Speechcraft is a multi-book project that includes one core text that can be accompanied by several different workbooks, depending on the needs of the learner. The first workbook to accompany the core text was written with international teaching assistants (ITAs) in mind, and it expands on and contextualizes the content of the core text for ITAs. The second workbook was written for anyone who needs to com-municate effectively in academic settings. All Speechcraft books have been designed for advanced non-native speakers who expect to interact with native speakers in academic and professional settings. These materials provide rules, learning strategies, and contextualized practice in the stress, rhythm, and melody of English words and discourse--the features of English pro-nunciation that most affect intelligibility. For example, students will learn patterns for using stress to highlight contrasts, for connecting words smoothly, and for emphasizing the correct syllable in a word. In the workbooks, students will also apply these patterns to teaching and university contexts (e.g., lectures, discussions, labs, office hours) in guided and communicative exercises.

Speechcraft: Discourse Pronunciation for Advanced Learners (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Reference

Hahn, Laura Diane

Dickerson, Wayne Beall

English as a Second Language

University of Michigan Press/ELT

More Mastery: Vocabulary for Academic Reading

The Mastery textbooks introduce intermediate-level ESL/EFL students to the most frequently used words in academic environments, based on the 800-word University Word List developed by Xue and Nation. Adding this academic vocabulary to the 2,000 basic words of English enables students to understand 95 percent of academic texts in English. Many of the words on the list, however, are not unique to academic settings, making the textbooks practical vocabulary and self-study guides.The Mastery textbooks familiarize students with American culture: students read about prominent Americans involved in a variety of fields and businesses. The target vocabulary is introduced in the readings, which are taken from current biographies and have been selected to stimulate student interest.More Mastery introduces students to Billie Jean King, Nien Cheng, Jon Krakauer, Katharine Graham, Maria Martinez, Madeleine Albright, Ansel Adams, Thurgood Marshall, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The vocabulary in More Mastery is more advanced than the vocabulary in Mastery.

Wells, Linda Diane

Valcourt, Gladys Ann

The compact disk (6 Tracks) accompanies the textbook Strategies for College Success (ISBN 0-472-03060-4). Strategies for College Success was designed to be used in a general study skills or college orientation course, or as a supplementary text in a class with a writing focus. Running time: 000:41:09.

Strategies for College Success: A Study Skills Guide

Renn,Diana

Words, Language & Grammar

Fish Trek is a well-designed, interactive computer game designed specifically to help teach English article usage.  It offers six game levels, ten levels of difficulty, complete print options, tracking of wrong answers, and a comprehensive practice session.  Learners always have a chance to redo or recycle material that they missed or didn't understand. Feedback is tailored to the question and not the generic "right" or "wrong."  A plus for teachers is the test generator feature. Version 2.0 of Fish Trek includes a new practice area with its own testing component and features an on-the-fly mistakes viewer. While Fish Trek software supports The Article Book (0-472-08639-1), the book and the software can be used separately.

Fish Trek, Version 2.0: An Adventure in Articles for Language Students

COLE, TOM

This product contains the supplemental listening activities (21 tracks) to support the textbook American Legal English (978-0-472-03206-0), and are available via the audio CD or MP3 download (978-0-472-00360-0). Running time: 000:36:43.  The American Legal English products were developed to help non-native speakers improve their ability to understand and communicate in English with their legal counterparts around the world. The text is an introduction to basic legal information and the U.S. legal system that addresses the major areas of law and provides actual cases and statutes so that students can become familiar with legal syntax and legal vocabulary.

American Legal English, 2nd Edition, Supplemental Audiofiles: Using Language in Legal Contexts (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Hall, Charles

Lee, Debra Suzette

Barone, Susan

Legal Education

Contains materials and excerpts from nonfiction books and from NPR that deal with popular, newsworthy issues in science and technology. This book also contains related exercises in comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, grammar, and writing. It is aimed at English learners who are engineers, scientists, or university students in technical fields.

Tech Talk: Better English through Reading in Science and Technology

Eskey, Felixa

Adventures in Literature is a lower-level introduction to literature for ESL learners. The literature used is unique -- the authors draw on dialogue (mostly from short stories) to help less-proficient students develop an interest and understanding of literature. The authors whose work appears in this text include O. Henry, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Mona Gardner, James Thurber, Saki, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Colette, Alphonse Daudet, and Kate Chopin.Adventures in Literature includes a focus on vocabulary and a review of grammar.Each reading is accompanied by:pre-reading exercises grammar lessons vocabulary development exercises writing exercises discussion topics.

Adventures in Literature: New Pathways in Reading

Kay, Judith

Gelshenen, Rosemary

In this deeply stirring account, Jean Trounstine, who spent 10 years teaching at Framingham (MA) Women's Prison, focuses on six inmates who, each in her own way, discover in the power of Shakespeare a way to transcend the painful constraints of incarceration. Shakespeare Behind Bars is a powerful story about the redemptive power of art and education. Originally published in cloth in 2001, the paperback includes a new foreword that will inspire all teachers who work with students others have deemed unteachable. A new afterword updates readers on the prison art's program -- and the author herself -- since 2001.

Shakespeare Behind Bars: One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison

Politics & Social Sciences

Jean Trounstine

Social Sciences

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

Folse, Keith S.

Second language students not only need strategies for drafting and revising to write effectively, but also a clear understanding of genre so that they can appropriately structure their writing for various contexts. Over that last decade, increasing attention has been paid to the notion of genre and its central place in language teaching and learning. Genre and Second Language Writing enters into this important debate, providing an accessible introduction to current theory and research in the area of written genres-and applying these understandings to the practical concerns of today's EFL/ESL classroom. Each chapter includes discussion and review questions and small-scale practical research activities. Like the other texts in the popular Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers, this book will interest ESL teachers in training, teacher educators, current ESL instructors, and researchers and scholars in the area of ESL writing.

Genre and Second Language Writing (The Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers)

Hyland, Ken

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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