21st Century Communication, Second Edition, a four-level series, presents big ideas from TED and National Geographic Explorers to engage students in English. Each unit explores one idea from different angles to prompt students to think critically and express their own opinions, while teaching the skills needed to communicate with confidence. Through inspiring models of effective communication, students develop essential listening and speaking skills to achieve academic success for the 21st century.

21st Century Communication is a four-level series that uses powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach learners to think critically and communicate effectively. Through authentic models of effective communication, students build fluency in the listening and speaking skills needed to achieve academic and personal success.

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making Connections Second edition Level 2 Student's Book introduces fundamental reading skills and strategies such as identifying main ideas, interpreting information in charts and graphs, and preparing for reading tests. It features a variety of high-interest topics including news media, education, global business, population growth, fashion and design, and the brain. Each student's book contains a single-use code for access to audio files of the readings in the CLMS.

"Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition" is an interdisciplinary and timely edited book of essays and empirical studies, most of which are based on the papers presented at the Form and Meaning Conference held in Chicago in 2002. The goal of the conference and now of the book is to present linguistic and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition, attempting to integrate external and internal issues in interlanguage development, while outlining directions for future research. The editors address questions, such as: What is the nature and sequence of the form-meaning mapping process? How are these connections made? How are these connections used to construct grammars and lexicons? And, how can conditions and external factors be manipulated to improve the chances of making these form-meaning connections?
Contributors to this volume include such second language acquisition scholars as Susan Gass, Nick Ellis, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Catherine Doughty, and Diane Larsen-Freeman. They address these form-meaning issues from a variety of settings and from multiple perspectives.
Researchers and graduate students in applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and language pedagogy will find this volume to be an important resource.

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making Connections Second edition Level 3 Student's Book develops key reading skills and strategies such as recognizing patterns of textual organization, understanding how writers create connections within and across sentences, and learning how to process academic language and vocabulary. It features high-interest topics, including health, immigration, language learning, and the environment. Each student's book contains a single-use code for access to audio files of the readings in the CLMS.

21st Century Reading was created through a partnership between TED, a nonprofit dedicated to spreading ideas through short, powerful talks and National Geographic Learning. 21st Century Reading provides the ideal forum for learners of English to make connections with topics ranging from science to business to global issues. Using TED Talks as the springboard to share ideas, this new four-level reading series shows learners how to understand and respond to ideas and content in English.

A four-level listening and speaking series that uses carefully selected, authentic models and powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach students to think critically and communicate effectively.

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making Connections Second edition Level 1 Student's Book introduces first-time readers of academic text to basic reading strategies such as finding paragraph topics, finding supporting details and learning to read quickly. It features a variety of high interest topics including national borders, names, food, sleep, natural disasters, and music. Each student's book contains a single-use code for access to audio files of the readings in the CLMS.

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Traditional language teaching typically results in limited foreign language proficiency. Communicative approaches tend to produce greater fluency, but less accuracy. A potential solution to this dilemma is focus on form. Focus on form respects students' "internal linguistic syllabus," drawing their attention to problematic linguistic features during communicative activities, and thus providing an alternative to methodologies that treat accuracy and fluency separately. This volume examines theoretical foundations, empirical research, and a range of possible pedagogical implementations of focus on form in classroom language teaching.

Imagination can create - or it can destroy. Sam Little, a wildly imaginative ten-year old boy, holds that power in his mind. In an effort to cope in the ordinary world, Sam makes one heartfelt wish to make his imagination real. He doesn't quite realize the seriousness of his wish until his once imaginary, but now quite real friend, Yetews, unexpectedly draws him into the hidden world of Imagia. Though he believes that he is merely on an adventure of his own creating, he begins to see that he's wrong. What begins as an exciting adventure quickly spirals into a waking nightmare. With the help of his Guardian and the friends he makes along the way, he discovers just how powerful imagination is and how dangerous it can be when used by the wrong mind. His unique ability will alter the course of his life and change the very world he's in. Once he finds that he's been brought into this world in the midst of dark and dangerous times, he's forced upon a decision that no child should be forced to make - return home, or become one of the lost children in Imagia forever.

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making Connections Second edition Level 2 Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key. Photocopiable unit tests contain additional thematic readings and assess how well students have learned the unit's reading skills and the unit's target vocabulary.

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making Connections Third edition Level 3 Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key. Photocopiable unit tests contain additional thematic readings and assess how well students have learned the unit's reading skills and the unit's target vocabulary.

A paired skills series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. Academic Encounters Level 2 Teacher's Manual Reading and Writing: American Studies contains general teaching guidelines for the course, tasks by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, and unit quizzes and quiz answers.

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making Connections Second edition Level 1 Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key. Photocopiable unit tests contain additional thematic readings and assess how well students have learned the unit's reading skills and the unit's target vocabulary.

The series helps students gain insight into how academic text is organized and how to read effectively. The Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions and an answer key for the Student's Book.