Cambridge Bec Vantage 2 Student’s Book with Answers
Four complete Practice Tests from UCLES plus answer key, audio transcripts and introduction to the exam. Providing the most authentic exam preparation available, these past papers allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination techniques. Books are numbered to indicate how many are available. Numbers do not refer to levels.
Pensando En Ingles/Thinking in English
Pensando en ingl矇s shows ESL learners how to form all types of sentences in English, without having to resort to the mechanics of grammar. It accomplishes this with the systematic repetition of grammar patterns in the context of naturalistic dialogues and exercises. By using the same pattern repeatedly in many practical situations, readers will learn to use these everyday English expressions automatically and begin to think in English. New in this revised edition is a comprehensive answer key.
Assessing Speaking
The assessment of language learners is of growing importance in English language teaching and applied linguistics. While there has been a considerable body of work undertaken on assessing the writing abilities of language learners, the issues surrounding the assessment of learners' speaking abilities are still emerging. This book combines theoretical insights into speaking ability, reference to key research findings and practical advice on how to design and develop suitable assessment tasks.
Grammar in Practice 3
40 units of quick exercises with regular test sections for beginner to intermediate students. Grammar in Practice provides grammar practice in a simple and accessible format. Each book has 40 units of quick grammar exercises with regular test sections to encourage learners to revise what they have learnt. The books are small and easy to carry so learners can choose when and where they want to study. This book is suitable for students at Level 3/Pre-Intermediate.
Pronunciation Practice Activities
Activities on topics ranging from sounds, syllables, stress and rhythm to voice quality and testing pronunciation with an accompanying audio CD.
Writing Extra
Students are led step-by-step to a definite written outcome through a range of motivating activities such as role plays, discussions, games and text analysis. Each activity provides a meaningful context for real-world writing tasks such as writing e-mails, reports, letters, CVs and diaries. The book encourages students to look at the process of writing, thus developing their awareness of structure, content and their target audience.
European Language Testing in a Global Context
The ALTE conference, Euopean Language Testing in a Global Context, was held in Barcelona in 2001 in support of the European Year of Languages. The conference papers presented in ths volume represent a small subset of the many excellent presentations made at that event. They have been selected to provide a flavour of the issues that the conference addressed.
Speaking Extra
This lively resource book encourages students to expand their speaking skills using role play, problem solving, puzzles, games, interviews, storytelling and discussion. Many of the speaking activities are supported by the accompanying audio CD and the recording script section at the back of the resource book.
Games for Vocabulary Practice
A selection of more than 50 vocabulary games and activities for classroom use. A selection of more than 50 vocabulary games and activities for classroom use, based on 18 topic-based units. This book enables students to practise key vocabulary in an enjoyable way through a range of fun games and activities.
Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom
Working, learning and living in groups is a central feature of human behaviour and the study of groups - called group dynamics - is a vibrant academic field. It overlaps such diverse areas as psychology, sociology, business studies and political science. It is also highly relevant to language education because the success of classroom learning is very much dependent on how students relate to each other, what the classroom climate is like, what roles the teacher and the learners play and, more generally, how well students can cooperate and communicate with each other. This innovative book addresses these issues and offers practical advice on how to manage language learner groups in such a way that they develop into cohesive and productive teams. Educators interested in communicative language teaching will particularly welcome this book as a useful guide in their day-to-day teaching practice.
Building Vocabulary Skills- 3/e
Introduces 300 essential words and word parts that are needed for general reading comprehension in high school and college.
Tactics For Listening
Tactics For Listening is a comprehensive, three-level listening series that features high-interest topics to engage and motivate students.
Tactics For Listening
Tactics For Listening is a comprehensive, three-level listening series that features high-interest topics to engage and motivate students.
Primary Grammar Box
Over 50 games and activities including puzzles, games, crosswords and other task-based activities. Packed with more than 50 games and activities to make learning grammar fun for children. The book includes puzzles, games, crosswords and other task-based activities.
