Insights 2: Content-based Approach to Academic Preparation - Softcover

Brinton, Donna; Frodesen, Jan; Holten, Christine; Jensen, Linda; Repath-Martos, Lyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201898578 ISBN 13: 9780201898576

Verlag: Pearson Education (US), 1999

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson Education (US)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0201898578
• ISBN 13: 9780201898576
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italien