Charting New Territory in ESL: Student Workbook

Charting New Territory in ESL - Student Workbook is a fun, logical, book for students. It's partnered with the Charting New Territory in ESL - What You Wish Your ESL Book Included, Teacher Guide. Teachers and students who have piloted this book have loved it. Students have routinely gotten above-average scores on state-mandated tests. Equally as importantly, our students LIKE this material. They have told us that they understand concepts more quickly and more clearly than ever before. Learning any new language can leave students, particularly adults, feeling overwhelmed. One of our core beliefs is that student trust aids learning. We have provided methods and techniques that are fun and help lower the anxiety so often felt by ESL students. Throughout the book, we try slowly to shift the responsibility for learning from "Teacher teaching everything" to "Students learning to teach themselves." Being able to speak a second language is a privilege. Learning a second language, particularly as an adult, requires courage, vision and determination. In the face of what often seems to our students to be impossible odds, they have made the decision to try to learn English. Part of our job is to convince them that they CAN do this. That is the aim of everything in this book. We want to make their job, and yours, a little easier.