An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners Short Description: …
An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners
Short Description: For more accessible and classroom-friendly (Word and PDF) versions of this book, please view and download them at PDXScholar. This Pressbook version primarily exists to encourage others to adapt and adopt Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners using Pressbooks. This textbook is designed for advanced beginning-intermediate English language learners in an academic English program.
Long Description: Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners is designed for advanced beginning-intermediate English language learners in an academic English program. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary and reviews basic grammar points. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers, as well as links to additional listening resources on the web.
Word Count: 16252
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These materials were designed as part of the Equity and Open Education …
These materials were designed as part of the Equity and Open Education Faculty Cohort in the Summer of 2020. The materials are for IRW 90 -- Foundations of College Reading and Composition
This document contains three parts:
1. My Implementation Goals 2. Open Access Textbooks used in the course The Word on College Reading and Writing 1,2,3 Write! 3. IRW 90 Course Calendar (Weeks 1-2) incorporating the open access textbooks with links to related activities and assignments.
IRW 90 Foundations of College Reading and Composition
Course Description Covers reading and writing processes, topic development, and revision for clarity. Focuses on developing flexible strategies for reading and writing, and producing clear and coherent paragraphs and essays. Emphasizes strategies for comprehension and metacognition, critical reading and thinking skills, intellectual curiosity, vocabulary development, and writing conventions.
Intended Outcomes for the course Upon completion of the course students should be able to: Read to understand main ideas, supporting details, and a writer’s purpose in a variety of texts. Use composing and reading strategies for comprehension. Use reading strategies to write coherent texts that develop ideas in support of a central idea. Use writing conventions (content, form, format) to communicate the writer’s ideas. Use strategies to enhance and diversify knowledge of vocabulary. Follow a process to access information in textbooks and other reference texts. Use flexible strategies for pre-reading, reading, reviewing, rereading, correcting comprehension, drafting, revising, and editing.
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