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

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ISBN 10: 0201898543 ISBN 13: 9780201898545

Casa editrice: Longman Pub Group, 1999

Riassunto

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.

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Book by Donna Brinton Linda Jensen Lyn RepathMartos Jan Fr

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Longman Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0201898543
• ISBN 13: 9780201898545
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 191
• Redattore: Jensen Linda, Brinton Donna
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile