First Impact!

by Rod Ellis, Marc E. Helgesen, Charles Browne

Impact's user-friendly communicative techniques, including pair work and task-based listening, are effective in classrooms large and small.Features:
-- Cutting-edge methodology for pair work, communicative tasks, grammar awareness, and learning strategy development
-- Lively, realistic listening and task-based practice
-- Step-by-step, highly personalized conversation building helps students develop colloquial vocabulary, conversation patterns, and strategies for talking about various topics
-- Exciting and challenging activities lead to true communication

112 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 1998

About the author

Professor Rod Ellis is Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked in Zambia, the UK, Japan, and the U.S.A for extended periods. He has published a number of books on second language acquisition and teacher education. He has also published EFL/ESL textbooks. His main interest lies in the application of second language theory and research to language teaching.

He is co-author of Analysing Learner Language, and author of Second Language Acquisition, SLA Research and Language Teaching, The Study of Language Acquisition, which won the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition, Understanding Second Language Acquisition, which won the BAAL Book Prize, and Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, all published by Oxford University Press.