Study Tasks in English Student's Book

by Mary Waters, Alan Waters

This course enables students from intermediate level upwards to develop the skills needed for English-medium study at post-secondary level. The main features of Study Tasks in English are: * A task-based approach. Whenever possible, students learn the skills they need through discovery and induction rather than telling. * Study skills and study competence. The course helps students to develop the underlying competence necessary for successful study - eg problem solving, thinking critically and creatively. * Awareness-building. Each unit ends with a self-assessment and application section, to help learners actively draw together the skills which they have focused on in the unit. * Study Practice in English. The Study Practice section provides four major study simulations to consolidate and give further practice through an integrated study cycle.

226 pages, Paperback

First published January 11, 1996

Reviews

[Datsun · Rating 1 out of 5]

Christ, you can almost hear the former ESL teachers in here.

Dry, monotonous, abstract and bloodless. As unpleasant as this book must be for students, I pity the people who have to teach this material even more.

Oh, wait, this is supposed to be a book review, not a confession about my own life.

Well, the hell with it. Nothing in this book seems to date after 1989. Coincidentally, the oldest student in my class was born in 1989. So whenever the curriculum tells me to use something from this book, I just claim I lost the damn thing and make up something with a topic the students can relate to. As opposed to "McLuhanism", the increasing importance of "Personal desktop computer word-processors", the ethics of euthanasia, or how to use the card catalog in the library.