Skills

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  Advance in Academic Writing

  Advance in Academic Writing has been designed specifically to help students make a successful transition to college and university studies in which they are required to write assignments in academic English.
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  All About the USA, 2E

  All About the USA features informative and entertaining readings about American people, places, and events, and promotes discussion and cross-cultural exchange.
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  American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture, 4E

  As the cultural diversity of the United States continues to increase, the issues surrounding multiculturalism continue to be of great importance. With updates throughout and a fresh, new design, the Fourth Edition of American Ways retains its values-based perspective in examining what makes the U.S. unique — and how traditional values influence various aspects of American life such as religion, business, government, race relations, education, recreation, and family.
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  Basic Reading Power

  This four-level reading series focuses on a unique process methodology - encouraging students to develop a strategic approach and begin to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise. Students strengthen their comprehension skills, build vocabulary, increase reading speed, and are prepared for testing.
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  Contemporary Topics, 4e

  Now in a fourth edition, Contemporary Topics expands on its highly respected approach to developing academic listening and study skills.
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  Critical Reading: English for Academic Purposes

  Critical Reading provides a systematic introduction to the process of analyzing and evaluating a written text.
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  Engaging Writing

  To succeed in college classes, students need step-by-step instruction in the concepts and skills of academic writing. This series fully supports the needs of learners, using thematic lessons, ample modeling, academic vocabulary, and fully integrated instruction in the writing process.
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  English Pronunciation Made Simple, Third Edition

  With a friendly writing style and abundant illustrations, this pronunciation text helps students understand and practice English pronunciation and sounds, and includes separate sections on vowels, consonants, and stress, rhythm and intonation.
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  Essential Idioms in English

  This indispensable resource helps students understand the language patterns used by native speakers. Students learn more than 600 common English idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations.
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  Focus on Pronunciation, Third Edition

  Focus on Pronunciation gives beginning to high-beginning students the tools, tips, and techniques they need to speak clearly, accurately, and fluently. All aspects of pronunciation are included - consonants, vowels, stress, rhythm, and intonation.
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  Focus on Vocabulary

  The research-based Focus on Vocabulary series breaks down vocabulary acquisition tasks into achievable, short-term language acquisition goals. Excerpts from popular material give students hands-on preparation for understanding vocabulary as it is found social, academic, and workplace settings.
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  Focus on Writing

  Focus on Writing is an academic writing program that provides students with essential tools to master not only the key steps in the writing process, but also the grammatical structures, lexical knowledge, and rhetorical modes essential for academic writing.
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  From Reading to Writing

  Research shows that fully integrating reading and writing results in better student performance. From Reading to Writing makes explicit connections between these skills and helps students develop them simultaneously.
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  Grammar for Writing

  Grammar for Writing is a three-level series that provides students with the essential grammar applications they need to become proficient writers.
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  Great American Stories

  The popular Great American Stories series features adaptations of classic stories that progress in difficulty throughout each collection.
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  Issues Series

  This academic listening and speaking series uses original National Public Radio® broadcasts to provide a context for listening comprehension and discussion.
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  LEAP: Listening and Speaking (Learning English for Academic Purposes)

  This three-level program (Intermediate, High-Intermediate, and Advanced) delivers a flexible, discrete skills approach that uses high-interest international content to prepare students for the academic world.
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  LEAP: Reading and Writing (Learning English for Academic Purposes)

  LEAP: Reading and Writing is a four-level task-based series for students preparing for college or university studies in English.
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  Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn, Third Edition

  The Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn series prepares students for the rigors of academic classwork, helping them acquire the listening-comprehension and note-taking skills necessary for success. This series offers students valuable tips for getting the most from college lectures, including note-taking, organization of information, recognition of language cues, and acquisition of vocabulary.
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  Listening Power

  Using a variety of materials - from short conversations to longer lectures and clips from radio and TV - this listening series targets the listening skills that students need inside and outside the classroom.
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  Longman Academic Reading Series

  The Longman Academic Reading Series is a five-level series that prepares English language learners for academic work. High-interest readings cover a variety of subjects, including art history, nutrition, American literature, and forensics.
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  Longman Academic Writing Series

  The Longman Academic Writing Series helps develop student writing from basic composition of sentences and paragraphs to academic essays and research papers.
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  Maximize Your Reading

  Maximize Your Reading Workbooks provide students with instruction and practice in developing their academic reading, vocabulary, and study skills.
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  Maximize Your Writing

  Maximize Your Writing Workbooks provide students with instruction and practice in developing their academic writing skills.
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  MyEnglishLab Reading

  MyEnglishLab: Reading provides students with additional instruction and practice in developing their academic reading skills and strategies.
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  MyEnglishLab Writing

  MyEnglishLab: Writing provides students with additional instruction and practice in developing their academic writing skills.
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  NEW! Longman Academic Writing Series with Enhanced Digital Resources

  Now with Enhanced Digital Resources The Longman Academic Writing Series helps develop student writing from basic composition of sentences and paragraphs to academic essays and research papers. The new refreshed release of the series now comes with enhanced digital resources.
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  NorthStar Listening & Speaking

  NorthStar, Fifth Edition* is an integrated-skills English course that empowers adult and young adult English language learners to achieve their academic and personal goals. Engaging content, integrated skills, and critical thinking continue to be the touchstones of the series. Read more in our eCatalog Learn more at pearsoneltusa.com/northstar
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  NorthStar Reading & Writing Fifth Edition

  NorthStar, Fifth Edition* is an integrated-skills English course that empowers adult and young adult English language learners to achieve their academic and personal goals. Read more in our eCatalog Learn more at pearsoneltusa.com/northstar
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  Password, 3rd Edition

  Password helps students advance their reading skills and build a vocabulary of 2,000 high-frequency words and phrases.
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  Reading Power Series

  This four-level reading series focuses on a unique process methodology - encouraging students to develop a strategic approach and begin to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation exercise. Students strengthen their comprehension skills, build vocabulary, increase reading speed, and are prepared for testing.
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  Ready to Read

  This student-friendly, three-level series is designed to develop reading and vocabulary skills.