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Looking
for a K-5 ESL Program That Works? Read What Teachers Have to Say About
Longman
Cornerstone
Tara
Maceyak, K-6
Marketing Manager
With stimulus money becoming
available for school districts across the
country, educators are more conscious about spending funds and need
assurance that they are choosing quality programs. Longman
Cornerstone, for grades K-5, is a quality program making a
difference in the academic performance of English language learners.
Read about how Cornerstone
has helped one district in Colorado.
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Network or Online Software — Making the Right Decision
John
Brezinsky, Higher
Education Marketing Manager
You’ve decided to add a
technology component to your ESOL program — great! You need to choose
between online software and software that is installed on your school’s
computer network. Before you decide, you should consider the cost,
student and teacher access to the software, and the tools available to
your instructors.
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Selecting Texts for the Adult ESL Classroom
Oliva Fernandez, Marketing
Director,
Adult and Higher Education
Some teachers and programs welcome textbook selection. They see it as
an opportunity to revisit goals and objectives of instruction and reinvigorate teaching and learning with some new
tools. But for other programs and teachers, textbook selection can be
an onerous and time-consuming task, a time when budgets require
compromises, and a time when instructional perspectives and
methodologies clash. How can we make text selection more like the
former description and less like the latter?
(Excerpted from a monograph by MaryAnn Florez.)
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Why Use Video in Academic Listening and Speaking
John
Brezinsky, Higher
Education Marketing Manager
In mainstream college courses, students need to understand the
professor and their fellow students, and they have to be able to
participate and ask questions. Using video instead of audio prepares
students better and makes them more successful for three major reasons.
Read more and watch sample videos that accompany Contemporary Topics...
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Exercises
to Get Your Students Familiar with Dictionaries
Tania Saiz-Sousa, Marketing Manager
In
its most basic use, a dictionary shows students how to
spell a word, the
definition for a word, the part of speech, the pronunciation,
and correct usage. In addition, the vocabulary demands in the
classroom — to tackle both reading curriculum and writing
tasks — are
increasingly more challenging.
In order to make the most out of these resources students should become
familiar with their dictionary and use it on a regular basis.
Click
here to download exercises to help your students become
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