New Directions is a thematically based, integrated skills reader designed to bridge the gap between ESL and college content courses. By providing reading and writing assignments representative of real college classes, New Directions challenges students to expand their horizons. Through extended, integrated reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities, students learn to generate hypotheses, argue, analyze critically, and distinguish between different types of writing and purposes for reading. Moreover, New Directions helps students develop such crucial skills as the ability to identify a writer's point of view and tone, interpret a writer's meaning inferentially as well as literally, and discriminate between opinion and fact. The text also teaches students to detect fallacies in reasoning, to reach conclusions and judgments based on supportable criteria, and to propose new ideas.
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New Directions is a thematically based, integrated skills reader that bridges the gap between ESL and college content courses. This innovative text provides reading and writing assignments representative of college classes. Students learn to generate hypotheses, argue, analyze critically, and distinguish between different types of writing and purposes for reading.
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Great for advanced EFL,
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This review is from: New Directions: An Integrated Approach to Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking (Paperback)
This is the second year I've used this book with my 10th grade advanced English as a foreign language students here in Mexico. It's a great book for generating classroom discussion, essay assignments, cultural awareness, and critical thinking. The authentic readings are rich with important academic vocabulary, and the paraphrase exercises really help students learn to put ideas in their own words. I highly recommend this book for advanced, mature students at the high school or university level.
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This book is very good to teach international students different types of writing. Besides, it is a great source for self-education. In this book there are different sections with various topics for reading which are preceded and followed by a good variety of activities. I would recommend this book for those who either want to teach his/her students writing skills or needs some self-practice in writing.
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I was so mad for what happening since the school has been started and I was waiting for my books, I ordered my books in expedited shipment but I didn't receive any thing yet. I wrote 2 times to know if there is any update on my order but the seller never reply, the deadline is past and I didn't receive anything from him.
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