Fun, engaging, and action-packed! Students learn better and are more motivated when they can put English into action! The second edition of English in Action provides learners with competency-based support for building language, life, and work skills in real world settings. Learners are engaged as workers, family members, and citizens through a communicative, practical, and active approach. FunEnglish in Action is filled with fun and exciting content and activities which motivate students to master the skills presented.EngagingEnglish in Action empowers students and promotes learner persistence through dynamic, communicative activities, helping to build confidence in and out of the classroom.Action-packedEnglish in Action encourages learners to communicate and participate in a lively learning process that offers interactive technology options, providing various avenues to learning.
Format: CD-ROM
CONTRIBUTORS: Barbara Foley
EAN: 9781111005597
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 603 g
HEIGHT: 193 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Cengage Learning, Inc
DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-06-28
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GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
WIDTH: 124 cm
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Book Themes:
Language learning: speaking skills
Barbara Foley had planned on taking early retirement after 38 years as a full-time professor of ESOL at Union County College, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. However, her “retirement” lasted only five months and she is now back in the classroom, directing an ESOL program for refugees. She has presented at numerous workshops, conferences, and colleges throughout the United States and Mexico, specifically in the areas of listening, CALL, grammar, communicative classroom activities, Generation 1.5 students, and Extensive Reading. Her many publications include English in Action, Grammar in Action, Listen to Me, Now Hear This, and workbooks for the Heinle Picture Dictionary. Elizabeth Neblett teaches ESL full-time at Union County College in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In addition to teaching, Liz serves on the executive committee of her faculty union. She has presented workshops on teaching at many TESOL conventions and has done workshops on how to use English in Action throughout Mexico. She has co-authored English in Action, Grammar in Action, Books 2-3, Basic Grammar in Action, and has authored a series of novellas for ESL students.