english as a second language

A guide to Sandra Cisneros's novel "The House on Mango Street" designed for non-native English speakers, containing exercises, vocabulary reviews, discussion questios, and writing ideas; also includes suggestions for teachers.

Presents principles for teachers in ESL and EFL (English as a second or a foreign language) settings, covering such facets as contexts and orientations, learner-centered lessons, immediate meaning and purpose, social interaction, the four modes, first languages and cultures, and faith in the learner.

Offers beginning ESL students from middle school through adulthood an overview of the English language and activities, drills, and examples to help them build their listening, reading, and writing skills.

A practical guide for learning the English language designed for Spanish-speaking people who live and work in the United States.

Provides fifty strategies for teaching English as a secondlanguage with vocabulary and comprehension builders, communication games, and cooperative learning activities; and includes DVD.

Presents a guide to organizing small-group comprehension activities for English language learners.

Outlines the classroom conditions needed for successful writing instruction with English language learners and offers sixty-eight classroom-tested lessons for kindergarten through sixth grade that will help students at all levels of language acquisition make connections, ask questions, visualize, infer, determine importance, monitor meaning and comprehension, and use fix-up strategies.

Contains two adventures in which Tingo, a Muppet newly arrived in the U.S., learns English with the help of his teenage friend, focusing on words related to weather, seasons, and time, the letters "k" and "r," and the number twelve.

Contains two adventures in which Tingo, a Muppet newly arrived in the U.S., learns English with the help of his teenage friend, focusing on words related to toys, games, and sports, the letters "b" and "v," and the number twenty.

Contains two adventures in which Tingo, a Muppet newly arrived in the U.S., learns English with the help of his teenage friend, focusing on words related to toys, games, and sports, the verb "to like," letters "u" and "h," and the number nineteen.