Insights 2: Content-Based Approach to Academic Preparation

Using a content-based approach, the Insights series helps students meet the demands of academic English. Authentic readings and university lectures across the curriculum, and stimulating discussion and writing topics, lead students to synthesize information and alternative points of view.

Insights: A Content-based Approach to Academic Preparation, by Donna Brinton, Linda Jensen, Lyn Repath-Martos, Jan Frodesen, and Christine Holten, helps pre-college and college-level ESL students develop the crucial academic skills they need to meet the demands of academic English. By exploring four high-interest academic content areas, students learn to synthesize information from a variety of sources and apply their knowledge in stimulating discussion and writing assignments.

Features

• Students work with a variety of authentic source materials, including selections from college texts, real college lectures, visual materials, and literary passages.
• An integrated skills approach weaves together reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities with context-related grammar and vocabulary exercises.
• Videos of real university lectures accustom students to typical North American lecture style and natural language.
• A wide variety of academic strategies includes listening for emphasis cues, finding the appropriate definition for a word, using examples with generalizations, and more.