English Language Academy: Books & eBooks

A developmental skills text for beginning students of English as a second or foreign language. Uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methodologies to promote the development of all language skills.

Text for college reading.

Helps equip students with the skills they need to handle the diverse reading demands of college courses and guide them in becoming active learners and critical thinkers. Designed for use in the first level reading course.

Preparing for TOEFL Do you plan to take TOEFL or IELTS but are not ready for the challenge? Do you need more practice? If you do, then this book is for you. It is also for those who just want to practice their academic English. Whatever your purpose, this book will give you the foundation in academic English you need for TOEFL and IELTS success.

Learn essential TOEFL iBT scoring strategies developed in American university classrooms and proven successful on the TOEFL iBT. Learn how to maximize scoring by rhetorically analyzing all reading, listening, speaking and writing tasks. Learn how the TOEFL iBT recycles opinion-based and fact-based arguments for testing purposes in all four test sections. Learn how to apply the strategy called argument mapping to all TOEFL tasks for maximum scoring.

Each unit is systematically broken down to make it simple for any student to Top the TOEFL. First, "Simple Steps" are condensed at the outset for easy reference. Next begins "Elaboration with Examples" — a section where the "Simple Steps" are put into practice. The unit concludes with the "TOEFL Trainer" which divides exercises according to the "Simple Steps", allowing students a chance to directly put the strategies to practice rather than just throwing students into the deep end by providing a full set of TOEFL practice tests.