New Headway Academic Skills can be used with a general coursebook such as New Headway, or independently. The series focuses on improving students' academic skills by:
Developing the specific skills required for academic reading and writing through a wide range of topics relevant to higher education.
Exploring strategies to help students with new vocabulary, and to record, vary, and build their vocabulary.
Offering guidance in undertaking research, and in acknowledging sources.
Providing plenty of guided practice as well as freer practice to encourage learner independence.
New Headway Academic Skills can be used with a general coursebook such as New Headway, or independently. The series focuses on improving students' academic skills by: Developing the specific skills required for academic reading and writing through a wide range of topics relevant to higher education. Exploring strategies to help students with new vocabulary, and to record, vary, and build their vocabulary. Offering guidance in undertaking research, and in acknowledging sources. Providing plenty of guided practice as well as freer practice to encourage learner independence.
New Headway Academic Skills is designed to be used either alongside the world-renowned New Headway main course editions, or as a complement to any other general English course.
The New Headway Academic Skills series includes:
■ a wide range of topics relevant to students in higher education
■ development of the specific skills required for academic reading, including skimming, scanning, intensive reading, topic sentences, and prediction
■ guided as well as freer practice in writing skills, including such features as planning, coherence, cohesive devices, and checking written work
■ final writing tasks that reflect different academic text types
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