Notion by Notion: Beginning ESL Practice Book

by Linda Ferreira

Newbury House's Gateway to English, unlike a structured series, is a program of four ESL texts and three readers that can be used separately or together. This allows the teacher to choose according to class needs from a group of texts providing differing strategies to achieve common communicative competence, literacy, and cultural understanding. "Teaching ESL beginners is a frustrating experience. You can almost see the 'words' of choral drill piled one on top of the other, like blocks of concrete, separating you from the students and the students from each other. At best, you pray the day isn't far off when your students have 'enough' language to share their interests, feelings, opinions -- to communicate in the real sense of the word. Notion by Notion was written to bring that day closer, to take beginning patterns and give them expressive power, as students first share information about themselves, and then make choices. Knowing how to say something should go hand in hand with doing something with the language. Notion by Notion gives the adult student the chance to do just that. And from the first day of class." Linda Ferreira.

86 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1981