Linguistics Open Educational Resources
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2024-03-19T09:14:19Z21st Century Skills and the "4Cs" in the English Language Classroom
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21st Century Skills and the "4Cs" in the English Language Classroom
Halverson, Andy
For many language teachers around the world, the classrooms of today may look and feel very
different to those that we remember from our own childhood. In teacher training workshops and
professional development activities, you may have heard talk about 21st century skills and “new
literacies.” Many of us have realized that our students today need new sets of skills to prepare
them to be successful participants in the globalized society of the future. But for many busy
teachers, these new skills and concepts may be unclear or you may be struggling with how to
implement them in the actual classroom. In this text, we’ll be considering some of the
fundamental changes that are currently taking place in 21st century education by looking at the
4Cs, and, importantly, we’ll also consider how these changes can and should be impacting
English language teaching and learning around the globe.
5 pages
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZHandbook of Resources for English Camps 2017
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Handbook of Resources for English Camps 2017
Opp-Beckman, Leslie
The purpose of this handbook is to provide English language teachers of students ages 10-15
with support for their summer camps.
11 pages
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZBuilding English Language Skills for Scientific Writing
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Building English Language Skills for Scientific Writing
Halvorsen, Andy; Heitman, Char; Pashby, Patricia
The following four modules are designed to help you improve your scientific writing skills in
English. The modules cover a range of foundational skills such as sentence and paragraph
structure as well as offer broader information on academic style, conciseness, vocabulary
choices, quoting, paraphrasing, and providing accurate and complete citation information.
This material was developed in coordination with the Introduction to Scientific Writing MOOC
offered through the American English Institute at the University of Oregon during Winter 2017. If
you participated in this MOOC, you will recognize the materials as a collection of the lessons
and applied discussion activities conveniently bundled into one document. If you did not
participate in the MOOC, the modules can still be beneficial to you as an introduction to
fundamental knowledge about scientific and academic writing.
Throughout our modules, we have used excerpts of authentic scientific articles in many of the
examples. We think these authentic samples are important because they represent real
scientific writing. If you find the language in these examples challenging, please don’t worry.
They are included only to help you see real scientific writing in action, and you certainly don’t
need to understand every word. Instead, focus on understanding the concepts being introduced
rather than the meaning of the text itself.
Before you begin working with this booklet, you are encouraged to locate scientific articles from
your specific field to use as models. Then as you work through the materials, look through your
model articles to see how each language or writing point is approached in your particular field.
Note whether the concepts covered in the modules seem to be true in writing from your field as
well. Comparing the examples in the lessons and the writing in your field, what similarities and
differences can you find?
34 pages
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZTell Your Story in English: Reading and Writing Skills for Language Learners
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Tell Your Story in English: Reading and Writing Skills for Language Learners
Sheppard, Beth; Heitman, Char; Tasker, Thomas
In this packet you will find stories, vocabulary lessons, grammar lessons, and writing
assignments. We suggest that you work on one unit at a time. First, read the example stories. If
possible, talk about the stories with someone else who is doing this packet. What did you like in
the story? What was hard to understand? Then read the language lessons and do the practice
exercises (NOTE: An Answer Key for all practice exercises is at the end of the packet). If you
are confused, find someone who knows English and ask them about it. Finally, work on writing
your own story in English. The stories you read can be examples for your writing. You will learn
more if you write a story yourself!
This material was developed for a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) created by the
University of Oregon in 2016. It is designed for intermediate-level English language learners to
improve their reading and writing skills. Students can use the materials independently, or
teachers can use this packet in their classes.
We have included the stories we wrote for the MOOC, as well as some excellent stories written
by MOOC participants. The grammar lessons focus on the use of past tense forms and correct
sentence structure. The vocabulary lessons focus on skills and important words for storytelling.
The writing lessons help language learners through the steps of creating a story in English. We
hope you will enjoy telling your story in English.
78 pages
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z