Added by: Anonymous | Karma: | Grammar, Only for teachers | 15 September 2016
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Grammar Space Kids is a three-level grammar series designed for low beginner students. With Grammar Space Kids, students learn basic grammar rules that will help them build a strong foundation of English grammar. The series’ easy and fun approach to English grammar helps students expand their understanding of grammar rules and also further develop their speaking and writing skills. An array of interesting writing exercises encourage students to use the grammar rules they have learned in meaningful contexts while gaining confidence in their abilities to write accurate sentences.
Research, teaching, service, and public outreach―all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly learning―disciplinary knowledge that faculty teach, explore in research, and share with the academic community. How do professors pursue such learning when they must give their attention as well to administrative and other obligations?
While reading skills are necessary for life-long learning and success, many students experience reading difficulties and a disproportionate number are from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds.
Added by: Anonymous | Karma: | Coursebooks, Only for teachers, Audio | 14 September 2016
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Listen Up is a fun and easy 3-level listening course for lower-elementary aged learners of English. In each lesson, colorful characters excite and guide young learners through fun and interesting listening activities. A carefully designed syllabus provides an appropriate structure to allow students to build up their basic listening skills and comprehension. Each Listen Up book has 16 core units and four review units.
Using Literature for Children and Adolescents for Intermediate Language Acquisition
This article suggests that literature written for children and adolescents is appropriate for use with intermediate-level students of English as a second or foreign language of all ages (including adults). Following a description of this literature, three instructional applications are reviewed: extensive free reading based on language acquisition theory, close reading while attending to form and function using stylistic analyses along with a language awareness perspective, and reading a story to develop essential cultural understanding of the target language...
