Exploring Options is designed to help student writers develop their knowledge and use of academic language to meet the demands of college- and university-level writing assignments. It draws on the research identifying lexical and grammatical patterns across academic contexts and provides authentic reading contexts for structured vocabulary learning. Recognizing that vocabulary choices in writing often require consideration of grammatical structure, Exploring Options focuses on specific kinds of lexico-grammatical decisions—that is, the ones involving the interaction between vocabulary and grammar--that students face in shaping, connecting, and restructuring their ideas. The book helps writers learn how to effectively use resources such as learner dictionaries, thesauruses, and concordancers to improve academic word knowledge. Following a unit on using resources for vocabulary development, the contents are divided into three parts: Showing Relationships within Sentences, Connecting and Focusing across Sentences, and Qualifying Statements and Reporting Research. Part 1 focuses on verbs and modifiers that express increases and decreases, verbs and abstract nouns that describe change, connectors and verbs describing causal relationships, and parallel structures. Part 2 explores the words that help connect ideas and add cohesion. Part 3 discusses how to express degrees of certainty and accuracy and the use of reporting verbs.

Exploring Options in Academic Writing: Effective Vocabulary and Grammar Use

Reference

Frodesen, Jan

Wald, Margi

English as a Second Language

University of Michigan Press/ELT

Engaging listening activities expand the target structure.

Grammar Dimens Plat Bk4 Audio

Eyring, Janet

Heinle ELT

Text/Audio Tape Package for GRAMMAR DIMENSIONS 4, PLATINUM EDITION.

Grammar Dimensions 4, Platinum Edition Text/Audio Tape Package

This four-level articulated series systematically addresses the form, meaning, and use of each structure and focuses ESL/EFL learnersU attention on the biggest challenges to communication to help them use English structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

Grammar Dimensions: Book 4: Form, Meaning, and Use

Celce-Murcia, Marianne

Larsen-Freeman, Diane

GRAMMAR DIMENSIONS, Book 4 is the fourth in a four-level series which systematically addresses the three dimensions of language - form, meaning, and use - ensuring that students not only learn to form grammatical structures, but also are able to use them meaningfully and appropriately.

Grammar Dimensions Book 4: Form, Meaning, and Use

Eyring, Jane

This four-level series systematically addresses the form, meaning and use of each structure. It focuses learners' attention on the greatest challenge for each structure to help them communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

Grammar Dimensions

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinle & Heinle Pub

This four-level series systematically addresses the form, meaning and use of each structure. It focuses learners' attention on the greatest challenge for each structure to help them communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

Grammar Dimensions: Form, Meaning, and Use

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

THE POWER OF CONTEXT IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING provides a highly accessible, in-depth study of the relationship between discourse and the context of language teaching and learning. A tribute to Marianne Celce-Murcia's groundbreaking and distinguished work, this text contains a strong combination of theory and practice that will benefit any language teacher or student.

The Power of Context in Language Teaching and Learning

Holten, Christine

Split Editions provide options for shorter courses.

Grammar Dimensions, Book 4A, Fourth Edition