Discussion Starters: Speaking Fluency
Activities for Advanced ESL/EFL Students
by Keith S. S. Folse
One
of the greatest challenges facing ESL students is the advanced speaking class in
which the most confident students dominate the discussion and the more reticent
students quickly withdraw. Discussion Starters helps balance the oral
participation of all the students in the class, promoting an environment in
which everyone has not only the opportunity but a real need to speak out. Each
unit contains exercises that provide speaking interaction about a central topic
or idea. In most of these activities, students must work together in pairs or
small groups to reach a conclusion about a topic. The activities and tasks in
Discussion Starters are real situations from all over the world. Contemporary
political and social topics enable students to engage in lively dialogue about
issues they face in their daily lives, such as smoking regulation, the
environment, and multiculturalism. (From Publisher)
Personal Finance
Jack Kapoor, College of DuPage, Les
Dlabay, Lake Forest College and Robert J. Hughes, Dallas Community College
Personal
Finance provides comprehensive coverage of personal financial planning in the
areas of money management, career planning, taxes, consumer credit, housing and
other consumer decisions, legal protection, insurance, investments, retirement
planning, and estate planning. The goal of this text is to teach students the
fundamentals of financial planning so they can make informed choices related to
spending, saving, borrowing, and investing that lead to long-term financial
security. Personal Finance, 8/e provides many financial planning tools using a
step-by-step approach to help students identify and evaluate choices as well as
understand the consequences of decisions in terms of opportunity costs. (From
Publisher)
Peak Performance: Success in College
and Beyond
Sharon K. Ferrett
Peak
Performance covers study skills and professional development and is designed to
help students succeed in school and in life. It is the only text that connects
success in school with success on the job, and it does more with positive
attitude and motivation than any other text. It addresses both the academic
skills needed across the curriculum, as well as the broader skills needed to
succeed in college.
(From Publisher)
Book of the Month
What the Best College Teachers Do
by Ken Bain
For
more than 25 years, college faculty have questioned how to become more effective
teachers. Much of the support for their efforts to improve has come from centers
for teaching excellence such as those that Bain has directed at institutions
including Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, and New York
University. Drawing on interviews with more than 60 exemplary college teachers
from a number of disciplines and a variety of institutions, Bain identifies
personal characteristics, pedagogical practices, assessment techniques, and
other individual and institutional elements that can help anyone with a
commitment to teaching and learning to become a more effective college teacher.
In works such as Improving College Teaching and Learner-Centered Teaching,
Maryellen Weimer has addressed the popular "myth" that good teachers are "born,
not made." Like Weimer, Bain demonstrates that disciplined attention to relevant
research and to effective practice can help scholars in any field become better
teachers. Providing insight into how teachers can help students demonstrate
significant gains in learning in a variety of ways, this volume will be of
interest to any member of the college faculty. (From Library Journal)
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One
of the greatest challenges facing ESL students is the advanced speaking class in
which the most confident students dominate the discussion and the more reticent
students quickly withdraw. Discussion Starters helps balance the oral
participation of all the students in the class, promoting an environment in
which everyone has not only the opportunity but a real need to speak out. Each
unit contains exercises that provide speaking interaction about a central topic
or idea. In most of these activities, students must work together in pairs or
small groups to reach a conclusion about a topic. The activities and tasks in
Discussion Starters are real situations from all over the world. Contemporary
political and social topics enable students to engage in lively dialogue about
issues they face in their daily lives, such as smoking regulation, the
environment, and multiculturalism. (From Publisher)
For
more than 25 years, college faculty have questioned how to become more effective
teachers. Much of the support for their efforts to improve has come from centers
for teaching excellence such as those that Bain has directed at institutions
including Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, and New York
University. Drawing on interviews with more than 60 exemplary college teachers
from a number of disciplines and a variety of institutions, Bain identifies
personal characteristics, pedagogical practices, assessment techniques, and
other individual and institutional elements that can help anyone with a
commitment to teaching and learning to become a more effective college teacher.
In works such as Improving College Teaching and Learner-Centered Teaching,
Maryellen Weimer has addressed the popular "myth" that good teachers are "born,
not made." Like Weimer, Bain demonstrates that disciplined attention to relevant
research and to effective practice can help scholars in any field become better
teachers. Providing insight into how teachers can help students demonstrate
significant gains in learning in a variety of ways, this volume will be of
interest to any member of the college faculty. (From Library Journal)
