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English Programs
A listing and description of some of
the primary texts used in our programs
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on this page for more information about the book.
Core ESL Program Texts
For Period 1: Language Structure
"In order to learn the formal rules of a language, students
need to practice new structures in a variety of contexts to
help them internalize and master them. To this end, Focus
on Grammar provides an abundance of both controlled and communicative
exercises so that students can bridge the gap between knowing
grammatical structures and using them. The many communicative
activities in each unit enable students to personalize what
they have learned in order to talk to each other with ease
about hundreds of everyday issues.
Core ESL Program Texts
For Period 2: Oral Communication
Texts For
Period 3: Elective Workshops
Being updated
Texts For
Period 4: Integrated Skills Practice
TOEFL
The primary text used in the TOEFL program
is Longman's Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test.
"By far, the Longman Prep. Course for the TOEFL has proven
time and again to be effective. Many test-prep publications
are written in a manner that interferes with a learner's self-study
ambitions. Explanations of exercises, grammar points, and
skills are often more difficult for the learner to comprehend
than the content of the test itself. Longman's Prep Course
manages to circumvent this problem by identifying the fact
that students with various levels of ability will be accessing
their texts, and has made the instructions and explanations
as clear and intelligible as possible. Author Deborah Phillips
has identified (correctly, I believe) a limited number of
skills which students can focus on first to stabilize, then
to increase, their TOEFL scores."
Supplementary Material: In addition
to the primary text a number of other supplementary texts
and audio cd's and software programs, including a free TestDen
online test will be used. We spare nothing to ensure your
success.
TOEIC 
The Official TOEIC Test Preparation Guide is the most
important book to have for your TOEIC test preparation journey.
This guide, prepared by ETS, is the only one that can give
you practice with "real" TOEIC material. Test-preparation
guides prepared by other companies try to approximate ETS'
style, but they can never match the exact difficulty level
of an actual ETS test. In addition, for (amount), TOEIC Official
Test-Preparation Guide includes an ample number of practice
exercises: There are two mini-tests, two complete tests, and
practice questions for each of the seven sections. The authors
include explanations for all of the answers too, which is
always helpful. Working through all of this material should
give you a decent understanding of and preparation for the
TOEIC test.
Business English
With this book all four language skills are developed, with
a focus on communicative practice. Each unit begins by introducing
students to the core vocabulary relating to the theme of the
unit. This is then reinforced through listening and reading
texts drawn from authentic sources, information gap and discussion
activities, role-plays, mini case studies and creative writing
tasks.
A guided discovery approach to grammar leads students to a
clearer understanding of the forms and underlying concepts
of English. Each unit has a 'language study' section, linked
to a more detailed Grammar guide at the back of the book.
Regular business concept boxes introduce or revise key concepts
in business management, such as the terms of trade and financial
indexes. Quotations from business leaders provide the opportunity
for additional discussion.
Important Note: The ESH Business English
Program is offered in combination with the TOEIC course. Students
will therefore also use the primary text for the TOEIC course
- see above.
TESL
This book is a complete manual of teaching English as a foreign
or second language. It is complete because of its wide-range
coverage from general issues about teaching and learning English
(Chapter 1 and 2) up to specific problems that English teachers
frequently encounter (Chapter 13). Between these two extremes,
readers can find almost everything dealing with teaching and
learning English. Those who are interested in developing the
teaching of language components may refer to Chapter 5. A
brief review about sentence construction, part of speech,
noun types, verb forms are topic within this chapter. Not
intending to dichotomize weakness and strength, bad and good,
these topics indicate that the description of grammar used
in this book refers to the traditional view of grammar. Chapter
7 - 10 deal with teaching the four language skills. They are,
therefore, appropriate for those who want a practical, easy
to understand reference of teaching listening, speaking, reading,
and writing.
As a teaching manual, as the writer says in its introduction,
How to teach English is a practical book concentrating on
examples of teaching and teaching practice rather than on
detailed analysis of learning theory. Its practical characteristic
makes this book appropriate for novice teachers with even
limited comprehension.
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