Pearson English Interactive is a four-level online course for busy adults to improve all skills and become better communicators in conversational American English. Designed by professional linguists, this engaging, comprehensive video-based story-driven course includes friendly instructional support and thorough assessment, and meets the diverse needs of adult learners to raise their level of English, achieve their goals and gain confidence in business, work, teaching, travel, or anywhere English is spoken. Pearson English Interactive can be used on its own or in conjunction with a classroom course to provide students additional instructional hours, offering focused remediation in listening (top-down and bottom-up skills), speaking (role plays, using the video scenarios), pronunciation (using repetition of targeted expressions), and grammar (explaining all the key grammar points in the video lessons and giving extensive structured practice). - Updated videos have new scripts, scenes, cast, and look. - Integrated closed captioning at point of use. - Includes New CASAS Listening and Reading practice tests. - Personalizes instruction to each student's needs - sends additional materials directly to students from within the system. - Saves time and reduces paperwork with automatic grading and tracking how students are improving at a glance. - Students' digital recordings and written work can be checked online, allowing more time for classroom interaction. - Integrated online placement test places students at the right level. - Allows for flexible management of teachers' contact hours. Great for Independent Students - Students can practice anytime, anywhere. - Automatic grading gives students their results immediately. - Online practice provides interaction outside of the classroom in common situations in English. - Mapped to the Global Scale of English.

Issued for use as a kit, consisting of 4 components, tracks articulation skills from preschool through primary and secondary school years and into young adulthood.

This second edition provides extensive activities to help college-bound students develop clear speech and appropriate intonation. -- Vowels, consonants, stress, and intonation -- Recognition and production activities -- Paired communicative practice -- Sounds in isolation, sentences, dialogues, and rhymes

Ready-to-go English Language Development tasks that focus on students "doing the doing" of talking, reading, listening, and responding. In recent years, the percentage of English Language Learners (ELLs) has increased in almost every state, so most teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching literacy to students acquiring English alongside English-speaking students. However, in many integrated learning situations, English Language Development (ELD) instruction is strikingly different than the teaching we provide students whose first language is English. The Big Book of Tasks for English Language Development helps teachers meet that challenge head-on! Bestselling author and esteemed education consultant Nancy Akhavan shows that teaching multilingual learners requires changing our instruction to focus on practices that have high impact for students as they acquire language. Yet it’s not about doing more— it’s about doing smarter. It’s about having high expectations for all students and providing scaffolds to support students at all levels of English language proficiency as they learn and grow more confident. All the ready-to-go activities in the book Center on active tasks where students do the thinking, talking, reading, and writing, with appropriate support Activate the domains of language — listening, speaking, reading, and writing — and recognize that these do not develop at the same rate Honor the continuum of language development and build on what students can do Provide teaching tools such as learning targets, suggestions for when to use a task, basic instructions and "teacher talk" for launching a task, and "Watch Fors and Work-Arounds" Focus on the linguistic assets multilingual learners bring to the classroom and provide opportunities to help them collaborate with peers With Nancy Akhavan’s signature straightforward, teacher-friendly style, this book offers an uplifting reminder that with the right teaching strategies, educators can support multilingual learners to achieve their full potential and thrive in their learning journeys.