The English Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh is known for its popular eight-volume series Words for Students of English (University of Michigan Press). In the years since the series was first published, faculty at Pitt ELI has been considering new ways to address learners’ challenges in acquiring vocabulary. The result of the research and experience is a new five-volume series, Academic Vocabulary Building in English. This series weaves together three sets of knowledge: (1) the results of recent research from applied linguists and psycholinguists, (2) the rich classroom experience of the Institute faculty, who together have many decades of practical classroom ESL experience, and (3) the data gathered from our online student database and corpus studies that have informed us of which words students need to know more deeply.\nEach unit contains sections that emphasize various components of word learning. First, each chapter opens with a chart of target words and their various morphological forms. The next step establishes form-meaning mappings: Each word is listed with a definition and two example sentences. The lists and definitions are followed by exercises that concentrate students’ attention on establishing form-meaning links. These exercises consist of practice opportunities that require multiple retrievals in order to promote label-to-concept links and begin awareness of derivational and inflectional variations. Follow-up exercises focus on collocations related to the unit’s theme. Each chapter closes with exercises that can be used as quizzes. By the time students have finished a unit, they should have had both receptive and productive practice with the form, meaning, morphosyntax, and collocational properties of each lexical item.

Academic Vocabulary Building in English, Low-Intermediate: Volume 1 (Volume 1) (Pitt Series In English As A Second Language)

Reference

Smith, Dorolyn

McCormick, Dawn E.

Slaathaug, Marilyn Smith

Davis, Betsy

Juffs, Alan

Mizera, Greg

O'Neill, M. Christine

Ranson, Stacy

English as a Second Language

University of Michigan Press/ELT

The English Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh is known for its popular eight-volume series Words for Students of English (University of Michigan Press). In the years since the series was first published, faculty at Pitt ELI has been considering new ways to address learners’ challenges in acquiring vocabulary. The result of the research and experience is a new five-volume series, Academic Vocabulary Building in English. This series weaves together three sets of knowledge: (1) the results of recent research from applied linguists and psycholinguists, (2) the rich classroom experience of the Institute faculty, who together have many decades of practical classroom ESL experience, and (3) the data gathered from our online student database and corpus studies that have informed us of which words students need to know more deeply. Each unit contains sections that emphasize various components of word learning. First, each chapter opens with a chart of target words and their various morphological forms. The next step establishes form-meaning mappings: Each word is listed with a definition and two example sentences. The lists and definitions are followed by exercises that concentrate students’ attention on establishing form-meaning links. These exercises consist of practice opportunities that require multiple retrievals in order to promote label-to-concept links and begin awareness of derivational and inflectional variations. Follow-up exercises focus on collocations related to the unit’s theme. Each chapter closes with exercises that can be used as quizzes. By the time students have finished a unit, they should have had both receptive and productive practice with the form, meaning, morphosyntax, and collocational properties of each lexical item.

Academic Vocabulary Building in English, Intermediate: Volume 2 (Volume 2) (Pitt Series In English As A Second Language)

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Words for Students of English : A Vocabulary Series for ESL, Vol 2 (Pitt Series in English As a Second Language) (Volume 2)

Rogerson, Holly Deemer

Esarey, Gary

Schmandt, Linda

Words for Students of English : A Vocabulary Series for ESL, Vol. 4 (Pitt Series in English As a Second Language) (Volume 4)

Hershelman, Suzanne

Jasnow, Carol

Moltz, Carol

Words for Students of English : A Vocabulary Series for ESL, Vol. 6 (Pitt Series in English As a Second Language)

Words for Students of English : A Vocabulary Series for ESL, Vol. 6 (Pitt Series in English As a Second Language) (Volume 6)

Book by Rogerson, Holly Deemer, Esarey, Gary, Schmandt, Linda M., Smith, Dorolyn A.

Words for Students of English: A Vocabulary Series for ESL, Volume 2 (Volume 2) (Pitt Series In English As A Second Language)

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Expanding Skills for Understanding is the intermediate level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. The listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources.

Active Listening: Expanding Understanding Through Content (Student's Book 3)

Brown, Steven

Helgesen, Marc

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Cambridge University Press

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. The Teacher's Edition provides teaching suggestions, optional activities, listening scripts, and answer keys for the Student's Book.

Active Listening: Expanding Understanding through Content Teacher's edition

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities.  Three Audio Cassettes are provided to supplement the listening tasks found in the Student's Book. The listening program is also available on Audio CDs.

Active Listening: Expanding Understanding through Content Cassettes (2)

Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic. Student's Book 1 is intended for beginning-level students. The Student's Book offers 16 task-based units, each built around an engaging topic. Through a careful balance of activities, students learn to listen for main ideas, to listen for details, and to listen and make inferences. Prelistening schema-building activities help students build vocabulary, and listen-again activities provide additional skills practice. A full page of optional speaking activities with pronunciation practice is provided in each unit. Expansion units, with authentic student interviews, offer rich cultural material and provide review. A free Self-Study Audio CD is also included in every Student's Book.

Active Listening 1 Student's Book with Self-study Audio CD (Active Listening Second edition)

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