Many law students feel that they are learning a new language during their first year of law school. For those students who are not native English speakers this process can be even more overwhelming. Strategies for Legal Case Reading and Vocabulary Development was written for just these students. The goal of the text is to help students develop the case reading and vocabulary strategies they will need to compete and succeed in an American law school. Strategies for Legal Case Reading and Vocabulary Development begins with an overview of the American legal system and relevant research and guidelines relating to case reading. The book is divided into sections on common law, statutory law, and constitutional law. Approximately twenty cases (some abridged) and eight readings are included in the text. Questions for Discussion follow each case to help students prepare to actively participate in class case discussions. Additional features include hypotheticals (often posed by law professors), vocabulary tasks, and short writing assignments.

Strategies for Legal Case Reading and Vocabulary Development (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Reinhart, Susan M.

Legal Education

University of Michigan Press/ELT

The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting.
Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups).
The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies. The book is packaged with a DVD that provides models for successful academic interactions.

Academic Interactions: Communicating on Campus (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Reference

Feak, Christine

Rohlck, Theresa N.

English as a Second Language

This version of the book matches 9780472033324 except it is not packaged with a DVD. All references to the DVD in the text have been replaced with "videos." Video access sold separately. (Email esladmin@umich.edu for access.) The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting.
Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups).
The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Giving Academic Presentations provides guidance on academic-style presentations for university students. A goal of the text is to make presenters aware that giving an effective academic presentation requires mastery of a broad range of skills. The presentation genres addressed in the book are: making introductions, describing and comparing objects, explaining a process, defining a concept, and giving a problem-solution speech. The Second Edition includes many new tasks and additional speeches; more attention to working with and using visuals; information about computer projection and using PowerPoint; and new sections on presenting biographical information, referring to handouts, and giving research presentations.

Giving Academic Presentations, Second Edition (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Pyramids: Structurally Based Tasks for Esl Learners (Esl Series/Teacher's Book)

Madden, Carolyn G.

Univ of Michigan Pr

Pyramids: Structurally Based Tasks for ESL Learners (Student Book)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

The University of Michigan Press

Speaking &amp; Social Interaction teaches learners to use English as a tool for social interaction. This new edition not only teaches important aspects of social interaction but also provides a framework for conversational analysis and practice. This edition contains an updated format and illustrations, as well as new topics for discussion and improved activities. The text addresses such social situations as making acquaintances, telephoning, giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, getting and giving advice, making invitations, and offering and requesting help. Each of the ten units of the text guides students through a warm-up, dialogue for analysis, expressions for use, points to remember, as well as various activities, such as small group, community, and homework activities. Speaking &amp; Social Interaction can be used in the United States and abroad, as a main or supplementary text, and for students of all ages.

Speaking & Social Interaction: Second Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Fisher, Ira

Social Sciences

Testing Your Grammar provides the most comprehensive review of the grammatical structures of English and is excellent practice for students taking English language proficiency exams. Testing Your Grammar covers all of the major aspects of English grammar -- count and non-count nouns, agreements, verb tense, modals, comparisons, complex cause structures -- that ESL students need to manage in order to improve their English. With all units enlarged or significantly modified, the new and improved edition of Testing Your Grammar features reworked grammatical explanations and more example sentences so grammar points are easier to understand. Other features of the new edition: Explanations have been added to the answer key A review test is found at the end of every two units At the end of the book are four examinations that can be used for either pre-testing or post-testing

Testing Your Grammar, Revised Edition (Law, Meaning, And Violence)

Giving Academic Presentations provides guidance on academic-style presentations for ESL students and native speakers. One goal of this text is to make presenters aware that giving an effective presentation requires mastery of a broad range of skills. Students will learn how to choose an appropriate topic, create effective visuals, and design a speech opening. This textbook provides: *helpful analyses of speeches *examination of major speech types, accompanying organizational strategies, and related language use *tips for improving nonverbal behavior *suggestions for speaker-listener interaction *an analysis of ways to qualify claims and strategies for improving them *opportunities for evaluating one's work and the work of others.

Giving Academic Presentations (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

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Strategies for Legal Case Reading and Vocabulary Development (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Academic Interactions: Communicating on Campus (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Academic Interactions: Communicating on Campus (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Giving Academic Presentations, Second Edition (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)

Pyramids: Structurally Based Tasks for Esl Learners (Esl Series/Teacher's Book)

Pyramids: Structurally Based Tasks for ESL Learners (Student Book)

Speaking & Social Interaction: Second Edition

Testing Your Grammar, Revised Edition (Law, Meaning, And Violence)

Giving Academic Presentations (Michigan Series In English For Academic & Professional Purposes)