Testing The Spoken English Of Young Norwegians
This book reports on a two-part study: the validation of a test of spoken English for Norwegian secondary school pupils and the corpus-based investigation of the role played by 'smallwords', such as 'well', 'sort of', and 'you know', in bringing about fluency. The first study builds on the Messickian six central aspects of construct validity to produce a practical framework for test validation. It identifies potential sources of invalidity in the test being examined particularly relating to 'fluency'. The second study sets about to explore the concept of fluency, and to expose the extent to which it is acknowledged in the literature to be associated with smallwords, albeit under other names. The findings from the corpus study are drawn on to propose new elements to include in descriptors of fluency, and the implications of the study for classroom practices are discussed.
Learners’ Stories
Learners' Stories is a collection of nine original papers exploring individual differences in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. This book focusses on language learners as people, not as abstract individuals. By listening to the voices of the learners themselves and setting them in the context of their personal and social lives it advances our understanding of the enormous tasks faced by second and foreign language learners. It contains new and previously unpublished research which fills a gap in the existing literature. It also demonstrates how first-person accounts of langauge learning can be used practically both inside and outside the classroom.
Common Mistakes At Proficiency...and How To Avoid Them
This invaluable little book highlights the real mistakes that students make in the exam - and shows how to avoid them. Based on analysis of thousands of exam scripts, each unit targets a key problem area. Clear explanations and exercises help students to use the language accurately. Regular tests offer students a further opportunity to check and consolidate what they have learnt. * Highlights common mistakes that learners really make * Based on analysis of thousands of exam scripts * Short, snappy explanations focus on key problem areas * Includes exam-style exercises
Double Dealing Student`s Book: Intermediate Business English Course
Double Dealing Student`s Book: Pre-Intermediate Business English Course
Primary Pronunciation Box
60+ fun-filled photocopiable activities including rhymes, chants, poems, puzzles and games.
A Modular Approach to Testing English Language Skills
Documents the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002. As a context for how CELS was conceived, developed, constructed, validated and managed, the book traces the history of exams which have influenced CELS. The Royal Society of Arts (RSA), later UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) Communicative Use of English as a Foreign Language examinations (CUEFL) was one such influence, as were the Certificates in Communication Skills in English (CCSE), these exams being a development of the CUEFL. The University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (UODLE) examinations, taken over by UCLES in 1995, were a further influence on CELS. UODLE itself had worked in partnership with the Association of Recognised Language Schools (ARELS) Examinations Trust, the Oxford EFL reading and writing exams for many years offered in tandem with the ARELS Oral English exams.
Second Language Listening
Second Language Listening combines listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical practice. The paperback edition combines up-to-date listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical practice. As an essential part of communicative competence, listening is a skill, which deserves equal treatment with the other basic skills of speaking, reading, and writing. The authors describe current models of listening theory and exemplify each with a textbook task. They address the role of technology in teaching listening, questioning techniques, and testing. This text is designed for use with both pre-service and in-service teachers who are involved in the teaching of listening or the design of pedagogic materials for listening.
Task-based Language Teaching
The ground-breaking Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989), has been completely updated and revised to create this new edition, now titled Task-Based Language Teaching. The previous edition helped to set the research agenda in teaching methodology for a decade and while it underpins this new title, the material has been thoroughly updated and includes four completely new chapters.
New Directions
New Directions Second edition is a thematic reading and writing-skills text for advanced learners that bridges the gap between ESL and college writing courses. New Directions is a thematic reading/writing book aimed at the most advanced learners. It prepares students for the rigors of college-level writing by having them read long, challenging, authentic readings. This emphasis on multiple longer readings as a precursor to writing gives New Directions its distinctive character. The book also contains a handbook reference section on the essentials of writing.
Potato Pals 1
This exciting series of readers teaches everyday language in a way that is fun, simple, and successful. It is ideal for young students. Each of these colorful books introduces a stem phrase on the left-hand page, while the right-hand page completes the everyday sentence or phrase. Each spread builds upon the previous page, reviewing the language with a picture cue. By the end of the book, the students have learned eight sentences and can repeat each sentence by using the pictures as cues. Each reader features a list of vocabulary words that can be taught along with the sentences. The audio CD contains a reading of each story, listen-and-point activities, and songs.
How the Earth Gets Its Shape
The readers expand student's command of the vocabulary, language and concepts used in teaching math, history, science and social studies. Pre-reading and post-reading exercises and glossary reinforce reading comprehension, vocabulary and language structures. The Teacher's Book includes reproducible pages for additional practice and reinforcement of vocabulary and language. Color art includes diagrams, photos, graphic organizers and illustrations.
Face2face Elementary Student’s Book With Cd Rom Klett Edition
What’s for Breakfast?
The kids are back! Tommy, Ting, Diego, Alison and Zoe from The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids return for more adventures in these engaging stories that enhance children's vocabulary and reading skills. The Kid's Readers feature:
Fun on the Farm
The kids are back! Tommy, Ting, Diego, Alison and Zoe from The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids return for more adventures in these engaging stories that enhance children's vocabulary and reading skills. The Kid's Readers feature:
Hide And Seek
The kids are back! Tommy, Ting, Diego, Alison and Zoe from The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids return for more adventures in these engaging stories that enhance children's vocabulary and reading skills. The Kid's Readers feature: ^
Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment Book
Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment enables practitioners to apply statistics effectively to the development and use of language assessments. The Workbook and CD contain datasets from actual language assessments and data analysis exercises.
Assessing Grammar
A renewed interest in grammar from pedagogical and research perspectives has created the need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners. Assessing Grammar presents a broadened and comprehensive framework of second language grammatical knowledge and uses this as a base to help teachers create their own assessment tools to test students' grammar.
The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids
The kids are back! Tommy, Ting, Diego, Alison and Zoe from The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids return for more adventures in these engaging stories that enhance children's vocabulary and reading skills. The Kid's Readers feature:
Out the Window
The kids are back! Tommy, Ting, Diego, Alison and Zoe from The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids return for more adventures in these engaging stories that enhance children's vocabulary and reading skills. The Kid's Readers feature:
Snow Tracks
The kids are back! Tommy, Ting, Diego, Alison and Zoe from The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids return for more adventures in these engaging stories that enhance children's vocabulary and reading skills. The Kid's Readers feature:
Contact USA 1
Contact USA 1, by Paul Abraham and Daphne Mackey, is a new, lower-level addition to the successful Contact USA series. Contact USA 1 introduces high-beginning students to U.S. culture through relevant topics such as meeting people, work, and family while preparing students for the challenges of academic reading and assessment. Features Extensive reading skills practice and vocabulary-building exercises Varied texts such as charts, graphs, and narrative Critical thinking tasks for pair, group, and class interaction The Contact USA series includes Contact USA 1, Contact USA 2, and Contact USA 3.
Research Genres
This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within the genres. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, with a special emphasis on various metaphors of genre. The book is full of carefully worded detail and each chapter ends with suggestions for pedagogical practice. The volume closes with evaluations of contrastive rhetoric, applied corpus linguistics, and critical approaches to EAP. Research Genres provides a rich and scholarly account of this key area.
Making Connections
The series helps students gain insight into how academic text is organized and how to read effectively. Making Connections High Intermediate is a reading skills book aimed at students who need to prepare for academic college reading tasks. The book has four high-interest thematic units, each with multiple readings. Twelve reading skills and strategies sections give students insight into how academic texts are organized and how to read effectively.
