Facilitating L2 Writers' Interpretation of Source Texts

Student success in higher education often involves the effective integration of source texts into students' writing. Teaching L2 students to write from sources is challenging because of several issues, including limited practice with reading-to-write tasks and limited knowledge about the organizational structure (at many levels) of the texts they are reading and those they are expected to write. In this pedagogical article the researchers present key reading-to-write instructional interventions. The interventions promote reading-to-write development by moving from comprehension of source materials to a focus on students' capacities to interpret (i.e., summarize and paraphrase) source texts.

Blended Learning: An Evolving Praxis

TED (Technology Entertainment Design), a collection of regularly updated talks, offers a web-based platform that is easily accessible. This will serve learners as they become members of an increasingly global community. By adapting literature circles into the context of blended learning, this article illustrates how such a learning platform can offer students a meaningful and interactive (language) learning experience. This article also contributes to ongoing discussions regarding technology and second language acquisition, and how these intersect to provide effective and relevant social media–based lessons that serve the demands of L2 learners in the digital age.

High School Graduation: K-12 Strategies That Work

Based on first-hand experiences from one of the world’s fastest improving school systems, this comprehensive resource provides concrete, detailed, and research-based tools with particular attention to learning progressions. Scaffolded instruction and leadership strategies promote early and sound foundations in literacy and numeracy, build pathways to close achievement gaps, and emphasize character and citizenship development, among other strategies, to improve graduation rates.

Write Right: Paragraph to Essay is a three-level writing series for intermediate to high intermediate  students. Each unit takes a process writing approach in order to encourage students to independently  brainstorm, outline, draft, revise, and edit their own writing. As students move through the series,  they will master paragraph writing and various writing skills in order to write short essays by the end.

In Book 3, students will expand on what they have learned about paragraph writing to write short essays on topics that require more serious thinking.

Your College Experience, Two Year College Edition, 10 edition

Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience, Two-Year College Edition by John Gardner and Betsy Barefoot offers today's diverse students the practical help they need to make the transition to college and get the most out of their time there. Goal setting has always been central to this text, and the Tenth Edition has been revised with added coverage and activities to strengthen this material throughout. In addition, a new focus on self-assessment of strengths will help students see where they are already succeeding so that they get off to a great start and stay in college.