BUILDING ACADEMIC SKILLS AN ESL WORKBOOK

• Main Author: SCHWABE, G. T. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall 1987
• Subjects: English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers
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• Physical Description: 226 pages illustrations 28 cm
• ISBN: 0130858870

Here is a workbook specifically designed to give ESL students practice in improving a broad range of academic skills taking lecture and reading notes, studying, writing papers, and taking exams-skis needed to do well in any type of college program. The author begins each chapter with a lecture explaining concepts intrinsic to a selected academic skill and then provides repeated experience with this skill in a wide variety of exercise materials. Each chapter features practice in outlining, vocabulary expansion, reading for explicit information as wel as implications, plus generating both well-developed paragraphs and full essays. Students explore valuable study techniques and efficient work habits as related to different thinking styles. Leaming how to draw inferences and conclusions and apply this skill in understanding and evaluating writing is an unusual, but important, feature of this book. The full program uniquely integrates learning about good academic skills with practice in building them.