Authors
Rosemary Scott
About Book
This series covers
the four skill areas of listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing at four
levels- elementary, intermediate, Upper-intermediate and advanced. Although we
have decided to retain the traditional division of language use into the 'four
skills', the skills are not treated in total isolation. In any given book the
skill being dealt with serves as the focus of attention and is always interwoven
with and supported by other skills. This enables teachers to concentrate on
skills development without losing touch with the more complex reality of language
use. Our authors have had in common the following principles, that Materials would-be:
- creative- both through author-creativity leading to interesting materials, and through their capacity to provoke creative' responses from students;
- Interesting- both for their cognitive and affective content, and for the activities required of the learners.
- Fluency-focused – bringing in accuracy work only in so far as it is Necessary to the completion of an activity.
- Task-based- rather than engaging in closed exercise activities, to Use tasks with pay-offs for the learners.
- problem-solving focused- so as to engage students in cognitive effort and thus provoke meaning full interaction;
- humanistic- in the sense that the materials speak to and interrelate with the learners as real people and engage them in interaction grounded in their own experience;
- Learning-centered- by ensuring that the materials promote learning and help students to develop their own strategies for learning. This is in opposition to the view that a pre-determined contents taught and identically internalized by all students. In our materials we do not expect input to equal intake
By ensuring continuing consultation between and among authors at Different
levels, and by piloting the materials, the levels have been Established one
pragmatic basis. The fact that he authors, between them, share a wide and
varied body of experience has made this possible without losing sight of the
need to pitch materials and tasks at an attainable level while still allowing
for the spice of challenge. There are three main ways in which these materials can
be used:
- As a supplements to a core course book;
- as self-learning material .Most of the books can be use do an Individual basis with a minimum of teacher guidance, though the Interactive element is thereby lost.
- As modular course material. A teacher might, for instance, combine Intermediate Listening and Speaking books with upper intermediate Reading and elementary Writing with a class which had a good passive knowledge of English but which needed a basic Grounding in writing skills.
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