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Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series (Series Editors: Frances Boyd and Carol Numrich), now in its Second Edition, offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.Revision Features New and updated high-interest topics motivate students to express their own points of view. Expanded vocabulary and pronunciation practice ensure greater language proficiency. A grammar correlation chart links NorthStar, Second Edition, to two leading grammar series: Focus on Grammar and the Azar Grammar series. The fully integrated approach includes a teacher's manual with achievement tests, process writing activity books, audio recordings of the main reading and listening sections, a new video program, and a Companion Website (with vocabulary worksheets, video worksheets, Internet activities, and other resources).
How can intermediate English learners effectively integrate listening and speaking skills through high-interest content and critical thinking exercises? Helen S. Solorzano and Jennifer P. L. Schmidt provide a structured pedagogical framework designed to elevate language proficiency by connecting academic content with personal expression. The text utilizes a dual-strand approach, ensuring that students engage with material that is both intellectually stimulating and linguistically challenging. By correlating grammar instruction with established series, the authors create a cohesive learning environment for students at the intermediate level.
What You Will Find
Educators frequently identify this series as a foundational resource for structured English language acquisition. Experts note the academic density of the curriculum, which balances communicative practice with rigorous skill-building exercises.
Page Count:
228
Publication Date:
2003-07-25
Publisher:
Pearson Education ESL
ISBN-10:
020175570X
ISBN-13:
9780201755701
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