Improve Your English: English in the Workplace (book only)
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 25 November 2008
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English in the Workplace consists of ninety-one interview segments with everyday people, not actors, speaking English in the United States. The interviews are organized into ten chapters. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of work, from looking for work and interviewing for jobs to communicating and using technology at work. The goal in using an interview format was to elicit natural speech and to allow the speakers to express themselves as freely and naturally as possible. You will meet people of all ages and nationalities, from all walks of life: a policeman, a nurse, accountants, a paramedic, a student, teachers, a librarian, a mechanic, an IT professional, a travel agent, a sign language interpreter, musicians, and others. Each chapter includes the complete transcript of each interview segment as well as definitions of vocabulary words, idioms, and constructions whose meanings or cultural references may not be immediately obvious to a nonnative English speaker. You will find questions and exercises at the end of each chapter that are relevant to both the text of the interview and your own personal experiences.
Talk is the medium through which children learn; and yet children may not realise why their contributions to classroom talk are so important. This book provides teachers with resources for developing children's understanding of speaking and listening, and their skills in using talk for learning.
This useful resource has hundreds of ideas, activity templates, reproducible activities … for:
News Warm ups Pre-reading / Post-reading Using headlines Working with words While-reading / While-listening Moving from text to speech Post-reading / Post-listening Discussions Using opinions Plans Language Using lists Using quotes Task-based activities Role plays Using the central characters in the article Using themes from the news Homework
Side by Side Interactive is an innovative video-based software program that puts students in control of a dynamic language-learning experience using “state-of-the-art” technology.
Case studies of individual language learners are a valuable means of illustrating issues connected with learning, using, and in some cases, losing another language. Yet, even though increasing numbers of graduate students and scholars conduct research using case studies or mix quantitative and qualitative methods, there are no dedicated applied linguistics research methods texts that guide one through the case study process. This book fills that gap.
Edited by: Maria - 19 October 2008
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