A collection of approaches to reading in a foreign language. The contributors to the volume all place reading at the heart of learning a foreign language and entering a foreign culture, and they consider issues and methods of language education from such diverse perspectives as cognitive theory, applied linguistics, technology as hermeneutic, history, literary theory and cross-cultural analysis. The contributors - teachers of French, German, Greek, Japanese, and Spanish - call for language teachers and theorists to refocus on the importance of reading skills.
Reading Shelf is a three-level series designed to develop reading skills of high-beginning students of English. It extends students fundamental reading skills while presenting accessible activities to practice listening, speaking, and writing skills in English
Short Articles for Comprehension is a three-level reading course intended for high-beginning to low-intermediate students learning to read English. The non-fiction passages found throughout this series present students with a wide range of informative articles that will help transition students from a learning-to-read stage to a reading-to-learn stage of language development. Transcripts reuploaded
Reading Shelf is a three-level series designed for high-beginner level young readers. As students work their way through the series, they will continually reinforce high-frequency sight words while focusing on learning a limited number of new vocabulary items in each unit. This allows students to develop reading fluency as they broaden their understanding of English word forms, structures, and sentence patterns.