While students read silently in class, Rick has time to focus on individual students and their particular reading challenges. He works on vocabulary, comprehension and reading speed, using a variety of methods to help his students improve.

This podcast from Saarland University offers challenging listening opportunities for upper intermediate to advanced learners and fascinating topics to do with the English language and culture. Published bi-weekly, with a growing archive of nearly 100 episodes, the podcast can be used in the context of traditional, e-learning, or blended learning courses as well as self-study approaches.

Language study can be divided into four parts: reading, speaking, listening, and writing. Where reasonable, we try to make use of and develop all four of these skills. Through practice, students can become well rounded and increasingly proficient at expressing themselves in English and more generally in their lives. In this book, we focus on critical thinking and clean writing.The last four chapters are a short introduction to philosophy, and they can be a significant leap in difficulty compared with prior chapters.

This book is designed as an English for Academic Purposes class for ESL high school students living in Japan, with a focus on critical thinking and writing. However, there's nothing specific about Japan in the book, and it could be used in other countries just as easily.

A good way to learn to do science in English is to do science in English. When students are doing things, they are engaged, and that is when learning occurs. This book has three parts: biology, physics, and earth science. I have tried to select topics that don't require any specific background knowledge. The pieces are independent. Take whatever looks best for you and forget about the rest.

This book was written for a tenth grade English for Academic Purposes class in Japan. However, there is nothing country-specific in the book. It could reasonably be used in a quarter or trimester.

"See, Think, Wonder" is a "Visible Thinking Routine" developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This activity invites students to "make their thinking visible" by responding to a selected poem.

This is a course for Dutch (Bachelor) students who need or want to pay some extra attention to their English language skills. In this course you will find four modules with theory and exercises on Listening, Grammar, Vocabulary and Writing. We will also give you links to useful websites. We strongly recommend that you do not try to do this course in as short a time as possible: learning skills takes time, so you will benefit optimally from the course if you spend weeks, rather than days on it.

Course description: Provides a sampling of Shakespeare’s contributions to the three primary genres of early modern theater with a focus on the later comedies, tragedies, histories, and non-dramatic poetry. Introduces the study of Shakespeare’s dramatic techniques, character development, historical and cultural setting, and language. Explores interpretations of Shakespeare’s works by contemporary filmmakers. Prerequisite: MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores. Prerequisite/concurrent: WR 121. Audit available.

This short fiction unit provides lectures regarding specific texts, discussion assignments, a short writing assignment, and resources for writing a character analysis essay. Unless otherwise noted on the individual pages, the materials in this resource are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

Short Description:
A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.

Word Count: 16769

ISBN: B005JJW848

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Skills for English Composition is in draft form, being prepared under an OER Grant from the Tennessee Board of Regents by a team of faculty from Volunteer State Community College.

This seminar will challenge you to think about ways in which the media taps into your mind for social and political reasons. In the social realm, the media appears to be your friend, linking you to friends (and even strangers) with like-minded interests. In politics, the media pushes and pulls you in different directions, trying to bend your beliefs or reinforce them by any means necessary. It’s important to know the strategies involved, as well as the dangers that come along with the media’s influence on our personal and political lives. In this seminar, you will learn about ways in which the media tries to persuade you with specific strategies (especially in political ads or commercial advertising). Later in the seminar, you’ll get a chance to use those strategies to “sell” a particular idea or product. Also, this seminar will show you some of the dangers in the media, enlightening you about your online identity and social capital.StandardsCC.1.2.9-10.DDetermine an author’s particular point of view and analyze how rhetoric advances the point of view.CC.1.2.9-10.HDelineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing the validity of reasoning and relevance of evidence.CC.1.2.9-10.FAnalyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts.

In Sounding Out activities, students take a regular word, such as sat, produce the letter-sound pattern "sssaaat," and blend to produce the word sat. This is a crucial development in learning to read, bringing together skills that students have spent many weeks working on and providing the first excitement of reading unaided. Being able to sound out regular words also provides students with a self-teaching capability: they can decode unaided words they do not yet recognize on sight.

This semester [Fall 2019], Kaden used his background in linguistics and knowledge of phonetics and phonology to make a student-accessible guide to pronunciation in Spanish. The guide explains differences between vowel and consonant pronunciation in English and Spanish, so students are able to train both their ears and their tongues!"

-Kaden Wood
Fall 2019

In this activity, students will play a game to review the conversation skills acquired this past semester. This activity will be a review of questions, introductions, and basic information. The goal is for students to be able to sign a response to the questions as fast as they can.

Students will better their fingerspelling skills by making a short story with their lab mates. In the main activity, students will play a game, while learning about physical descriptions and additional information about a person. 

These profiles contain text of state legislation about the teaching of the Holocaust, and Holocaust-explicit History/Social Studies and English/Language Arts state content standards. Also provided is contact information for state departments of education.

In a traditional English Language class of 90 minutes with 50 students , the percentage of time spent by students to speak is too less i-e hardly 45 seconds per student. It reflects very less rather NO practicing time left for students to polish their speaking skills and thus they are left fumbling for words and speak incorrect English.

This lesson will allow students to give advice and ask for advice as they brainstorm about different study tips for exams.

Quiz show style slides for Springfield Technical Community College's Communications and Editing 1 (OIT 110) course.

This OER textbook has been developed to support Developmental English courses at rural Arizona community colleges. It includes content to help students form coherent sentences, paragraphs, and essays. The content on essays relates to the 5-paragraph essay form. For content on dynamic essay forms, please see the OER textbook Relaying and Responding: A Guide to College Writing.