Skill Set: Strategies for Reading and Writing in the Canadian Classroom - Softcover

Engkent, Lucia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199020132 ISBN 13: 9780199020133

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Skill Set is for postsecondary students who need to hone their English writing and reading skills in order to meet future academic demands. Students who get unsatisfactory results on an institution's English writing entrance test take non-credit classes that have been established to help these students transition into this new environment. The classes are a mix of international ESL students, Canadian ESL students, and native speakers.

Skill Set third edition is largely based on our highly successful Skill Set second edition with some notable improvements in organization and ease of use. Some new material has been added, and that includes new readings, mainly newspaper articles. Theme-based units cover a wide range of topics and themes; each unit is structured around the unit theme and has specific communicative goals. In Part One, Skill Development, each unit's theme is a specific writing skill. Grammar is dealt with as a necessary factor in effective communication, but is not emphasized. In Part Two, Reading Selections, each unit's topical theme ties the three reading selections (or "articles") within the unit together. A complete teacher's resource will be available online.

About this title

About the Author

Lucia Engkent is Instructor of Developmental English at Seneca College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199020132
• ISBN 13: 9780199020133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416