Insights I: A Content-Based Esl Text for Academic Preparation - Couverture souple

Brinton, Donna; Jensen, Linda; Repath-Martos, Lyn; Frodesen, Jan; Holton, Christine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0201898543 ISBN 13 : 9780201898545

Editeur : Pearson Education (US), 1999

Synopsis

Insights: A Content-based Approach to Academic Preparation, by Donna Brinton, Linda Jensen, Lyn Repath-Martos, Jan Frodesen, and Christine Holten, helps pre-college and college-level ESL students develop the crucial academic skills they need to meet the demands of academic English. By exploring four high-interest academic content areas, students learn to synthesize information from a variety of sources and apply their knowledge in stimulating discussion and writing assignments. Features *Students work with a variety of authentic source materials, including selections from college texts, real college lectures, visual materials, and literary passages. *An integrated skills approach weaves together reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities with context-related grammar and vocabulary exercises. *Videos of real university lectures accustom students to typical North American lecture style and natural language. *A wide variety of academic strategies includes listening for emphasis cues, finding the appropriate definition for a word, using examples with generalizations, and more.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Insights: A Content-based Approach to Academic Preparation, by Donna Brinton, Linda Jensen, Lyn Repath-Martos, Jan Frodesen, and Christine Holten, helps pre-college and college-level ESL students develop the crucial academic skills they need to meet the demands of academic English. By exploring four high-interest academic content areas, students learn to synthesize information from a variety of sources and apply their knowledge in stimulating discussion and writing assignments.

Features

• Students work with a variety of authentic source materials, including selections from college texts, real college lectures, visual materials, and literary passages.
• An integrated skills approach weaves together reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities with context-related grammar and vocabulary exercises.
• Videos of real university lectures accustom students to typical North American lecture style and natural language.
• A wide variety of academic strategies includes listening for emphasis cues, finding the appropriate definition for a word, using examples with generalizations, and more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education (US)
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0201898543
• ISBN 13: 9780201898545
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 191
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Pearson; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; Italie