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Clear Grammar 2, 2nd Edition

Keys to Grammar for English Language Learners

Keith S. Folse

University of Michigan Press, 2012

Clear Grammaris a four-level grammar series that features a unique combination of useful grammar information written in clear language with activities that promote more accurate and fluent vocabulary usage, writing, speaking, and reading.

Important features of all four new editions of Clear Grammarinclude:

  • More user-friendly charts to accompany grammar explanations
  • High-frequency, corpus-based vocabulary related to each grammar point
  • Grammar discovery tasks using students’ inductive learning skills
  • A greater variety and  increased number of activities, including more practice online
  • Many more activities at the longer discourse level
  • The addition of reading practice at the end of the unit, as well a critical-reading task
  • More writing practice, including one on editing student writing and another for original student writing
  • Two vocabulary practice activities, including a focus on collocations, in each unit, as well as many one-minute mini lessons showing the connection between grammar and vocabulary
  • More speaking practice, with activities  that require students to speak and listen to each other while using the target grammar

Support for teachers in the form of indicators that reference how to teach the grammar points in the Clear Grammar series from Keys to Teaching Grammar for English Language Learners by Keith S. Folse (978-0-472-03220-4).
 
 Clear Grammar 2offers students and teachers a solid introduction to low-intermediate grammar. 
Clear Grammar 2, 2nd Ed., includes

* Articles

* Past tense of irregular verbs 

* Present perfect tense 

* Adverbs of frequency 

* Nouns used as adjectives

* Object pronouns

* Past progressive tense

* One and Other

* Possessives
 *Comparatives and superlatives
 *Modals

The book's companion website includes the additional grammar/vocabulary activities that are referenced in the textbook.

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Clear Grammar 4, 2nd Edition

Keys to Advanced ESL Grammar

Keith S. Folse, Deborah Mitchell, Barbara Smith-Palinkas, and Donna Tortorella

University of Michigan Press, 2013

Clear Grammar 4 introduces advanced grammar. Clear Grammar 4, 2nd Ed., includes

  • Subject-verb agreement
  • Word forms
  • Past perfect tense
  • Conditionals
  • Adverb clauses
  • Noun clauses
  • Reduction of adjective and adverb clauses (including appositives)
  • Past modals
  • Review of verb tenses

Clear Grammar 4 concludes with a review of this volume’s contents of advanced grammar points.

Clear Grammar is a four-level grammar series that features a unique combination of useful grammar information written in clear language with activities that promote more accurate and fluent writing, speaking, reading, and vocabulary usage. Important features of the new editions of Clear Grammar include:

  1. More user-friendly charts to accompany grammar explanations
  2. High-frequency, corpus-informed vocabulary related to each grammar point
  3. Grammar discovery tasks using students’ inductive learning skills
  4. A greater variety and more activities, including practice online (www.press.umich.edu/esl/compsite/cleargrammar/)
  5. Many more activities at the longer discourse level
  6. The addition of reading practice at the end, plus a critical-reading task
  7. More writing practice, including one on editing student writing and another for original student writing
  8. Two vocabulary practice activities per unit, with one on collocations; plus many one-minute lessons showing the connection between grammar and vocabulary
  9. More speaking practice, with activities that require students to speak and listen to each other while using the target grammar
  10. Support for teachers in the form of indicators that reference how to teach the grammar points in the Clear Grammar series from Keys to Teaching Grammar for English Language Learners by Keith S. Folse (978-0-472-03220-4).

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Comprehending Technical Japanese

Edward E. Daub

University of Wisconsin Press, 1975

Used for self-study or in the classroom, this text shows the reader how to read and translate technical Japanese texts by providing graded readings, explanatory notes, and translation aids.
 

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Creating Contexts

Writing Introductions across Genres

Christine B. Feak & John M. Swales

University of Michigan Press, 2011

Research article introductions are central to Creating Contexts: Writing across Genres with the CaRS (creating a research space) model used as a starting point. This volume focuses on introductions for other kinds of texts that are also part of the graduate student writing experience such as course papers and critiques, proposals, and dissertations.

This volume represents a revision and expansion of the material on introductions that appeared in English in Today's Research World.

The material presented in this volume is appropriate for graduate students and others already working in their chosen academic fields. The material has, in fact, been used with each of these groups in both writing courses and writing workshops. We believe that the material would also be suitable for those wishing to pursue a course of self-study. To target these different possible uses, we have included a variety of topics and tasks that we hope will deepen users’ understanding of how to create a writing context for their work. Tasks range from evaluating text commentaries to open-ended questions and have been designed to generate lively classroom or workshop discussion as well as thoughtful consideration by an individual user.

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