Texts for ESL 062
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Texts for ESL 062
Suggested Text(s) and/or Materials for ESL 062:
Text(s) may be chosen from the list of approved texts for this course. This list is outlined
below. Other texts may be chosen with permission of the ESL Faculty Coordinator and
other instructors.
Integrated Skills:
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North Star, 5 (Longman)
Grammar:
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Understanding and Using English Grammar, Betty Azar (Prentice Hall Regents)
(May be used in ESL 061- Coordinate with instructors on division of text)
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Focus on Grammar 5 – Integrated Skills Edition, Fuchs and Bonner (Longman)
(May be used in ESL 062- Coordinate with instructors on division of text)
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Grammar Dimensions, Book 4, Riggenback and Samuda (Heinle and Heinle)
Grammar Form and Function 3 (McGraw-Hill) (May be used in ESL 061. Be sure to
coordinate with instructors on division of texts)
Dictionary:
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Newbury House Dictionary of American English
American Heritage ESL Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin)
Reading:
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College Reading 4 (Heinle/Cengage)
American Perspectives (Longman)
For Your Information, Book 4 (Longman)
American Ways (Longman)
Making Connections: An Interactive Approach to Academic Reading,
Pakenham (Cambridge University Press)
Rethinking America, 1, 2, and 3, Sokolik (Heinle and Heinle)
Changes: Readings for ESL Writers, Withrow, Brookes, and Cummings (St.
Martin’s Press)
Reader’s Choice, Baudoin et al. (University of Michigan Press)
Materials to go with Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley -- by Margaret Moore
and available from her.
I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven (Dell)
The Slave Dancer, Fox (Dell)
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway (Scribner)
The Pearl, Steinbeck
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Writing:
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The Essentials of English: A Writer’s Handbook, Hogue (Longman)
Writing Academic English, Oshima and Hogue (Addison-Wesley Longman)
Supplemental Text(s) and/or Materials for ESL 062:
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Newspaper articles
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Books and tapes in the NSCC ESL Reading Collection in the library
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Computer software in the Loft Tutoring Center
Note: Some copies of these books may be available for examination in the ESL
cabinets in the Humanities Division. Otherwise, instructors can obtain examination
copies from the publishers. The easiest way to do this is to go to the publishers’
websites.
Updated: 5/10/06