KAPLAN SUCCESS WITH WORDS FOR THE TOEFL: THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY GUIDE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS (Success With Words, Vocabulary Guides for Students and Professionals) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1998 | Series: Success With Words, Vocabulary Guides for Students and Professionals

Success with Words for the TOEFL is specifically designed to help you prepare for the TOEFL, with a thorough review of words that frequently appears on this important exam.

Featuring hundreds of key words and exercises designed to help you practice your growing vocabulary, Success with Words for the TOEFL is an essential tool to help you prepare for the TOEFL.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684854015
• ISBN-13: 978-0684854014
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 3.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,695,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lin LOUGHEED started his EFL career in 1968 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey. He earned his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University and has received two Fulbright awards: a scholar grant in Sri Lanka and a professor grant in Tunisia. In 1983, he founded Instructional Design International, Inc. to develop English teaching materials in all media. Lin is a past member of the TESOL Executive Board and has served as the chair of two special interest groups: Teaching English Internationally and Materials Writers. He has written over 40 English-as-a-foreign-language texts and has a daily radio show in China on business English.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars read the newspaper and a good novel instead, June 13, 2001

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Matthew Juge "Suppletion Matt" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KAPLAN SUCCESS WITH WORDS FOR THE TOEFL: THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY GUIDE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS (Success With Words, Vocabulary Guides for Students and Professionals) (Paperback)

this book is unlikely to meet students' and professionals' needs and expectations, maybe because it's trying to do two distinct things at once: prepare students for the TOEFL and help readers incorporate the words into their active vocabulary.

TOEFL prep is probably best served by drill, and this book offers a useful division of vocabulary into manageable chunks.

actually incorporating vocab into your daily speech, however, is quite a different task, and this book offers little in that direction. i find both the 'conversation' and 'short talk' components to each chapter to be quite stilted and unnatural sounding--the exact opposite of the kind of model the target audience actually needs. reading a newspaper and a good novel and then discussing them with others is more likely to produce lasting vocabulary growth.