Advanced Reading Power 4 - Softcover

Jeffries, Linda; Mikulecky, Beatrice S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133047172 ISBN 13: 9780133047172

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2014

Synopsis

The new Advanced Reading Power 4 offers a strategic, student-based approach to the teaching of reading that encourages users to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise. This edition retains the original four-part structure unique to the Reading Power series, focusing on Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building,Comprehension Skills and Reading Fluency.

 

New to the Second Edition:

• More self-directed vocabulary-building tasks embedded in exercises.
• Updated vocabulary-learning strategies based on current research.
• New content organized around current issues relating to the Western lifestyle (social, economic, public health, environmental), with an emphasis on academic text types.
• Enhanced focus on critical thinking and academic skills.
• Targeted vocabulary items selected from frequency word list based on the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English (including both general and academic English).
• Appendix with word list for student and teacher reference.

Reading Power’s unique methodology teaches students to view reading as a process. The series encourages students to develop a strategic approach to reading and to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise.

• Extensive Reading helps students build reading fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden vocabulary.
• Vocabulary Building includes numerous strategies for learning vocabulary, including using context clues, analyzing word parts, and noticing collocations.
• Comprehension Skills teaches scanning, making predictions and inferences, recognizing patterns of organization, identifying genre, skimming, and critical reading.
• Reading Fluency features high-interest, nonfiction selections that help students improve their reading rate and flexibility.
  

About this title

About the Author:

Bea Mikulecky holds a master's degree in TESOL and a doctorate in Applied Psycholinguistics from Boston University. In addition to teaching reading, writing, and ESL, she has worked as a teacher-trainer in the Harvard University Summer ESL Program, in the Simmons College MATESL Program, and in Moscow, Russia. Bea Mikulecky is the author of "A Short Course in Teaching Reading Skills" and co-author of the Reading Power series.

Linda Jeffries hold a master's degree in TESOL from Boston University. She has taught reading, writing, and ESL/EFL at Boston College, Boston University, in the Harvard University Summer ESL Program, and at the University of Opole, in Poland. She currently resides in Italy, where she has taught EFL and academic writing at the University of Bologna and the University of Modena. Linda JEffries is co-author of the Reading Power series.

Bea Mikulecky holds a master's degree in TESOL and a doctorate in Applied Psycholinguistics from Boston University. In addition to teaching reading, writing, and ESL, she has worked as a teacher-trainer in the Harvard University Summer ESL Program, in the Simmons College MATESL Program, and in Moscow, Russia. Bea Mikulecky is the author of "A Short Course in Teaching Reading Skills" and co-author of the Reading Power series.

Linda Jeffries hold a master's degree in TESOL from Boston University. She has taught reading, writing, and ESL/EFL at Boston College, Boston University, in the Harvard University Summer ESL Program, and at the University of Opole, in Poland. She currently resides in Italy, where she has taught EFL and academic writing at the University of Bologna and the University of Modena. Linda JEffries is co-author of the Reading Power series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0133047172
• ISBN 13: 9780133047172
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336