Academic interactions : communicating on campus / Christine B. Feak, Susan M. Reinhart, & Theresa N. Rohlck.
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TextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780472033423Subject(s): English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers | Communication, International -- Problems, exercises, etc | English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakersLOC classification: PE1128 | .F32 2009Summary: 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.
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| PE1128 .E17 2005f Oxford learner's grammar. | PE1128 .E27 2005 Oxford learner's grammar. | PE1128 .E545 2009 English in everyday life : | PE1128 .F32 2009 Academic interactions : communicating on campus / | PE1128 .F57 2012 Cambridge academic English : | PE1128 .F7947 2017 Focus on grammar 3 : an integrated skills approach / | PE1128 .H46 2019 Textual analysis for English language and literature for the IB diploma : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-203) and index.
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.