Breakthrough


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Breakthrough is a three-part course for upper secondary school students young adults and others who have had two or more years of study of English but who lack basic functional communication skills. The course assumes learners have previously studies English with a primary focus on grammar but lack the ability to express themselves or to understand spoken English.




Breakthrough Plus


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A communication-focussed course in American English. This flexible course builds confidence through an emphasis on speaking and listening skills, and enhances learning through the innovative and interactive digibook. The Teacher's Resource Book Pack contains teacher's notes, a test generator CD-ROM and a webcode for the Digibook.




Forum


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A journal for the teacher of english outside the United States.




RELC Journal


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Breakthrough Plus, Level 2


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Breakthrough Plus is a communication-focussed course in American English for young adult and adult learners of English. This flexible course builds confidence through an emphasis on speaking and listening skills, and enhances learning through the innovative and interactive digibook.




Language Teachers at Work


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This book examines a ubiquitous, yet under-researched, area of language education, i.e., language teachers' use of curriculum materials. It particularly focuses on EFL teachers' use of prescribed curriculum materials in higher education in Mainland China and presents a qualitative, multi-case study involving four Chinese EFL teachersand eight students (two students from each teacher’s class) at one university in Mainland China. Drawing on data from pre-lesson and post-lesson interviews with the teachers, lesson observations, and documents in three consecutive semesters at the target university, the book delineates the processes of materials useinclassroom settings. It also identifies four domains of factors that influenced the enactment of curriculum materials. Most importantly, by adopting Vygotsky’s (1978) mediation theory and Remillard’s (2005) participatory perspective, the book constructs a "curriculum enactment mediation model" to reveal the complex and mediated relations among teachers, learners, curriculum materials, and context. It also recommends practical implications for materials developers, teacher educators, administrators, and policymakers.







TPACK


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"This book is an authoritative resource for the latest research on the integration of technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge in the contexts of primary to higher education. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as pedagogical strategies, blended learning, and technology integration"--




Research in Education


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Grammar


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Includes a sequence of tasks designed to help teachers apply to their own classroom practice the information in the text.