Students might find it a challenge to orientate themselves to the working world. In Essentials of Business Communication this book serves to bridge that gap with useful learning tools provided in the book and local examples that will be relevant to the Asian student. From detailed grammar/mechanics exercises to resources like the communication workshop to promote career skills, your learning experience will be meaningful and engaging. Students will also be trained to become an effective communicator in today’s wired and mobile workplace.
Power Reading is a three-book series specifically developed for the intermediate to advanced English language learner. The series has been developed to support a four-strand approach to language instruction. Each unit incorporates reading and listening passages on related content to both engage and inform learners. The graded levels of the series allow learners to comfortably progress to longer and more challenging topics as they move from book to book. Extension activities in the Power Reading series support the development of learners’ reading, listening, writing, and discussion skills through supplemental content that builds on each unit’s main topic.
Are you a top-downer or a bottom-upper? The debate as to the relative importance of these two approaches to understanding spoken or written text has been going on for decades. Most current textbooks take a more top-down approach. However, recent research indicates that we are often in situations where we are less able to use top-down skills, for example, in exams, or simply when we turn on the radio at random. At this point, our ability to decode becomes key. This session will show how Navigate, a new course from Oxford University Press, trains students to tackle texts from the bottom up, focusing on linguistic features in order to understand the text rather than use their existing knowledge to predict what the text is about. Students are not just able to understand the one text in front of them, but are able to apply these skills to the next text and every other text they come across. Therefore they are learning to listen and read for tomorrow.
Fascinating, informative and motivating- anyone that has watched a TED Talk knows just how engaging they can be. But do TED Talks have a place in the English language classroom? In this interactive presentation, the presenter will explore this question using examples from authentic TED talks which have been integrated into the language learning methodology of 21st Century Reading, a stunning new series from National Geographic Learning. Participants in the session will come away with an understanding of the rationale and techniques for using this authentic resource in their classroom.
I think we would all agree with the old adage, "Variety is the spice of life." It’s true in our lives, at the office, and as educators we try to make it true in our classrooms. We mix skills-building exercises with interactive activities, fluency-focused activities with accuracy-focused ones, individual practice with pair or group work, and so on. In the reading classroom this may be more challenging to accomplish, yet if we want to keep our students motivated and engaged, it is essential that we do so here as well. This presentation will focus on ways of creating a more dynamic and interactive environment in the reading classroom, one that keeps students thinking and reflecting critically about the world around them.
