Career Paths English: Secretarial is a new educational resource for secretarial professionals who want to improve their English communication skills in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in the four key language components: reading, listening, speaking and writing. Career Paths English: Secretarial addresses topics including equipment, bookkeeping, business correspondence, communications and computers.
Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction. The chapters in this volume all attempt to advance this understanding, and do so within a viewpoint which assumes limited attentional capacities and accounts for second language speaking based on Levelt's model of first language speaking. Six empirical chapters present original studies. They explore the topics of task planning, familiarity of information in a task, task repetition, task characteristics, and the effects of using post-task transcription.
Cutting Edge 3d edition Intermediate (Teachers Resourse Disk)Cutting Edge is a multi-level general English course for adults and young adults. It combines rich international content, comprehensive grammar, and real-life functional language within a clear, easy-to-teach structure. Cutting Edge includes these additional key features: High-frequency, useful vocabulary. A special focus on phrases and language 'chunks' makes vocabulary easy to remember and easy to use. Regular, well-structured speaking tasks. A straightforward structure of task preparation, performance and outcome develops students' speaking skills
Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence.
