University Success Reading Advanced, Student Book with Myenglishlab

ISBN-13: 9780134652702 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 2018 / 432 str.

JR. Fre Pearson

Opis

University Success Reading is designed for English language learners preparing for mainstream academicenvironments. A flexible three-part approach includes intensive and systematic skill development tiedto learning outcomes along with authentic essays written by top professors from Stanford University.The Reading strand provides real-life learning experiences that prepare students to become fluent,automatic, and competent readers who can achieve academic autonomy.

University Success is an outcome-oriented program that is informed by the Global Scale of English and

grounded in the context relevant to students academic ambitions. Authentic content is woven through

reading, writing and oral communication strands. The course level by level carefully scaffolds skill

development to help students become autonomous learners, thereby closing the skills gap.

 

University Success provides a framework that simulates a real academic experience with authentic essays and lectures expertly created by top professors from Stanford University. Real academic content provides students with the same challenges native speakers face in a university setting, preparing them to handle the rigors of academic work.

 

University Success is the first-ever English language course that fuses intensive and rigorous skill

development and expanded application, at the same time meeting the unique academic, social, and

linguistic needs of English language learners. University Success offers a high degree of rigor

with challenging academic content and unadapted readings and lectures, at the same time offering careful scaffolding with systematic skill development. With University Success, students build skills to process high volumes of content, close their skills gap, and become autonomous learners.

Spis treści

• Part 1: Fundamental reading skills
• Linguistics: Active reading
• Business ethics: Main ideas and supporting details
• Earth science: Organizational structures
• Medieval culture: Reading fluency
• Materials engineering: Research articles
• Part 2: Critical thinking skills
• Linguistics: Facts and Opinions
• Business ethics: Implications and inference
• Earth science: Cause, effect and correlation
• Medieval culture: Author's purpose and tone
• Materials engineering: Visuals
• Part 3: Extended reading
• Linguistics: Accent and affect
• Business ethics: Sustaining values
• Earth science: Climate and environmentalism
• Medieval culture: Medieval feasting
• Materials engineering: Polymers: Regenerative medicine
• Index