In this latest volume, Scott Cohen candidly shares his knowledge from more than 20 years of experience as a licensed landscape, swimming pool, and general contractor. Cohen has served as a construction defect expert witness for the California Contractor's State Licence Board (CSLB) for over a decade, inspecting hundreds of construction defect details of swimming pools, outdoor kitchens, ponds, water features, fire features, and more. The candid contractor offers his technical expertise as well as common sense advice to contractors and homeowners who plan to improve their yard.

"I put the development of new kinds of tests at the top of the list because of the importance of tests in shaping all that we do and think in the classroom. . . If we teach for communicative competence, we have to test for communicative competence." (Communicative Approach Expert, Sandra J. Savignon, 1976, p. 5). With this guide* and these Spanish texts**, proficiency testing can finally become a common practice in the classroom, which can have widespread effects on how we teach, namely, enabling more communicative language teaching. New approaches require new testing methods. This is the...

"I put the development of new kinds of tests at the top of the list because of the importance of tests in shaping all that we do and think in the classroom. . . If we teach for communicative competence, we have to test for communicative competence." (Communicative Approach Expert, Sandra J. Savignon, 1976, p. 5). With this guide*, proficiency testing can finally become a common practice in the classroom, which can have widespread effects on how we teach, namely, enabling more communicative language teaching. New approaches require new testing methods. This is the book teachers need (and long...