LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purposes) Advanced, Listening and Speaking W/ My ELab

LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purposes) Advanced, Listening and Speaking W/ My ELab
Author: Ken Beatty
Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9782761352291

LEAP Advanced is a task-based international textbook for students preparing for college or university studies in English. It encourages students to apply critical-thinking skills as they engage in academic listening and speaking, or reading and writing, tasks across a range of disciplines.

LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purpose) Intermediate Listening and Speaking with MyEnglishLab

LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purpose) Intermediate Listening and Speaking with MyEnglishLab
Author: Beatty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9782761355636

LEAP: Listening and Speaking is now a three-level task-based series for students preparing for college or university studies in English. It encourages students to apply critical thinking skills as they engage in academic listening and speaking tasks across a range of disciplines. Featuring text-based vocabulary and skills practice and a variety of structured speaking assignments, LEAP: Listening and Speaking offers students the skills they need to excel in an academic world. Highlights Authentic listening texts and video clips feature a broad range of academic disciplines and genres to help students improve their listening skills. Focus on listening, speaking, grammar, and academic survival skills allows students to develop the competencies required to communicate effectively in an academic context. Final assignments at the end of each chapter offer in-depth speaking tasks that synthesize the chapter contents and help develop advanced critical thinking skills. Access to My Search Lab provides students with research and writing tools. Access to My eLab allows students to learn beyond the classroom. Access is free with the purchase of a new book. My eLab gives students extra practice opportunities with self-graded activities and tests that teachers can customize. A gradebook shows student's progress. Vocabulary review exercises. Additional comprehension exercises based on listening texts from the Student Book. New content related to themes in the Student Book (listening passage, comprehension, and vocabulary questions). My eLab Documents include: Vocabulary lists by chapter and master Academic Word List. Audio and video files for textbook listenings. A referencing guide. Teacher's Guide with answer keys and notes, audio and video scripts, alternative final assignments, and tests.

Leap

Leap
Author: Julia Williams
Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Academic writing
ISBN: 9782761341455

Learning English for Academic Purposes LEAP 2nd edition for English language learners preparing for study in Higher Education is now a two-book series focussing on key language skill development incorporating global issues material with academic content"

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139500937

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.

Clueless in Academe

Clueless in Academe
Author: Gerald Graff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0300132018

Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be. Left clueless in the academic world, many students view the life of the mind as a secret society for which only an elite few qualify. In a refreshing departure from standard diatribes against academia, Graff shows how academic unintelligibility is unwittingly reinforced not only by academic jargon and obscure writing, but by the disconnection of the curriculum and the failure to exploit the many connections between academia and popular culture. Finally, Graff offers a wealth of practical suggestions for making the culture of ideas and arguments more accessible to students, showing how students can enter the public debates that permeate their lives.

Leap 2

Leap 2
Author: Ken Beatty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9782761396639

LEAP 4 - Listening and Speaking Book + EText + Mylab

LEAP 4 - Listening and Speaking Book + EText + Mylab
Author: Ken Beatty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-10-31
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9782761385671

LEAP 4 - Listening and Speaking (CEFR Level C1) is a task-based textbook for students preparing for college or university studies in English. It encourages students to apply critical-thinking skills as they engage in academic listening and speaking tasks across a range of disciplines. Entirely authentic listening and speaking texts, including video lectures, prepare students for the college classroom, while thought-provoking content challenges them to reflect on contemporary global issues. Featuring text-based vocabulary and skills practice and a variety of structured speaking assignments, LEAP 4 - Listening and Speaking offers students the skills they need to thrive in the English academic world. Interesting and academic listening texts Three authentic listening texts per chapter (two audio excerpts and one video excerpt) from a variety of genres including debates, interviews, lectures, podcasts and speeches, mostly Canadian sources, prepare students for the lectures and presentations they will encounter in academic courses. Varied and challenging activities Focus on Listening sections provide opportunities to learn listening skills and strategies, accompanied by well-structured and challenging activities to help students improve their ability to deal with university-level lectures and presentations. Linear and guided speaking tasks Warm-Up and Final Assignments integrate a process approach, as well as a genre approach, to guide students in preparing various types of presentations. Focus on Speaking activities develop more specific speaking skills, which students reinvest in the assignments. Academic vocabulary development Key words and vocabulary from the Academic Word List are highlighted in two Vocabulary Build sections in every chapter, giving students ample opportunity to expand their vocabulary. My eLab includes: Vocabulary review exercises Additional focuses: skills practice based on material from the book New content in four sections related in theme to the four chapter pairs in the book a new listening text comprehension questions vocabulary questions Vocabulary lists by chapter and AWL master list Audio and video clips for textbook listenings

Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Author: Nancy W. Gleason
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811301948

This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ways in which different higher education institutions and education stakeholders are implementing adaptations, it looks at new programs and technological advances that are changing how and why we teach and learn. The book addresses trends in liberal arts integration of STEM innovations, the changing role of libraries in the digital age, global trends in youth mobility, and the development of lifelong learning programs. This is coupled with case study assessments of the various ways China, Singapore, South Africa and Costa Rica are preparing their populations for significant shifts in labour market demands – shifts that are already underway. Offering examples of new frameworks in which collaboration between government, industry, and higher education institutions can prevent lagging behind in this fast changing environment, this book is a key read for anyone wanting to understand how the world should respond to the radical technological shifts underway on the frontline of higher education.