Oxford Picture Dictionary Second Edition: Workplace Skills Builder Edition

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro, Marjorie Fuchs

ISBN 10: 0194740757 / ISBN 13: 9780194740753

Published by OUP Oxford 2014-07-24, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oxford Picture Dictionary Second Edition: Workplace Skills Builder Edition
• Publisher: OUP Oxford 2014-07-24
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0194740757
• ISBN 13: 9780194740753
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Workplace Skills Builder integrates the workplace topics from the best-selling Oxford Picture Dictionary with practice activities. A Focus on workplace vocabulary prepares learners for career success. Presentation + Practice provides learners with all the resources they need in one place.

About the Author

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein is an ESL teacher-trainer, consultant, and author living in Northridge, California. After starting to work with adult ESL, ESP, and VESL students in the 1980s, Jayme went on to teach the adult ESL methodology courses at UCLA Education Extension for many years. She is currently specializing in professional development for the adult division of Los Angeles Unified School District and is helping to develop mentor programs for CAL PRO (the adult education professional development program funded by the California Department of Education). As an ESL consultant, Jayme conducts teacher-training workshops on topics such as vocabulary development, focused listening, co-operative learning, and multi-level instruction across the US and Canada. The late Norma Shapiro was involved with second language teaching since 1982. She conducted many workshops on vocabulary development, communicative activities, and using visuals in the classroom. She instructed teachers on how to draw language concepts for the ESL classroom. As a training facilitator for the ESL Teacher Institute in California, and a language trainer of teachers for the Peace Corps and Chalk Talk Workshops, she travelled to many regions outside of the United States.