Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners

Authors

Della Jean Abrahams, Portland State UniversityFollow

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Description

This textbook is designed for advanced beginning-intermediate English language learners in an academic English program. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary and reviews basic grammar points. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers, as well as links to additional listening resources on the web.

Audio files are also available online via PSU Mediaspace.

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DOI

10.15760/pdxopen-15

Publication Date

10-2017

Publisher

Portland State University Library

Subjects

English language -- Study and teaching as a second language, English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers

Rights

© 2018 Della Jean Abrahams

This open access textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Notes

Publication of this book was made possible by Portland State University Library PDXOpen Publishing Initiative Grant program.

Originally published in October 2017. This edition has been revised and published in 2019.

The following updates were made on 10/24/2019:

• Background and Rationale
• Vocabulary Glossary was added

Accessibility
Accessibility Remediation was completed April 2021. This open textbook now meets our accessibility standards as adapted from BCCampus' Accessibility Statement

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21529

Recommended Citation

Abrahams, Della Jean, "Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners" (2017). PDXOpen: Open Educational Resources. 18.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/18
10.15760/pdxopen-15