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020 _a9780134400273 (Student book)
040 _cJCRC
100 _aCavage, Christina
245 _aUniversity Success : Oral Communication (Transition) /
_cChristina Cavage; Series Editors: Robyn Brinks Lockwood; Authentic Content Contributors: Ronnie Alan Hess and Victoria Solomon
246 3 0 _aUniversity Success Transition Level Oral Communication
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aHoboken, NJ :
_bPearson Education,
_c2017.
300 _axvii, 198 p. :
_bcol. ill. ;
_c23 cm.
440 _aUniversity Success
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _a"University Success is a three-strand developmental course designed for English language learners transitioning to mainstream academic environments. A targeted approach focuses on the unique linguistic needs of students while preparing them to achieve academic autonomy. With authentic academic content woven through all three strands and rigorous academic preparation, University Success equips students with tools to become confident and successful in a university setting.
505 _aUniversity Success Oral Communication builds essential skills that prepare students to understand and process lengthy academic lectures, defend their ideas, utilize the text to present concepts, speak thoughtfully in discussions, and contribute to group projects. Authentic lectures delivered by top professors from Stanford University provide students with real-life learning experiences.
505 _aFEATURES:
_tFlexible three-part developmental approach with authentic academic content woven through all three parts provides intensive oral communication and critical thinking skill development and expanded application.
_tParts 1 and 2 include short lectures and classroom discussions related to five academic disciplines: Sociology, Economics, Biology, Humanities, and Environmental Engineering. These lectures and discussions allow students to build their essential listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills.
_tPart 3 features authentic 20-30 minute lectures built around the same five academic disciplines. These lectures enable students to apply and expand the skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2.
505 _aIntegration of the Student Book and MyEnglishLab provides a blended approach for a flexible program that adjusts to the needs of students and teachers." (Book Cover)
505 _aCONTENTS
505 _aWelcome to University Success
505 _aKey Features of University Success
505 _aScope and Sequence
505 _aAcknowledgements
505 _aPART 1: Fundamental Oral Communication Skills
505 _aSOCIOLOGY: Active Participation
_tFundamental Skills: Be an active participant
_tSupporting Skills: Make requests for elaboration - Use turn-taking to encourage participation
_tIntegrated Skills: Take accurate, organized notes
_tLanguage Skills: Paraphrase key ideas
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational group presentation on origins, evolution, and achievements of a social change movement.
505 _aECONOMICS: Idea Development
_tFundamental Skills: Develop an idea
_tSupporting Skills: Consider what you know about a topic — Identify and present main ideas and supporting details
_tIntegrated Skills: Compare textbooks to lectures
_tLanguage Skills: Clarify
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver a persuasive group presentation on the business plan of an imaginary start-up company in an effort to gain start-up capital
505 _aBIOLOGY: Extended Discourse
_tFundamental Skills: Participate in extended discourse
_tSupporting Skills: Discuss and respond to controversial topics — Recognize and utilize digressions
_tIntegrated Skills: Lead discussions
_tLanguage Skills: Identify and use interrogatives and declaratives
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and have a class debate for and against vaccinating small children against known diseases
505 _aHUMANITIES: Speaking Styles
_tFundamental Skills: Recognize speaking styles
_tSupporting Skills: Identify emphatic argumentation — Identify succinct argumentation
_tIntegrated Skills: Identify and utilize markers for organizational structure
_tLanguage Skills: Create cohesion in presentations and discussions
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and have a panel discussion on modern educational trends and their similarity to or difference from ideals espoused by Socrates, Plato, Goethe and Nietzsche
505 _aENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Visuals
_tFundamental Skills: Use visuals
_tSupporting Skills: Connect visuals to a lecture — Read and interpret complex visuals
_tIntegrated Skills: Synthesize text into a visual
_tLanguage Skills: Create and communicate visuals
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational individual presentation on a "green" building and the systems and features that make it a model for green construction
505 _aPART 2 Critical Thinking Skills
505 _aSOCIOLOGY: Facts and Opinions
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Distinguish facts from opinions
_tSupporting Skills: Identify facts through verbal and non-verbal signposts — Identify opinions through verbal and non-verbal signposts
_tIntegrated Skills: Distinguish between facts and opinions in texts
_tLanguage Skills: Interpret and utilize hedging devices
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver a persuasive group presentation for an important change that needs to be made to a school or community
505 _aECONOMICS: Implications and Inferences
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Understand implications and inferences
_tSupporting Skills: Identify implied meaning — Determine a speaker's intent and degree of certainty
_tIntegrated Skills: Synthesize information from multiple sources
_tLanguage Skills: Understand implied conditions
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and have a class debate in favor of supply side-economics and demand-side economics
505 _aBIOLOGY: Process
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Understand and present processes
_tSupporting Skills: Identify structure and purpose of a process presentation — Analyze flow of a process presentation
_tIntegrated Skills: Explain a complex process
_tLanguage Skills: Use generalizations and specific information
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational individual presentation on the origins, symptoms, and treatment of an infectious disease.
505 _aHUMANITIES: Analogies
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Make analogies
_tSupporting Skills: Use metaphors and similes — Make assumptions
_tIntegrated Skills: Assess the quality of a conclusion
_tLanguage Skills: Use colloquial language
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational group presentation on the continuing influence in society of a classic work of literature.
505 _aENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Summarizing and Synthesizing
_tCritical Thinking Skills: Summarize and synthesize research
_tSupporting Skills: Select suitable research to support your ideas — Present well-integrated research
_tIntegrated Skills: Understand and present a research report
_tLanguage Skills: Source academic references
_tApply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational group presentation on the role that government regulations have played in health problems.
505 _aPART 3: Extended Lectures
505 _aSOCIOLOGY:
_tLecture: Five Revolutions
_tResearch/Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver an individual presentation on a grassroots social movement that has had an impact on society.
505 _aECONOMICS:
_tLecture: Supply and Demand
_tResearch/Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver a group presentation on the history of a lifesaving drug or service, and how its price might influence consumer and seller behavior.
505 _aBIOLOGY:
_tLecture: Are Viruses Alive?
_tResearch/Assignment: Research, prepare, and have a panel discussion on the potential benefits and repercussions of requiring genetic testing for fatal diseases.
505 _aHUMANITIES:
_tLecture: Love and Education
_tResearch/Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver an individual presentation on volunteer organizations and private foundations that promote a "love for the world."
505 _aENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING:
_tLecture: Air Filtration Systems for the Home
_tResearch/Assignment: Research, prepare, and have a class debate for and against the necessity of further federal regulation to protect consumers from false claims about health products.
505 _aCredits
505 _aIndex
650 _aOral Communication (Higher Education)
650 _aEnglish language
_xTextbooks for foreign speakers.
650 _aEnglish language
_xStudy and teaching
_vForeign speakers.
650 _aB2 - C1 (CEFR)
700 _aBrinks Lockwood, Robyn
700 _aHess, Ronnie Alan
700 _aSolomon, Victoria
856 _uhttps://www.pearson.com/english/catalogue/english-skills/university-success.html
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