Inside Reading: The Academic Word List in Context, 4

by Kent Richmond

Develop reading skills and acquire the Academic Word List
-Explicit reading skills provide the foundation for effective, critical reading
-High-interest readings from academic content areas motivate students
-Corpus-based examples from the Oxford English Corpus teach real-life English

176 pages, Paperback

First published July 5, 2012

About the author

Until his retirement after 33 years of teaching in 2008, Kent Richmond taught composition, critical thinking, literature, and linguistics for the English Department and American Language Program at California State University, Long Beach. He is a specialist in adult second language acquisition and the role that vocabulary learning plays in that process. His textbook, Inside Reading 4 (2008,2012) from Oxford University Press, is part of a reading/vocabulary series that won David E. Eskey Award for Curricular Innovation from the California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Kent is the author/translator of the Enjoy Shakespeare series, so far completing verse translations of Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest and Macbeth. He is currently working on Othello.

A musician and singer, Kent is a member of the California Trio, a folk-based group that performs regularly in Southern California.

Kent is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

The magazine Inside CSULB featured Kent as the author of the month, in April 2008.

Reviews

[Farnaz · Rating 2 out of 5]

من این کتاب رو زیاد دوست نداشتم. اصلی‌ترین دلیلم اینه که به گسترش دانش عمومی زبان (حداقل برای من) کمک خاصی نکرد. اگر صرفا sample برای reading نیاز دارید، خب شاید به کارتون بیاد ولی در غیر این صورت توصیه‌ش نمی‌کنم.