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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Building Academic Writing Skills
Lin Cui · Harper College
“Building Academic Writing Skills” provides carefully targeted and sequenced instructions in academic writing and editing for intermediate level English as a Second Language (ESL) students.
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High-Intermediate Academic Grammar for ESL Students
Rebecca Al Haider · Reedley College
This textbook was created for a high-intermediate academic grammar course for multilingual students. According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), this textbook is at the B2 level. By the end of the course, students will recognize and demonstrate the appropriate use of high-intermediate grammar structures.
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Getting to Know You - An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
In this ESL module you will learn how to interview a classmate and write a profile, or short biography. The module includes reading and vocabulary lessons, listening and speaking exercises, writing practice and grammar lessons.
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ESL 130: Low Intermediate ESL Writing
Heather Zettelmaier · Washtenaw Community College
This OER writing textbook covers writing sentences, summaries, opinions, and narratives, as well as improving spelling and grammar.
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Synthesis - Integrated Writing Skills for Advanced Students of ESOL
Timothy Krause · Portland Community College
This writing course for advanced students of ESOL offers an integrated approach to metacognition and critical thinking skills, research and source evaluation skills, standard composition and grammar skills, and academic vocabulary skills.
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Communication Beginnings - An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners
Della Jean Abrahams · Portland State University
This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities.
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Explorations 1: Grammar for the Experienced Beginner
Susan Caisse, Kristee Emens-Hesslink, & Jennifer Rueda · Clackamas Community College
Welcome to Explorations 1: Grammar for the Experienced Beginner. This English grammar textbook was designed for a class of Clackamas Community College (CCC) ESOL students who need only a review of the BE verb and are ready to learn the simple present and present progressive tenses.
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Spanish Through Literature and the Arts Indigenous Perspectives on Global Issues
María Datel · Boston University
This Spanish conversation and composition textbook explores indigenous cultures throughout Latin America from a decolonial standpoint which challenges the impacts of colonization and unlearns the legacies it has left behind. We will recognize that such cultures offer insights and alternatives to resolving modern-day crises – including climate change, food sovereignty, healthcare access, and gender inequalities – while refraining from romanticizing an idealized past.
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People and Places: An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
This module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level in college. It is recommended for the first few weeks of a semester, since it covers fundamental sentence grammar and basic email communication etiquette. Academic language skills you will practice include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical analysis.
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Transition with Purpose - Pathways from English Language to Academic Study
Michele Miller & Anne Greenhoe · Portland State University
Part one of this textbook is a guide for moving from ESL study to academic study at Portland State University*. It includes the resources students will use to understand policies and processes governing their degree study and their transition to academic coursework. Part two focuses on how academic skills are used across various disciplines and is comprised of activities and assignments designed to practice these skills. In seminars, students will use both sections simultaneously. *While much of
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Chinese Rhetoric and Writing
Andy Kirkpatrick & Zhichang Xu · Griffith & Monash Universities
This book provides teachers of writing, and in particular those involved in the teaching of English academic writing to Chinese students, an introduction to key stages in the development of Chinese rhetoric, a wide-ranging field with a history of several thousand years. Understanding this important rhetorical tradition provides a strong foundation for assessing and responding to the writing of this growing group of students.
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Spanish Grammar Manual
Enrique Yepes · Bowdoin College, Colegiatura Colombiana, & Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
This is a bilingual grammar manual for advanced students. It can be used for general review and reference in courses from second-year Spanish (B2) up.
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British Literature Through History
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the English language and literature.
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Introductory Chinese Grammar I
All Set Learning · LibreTexts
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ESL Grammar The Way You Like It
Don Bissonnette · South Seattle Community College
These books were created by Don Bissonnette for students and teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL). I taught ESL and EFL for 45 years and wanted to provide books and resource material for FREE to anyone who might want or need formal English. In these books, which were based on grammar, one can also find vocabulary, some pronunciation, punctuation, capitalization, and model paragraphs.
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Introductory Chinese Grammar II
All Set Learning · LibreTexts
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Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
Brendan Fong & David I. Spivak · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In the contents: 6.01: The ubiquity of network languages · 07: Logic of Behavior - Sheaves Toposes Languages
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Reading, Writing, Research, and Reasoning: An Advanced ESL Text
Gabriel Winer & Elizabeth Wadell · Berkeley City College & Laney College
In the contents: 4.02: Sample Student Research Essay- Heritage Languages