Literacy Plus
Written for adult beginning learners, Literacy Plus, by Joan Saslow, offers instruction in survival English and basic literacy at the same time. Literacy Plus A is for students who are pre-literate in their own language and know no English. Literacy Plus B is designed to follow Literacy Plus A, or for students who are literate in their own language but not in English. This comprehensive standards-based course helps students make daily progress on the path to literacy and oral communication. (Series Advisor: Edwina Hoffman)
Literacy Plus
Written for adult beginning learners, Literacy Plus, by Joan Saslow, offers instruction in survival English and basic literacy at the same time. Literacy Plus A is for students who are pre-literate in their own language and know no English. Literacy Plus B is designed to follow Literacy Plus A, or for students who are literate in their own language but not in English. This comprehensive standards-based course helps students make daily progress on the path to literacy and oral communication. (Series Advisor: Edwina Hoffman)
Grammar in Practice 2
40 units of quick exercises with regular test sections for beginner to intermediate students. Grammar in Practice provides grammar practice in a simple and accessible format. Each book has 40 units of quick grammar exercises with regular test sections to encourage learners to revise what they have learnt. The books are small and easy to carry so learners can choose when and where they want to study. This book is suitable for students at Level 2/Elementary.
Insight into IELTS 2/e
Insight into IELTS prepares candidates for the International English Language Testing System. The book is arranged by paper, so that teachers, or students working alone, can choose exactly which part of the exam they want to focus on.Insight into IELTS offers comprehensive preparation for the IELTS examination, developing skills, language and familiarity with the test format for each paper progressively.
Business Basics
Business Basics is a complete first course in English for business, with thorough coverage of basic grammar and skills. While the language level is low, the material is relevant to the business world, and real companies and business personalities are featured.
Games for Grammar Practice
A resource book of grammar games and interactive activities. Games for Grammar Practice is a teacher's resource book containing a selection of more than forty games and activities for grammar practice. The activities are designed to promote intensive and interactive practice with learners of all ages from elementary to advanced level. Photocopiable pages and step-by-step instructions provide instant supplementary activities for busy teachers. The emphasis on peer interaction and cooperation helps students find grammar practice meaningful and rewarding. The grammar areas covered in the book are all commonly found in courses, making the activities easy to slot into a lesson.
Experimenting With Uncertainty
This Festschrift brings together 28 invited papers surveying the state of the art in language testing. The papers, by key figures in the field of language testing, cover issues ranging from test construct definition to the design and applications of language tests, including their importance as a means of exploring larger issues in language teaching, language learning and language policy. The volume locates work in language assessment in a context of social, political and ethical issues at a time when testing is increasingly expected to be publicly accountable. It is thus particularly appropriate as a tribute to Alan Davies, whose work in this field since the 1960s has been marked by its conceptual strength and social responsiveness, seeking constantly to clarify and challenge current practice and new trends.
English in Today’s Research World
The authors of Academic Writing for Graduate Students have written a book for the next level of second language writing. English in Today's Research World offers students a very high level of writing instruction, with a specific focus on the projects students undertake--such as dissertations and conference abstracts--at the end of their university work or as they begin careers in research or academia.In addition to instruction on writing for publication, English in Today's Research World provides needed advice on applications, recommendations, and requests--types of communications that are particularly vulnerable to influences from national cultural expectations and conventions and that, therefore, place the NNS writer at increased disadvantage.The text is both a reference manual and a course book, so that researchers can continue to use the book after they have completed their formal education. New ESL/EFL teachers can use English in Today's Research World as a reference book for themselves or as a teaching aid in the classroom.
Issues in Computer-Adaptive Testing of Reading Proficiency
Language testers are increasingly directing their attention to the development of computer-adaptive testing (CAT) instruments for assessing learners' second language ability. Issues in Computer-Adaptive Testing of Reading Proficiency examines CAT instruments used to assess the receptive skills, with a strong focus on reading ability, as well as a critical discussion of CAT practices from the point of view of performance assessment. This volume is the first to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach and is written by leading scholars in their respective fields. The chapters are grouped into three major sections: second language reading constructs, second language CAT applications and considerations, and item response theory (IRT) measurement issues. To help the reader grasp the main points of these sections, discussion chapters are included after each one which summarize and examine the issues raised by the authors.
