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Supporting
Oral Language Development with Picture Dictionaries
Tara
Maceyak, K-6
Marketing Manager
Do your students come to class
with limited vocabulary? Have you seen how weak oral language skills
negatively impact literacy development? Here are two tools you can you use to develop oral language in your early childhood
classroom.
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Real Academic Preparation Must Include Online Work
John
Brezinsky, Higher
Education Marketing Manager
When
your students
go on to mainstream college courses, the vast majority of their classes
will have an online component. More and more of these will be Pearson MyLabs from
our sister publishers in Pearson Higher Education. NorthStar
with MyNorthStarLab will prepare your students for college
courses—in and out of the classroom.
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Selecting
Texts for the Adult ESL Classroom,
Part
3: Questions to Consider
Oliva Fernandez, Marketing
Director,
Adult and Higher Education
Last time we offered a
downloadable checklist to use as you evaluate textbooks. We also
provide a list of questions to keep in mind during
the text selection process. This month we look at three of these questions in more detail.
(Excerpted from a monograph by MaryAnn Florez.)
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9,000
Words: Are Your Students Ready?
John
Brezinsky, Higher
Education Marketing Manager
Students must understand 8,000 to 9,000 word families to read in
English. That's the conclusion given in a review of research which challenges teachers,
students, materials writers, and researchers to work together so every student can achieve this goal. This month's article
summarizes the review with concrete examples.
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"But Teacher, Some People Talk Like That"
John
Brezinsky, Higher
Education Marketing Manager
Students sometimes use
examples of informal conversation to defend their grammar choices in
academic writing. This doesn’t make conversation wrong, but students
need to know what is appropriate for different situations. Doug Biber
and Susan Conrad’s new textbook, Real Grammar, teaches students that different grammar is needed for different contexts.
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