that require students to speak and listen to each other while using the target grammar </li>
<li>Support for teachers in the form of indicators that reference how to teach the grammar points in the Clear Grammar series from Keys to Teaching Grammar for English Language Learners by Keith S. Folse (978-0-472-03220-4).
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Clear Grammar 1 offers students and teachers a solid introduction to beginning-level grammar. It also includes an introduction to the present perfect. 
Clear Grammar 1, 2nd Ed., includes
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<li>Present tense of be and regular verbs</li>
<li>Possessive adjectives and demonstrative words</li>
<li>Descriptive adjectives</li>
<li>Past tense of be, regular, and irregular verbs</li>
<li>Wh- questions</li>
<li>Present progressive </li>
<li>Count vs. non-count nouns</li>
<li>Prepositions</li>
<li>Be going to + Verb</li>
<li>Review of verb tenses</li>
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The book's companion website includes the additional grammar/vocabulary activities indicated in the textbook.

Clear Grammar 1, 2nd Edition: Keys to Grammar for English Language Learners

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