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From Homer to Kafka to Marquez, this anthology introduces students to world literature and differing cultures while improving their academic skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Explorations in World Literature offers 32 classic and contemporary selections from around the world and presents a broad spectrum of literary styles and balanced racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives. With a variety of postreading activities, this text provides students with a solid introduction to some of the best of world literature.
Authentic world literature provides the source material for students to enhance their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. The Instructor's Manual makes teaching suggestions for the Student's Book. It also provides mini-lectures and background materials for each reading.
This volume offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date description of the wide array of second language programs currently available to undergraduate students in the United States and abroad. It brings together, for the first time, detailed descriptions of programs in foreign language, English as a second language (ESL), dual language (bilingual), American Sign Language, Native American, and heritage languages. Addressing both theory and practice, the volume presents the historical development, current practices, and future directions of each type of program, along with detailed case studies. For second language teachers, academic administrators, and teacher educators, this Handbook provides information that will be useful in making instructional and programmatic planning decisions.
The essays in this book focus on political strategies, pedagogical models, and community programs that enable adult ESL learners to become vital members of North American society. This is particularly important in our present time of contraction and downsizing in the education of non-native speakers. The authors represent a broad range of programs and perspectives, but they all have in common the goal of enabling both faculty and students to become full participants in our society and thereby to gain control over their futures. Readers of this book will develop an understanding of the ways in which innovative educators are creating strategies for maintaining language programs and services.
A Writerâ€(TM)s Workbook Fourth edition is a comprehensive academic writing skills book for advanced-level students that includes authentic readings and a study of grammar. A Writer's Workbook takes advanced-level writing students systematically from reading to writing. Along the way, students read high-interest texts; study the structure of academic essays; grapple with troublesome areas of grammar and writing mechanics; read and analyze student model essays; and write, revise, and edit.
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Kean College of New Jersey initiated a program for assessing learning outcomes in Fall 1985. This text deals with the practical issues involved in outcomes assessment within specific academic major programs. Topics include goal-setting, model selection, plan preparation, instrument development, data analysis, and program modification and improvement. Outcomes Assessment will serve as a practical guide to others just starting the processórecent legislation has mandated that outcomes assessment be undertaken by many institutions of higher education across the nation. Contents: Part OneóGetting Started in Outcomes Assessment; Part TwoóOutcomes Assessment in the Majors; Part ThreeóGeneral Education; Part FouróConclusions.