This study collects 11 high-school EFL conversation textbooks used in Korea and sees how the textbooks teach culture since language learning is closely tied to culture learning (Kramsch, 2002). Conversation materials are chosen because socio-cultural values and norms are best acquired during the process of interaction (Scollon & Scollon,…

This first book of a conversational English program for adults contains an introductory section in Portuguese and exercises in English. The text centers around an English-speaking family from the United States that goes to live in Brazil. It contains color photographs with captions followed by exercises. The exercises are in English and involve…

This second book of a conversational English program for adults contains an introductory section in Portuguese and exercises in English. The text centers around an English-speaking family from the United States that goes to live in Brazil. It contains color photographs with captions followed by exercises. The exercises are in English and involve…

This is the first text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. The purpose of this text is to teach basic conversational English while providing students with an introduction to secretarial terminology and skills. Each of the twenty lessons has four parts: Part 1 focuses on the language used in social…

This course, intended for intermediate students of English-as-a-second-language, seeks to identify the needs of students in the areas of comprehension, speech, reading, and writing for the purpose of being able to individually counsel students in Quinmester Programs. Performance objectives are prescribed, including study of fundamentals of county,…

This book is the second volume of a two-volume basic course in spoken American English. In most cases, the student using this book will have used the first volume; a student could begin with this volume if he has enough vocabulary and certain basic structures. The basic organization is around the verb and verb phrase. There are thirteen…

This is the second text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. Its purpose is to teach conversational English while providing students with useful information about secretarial skills and American culture. The fifteen lessons in the text are each divided into four parts: Part 1 focuses on some aspect…

This is the third text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. Its purpose is to teach conversational English at the intermediate level while providing students with useful information about various secretarial professions and about American culture. The ten lessons in the text are each divided into…

This volume is part of a series, which is in turn part of a course entitled "Contact Canada" and designed for adult Francophone students of English as a second language. The series contains exercises for learning conversational tools. This volume deals with opening formulas, which are grouped under the following categories: (1)…

This volume is part of a series, which is in turn part of a course entitled "Contact Canada" and designed for adult Francophone students of English as a second language. The series contains exercises for learning conversational tools. This volume deals with linking formulas, which are grouped under the following categories: (1)…

This annotated bibliography contains 130 items on instructional aids for ESL teaching. Entries include: textbooks, reading, composition, and vocabulary workbooks, graded readings and skits and advanced literature readers, conversation guidebooks, supplementary audiolingual manuals, self-instruction dialogue books, idiom workbooks, pattern drills…

This book is the first volume of a two-volume basic course in spoken American English. The text is divided into thirteen learning units of three lessons each plus four review units. The first lesson in a learning unit includes a dialogue, basic sentences, learning drills, and words and expressions. The second lesson involves reading, conversation…

This volume is part of a series, which is in turn part of a course entitled "Contact Canada" and designed for adult Francophone students of English as a second language. The series contains exercises for learning conversational tools. This volume deals specifically with response and closing formulas. In section 1, response formulas are…

This is a text intended for use with adult beginning classes in ESL in a 15-week intensive course. The major objective of the text is to develop communicative competence. Therefore, the structures are taught through mechanical drills, meaningful drills, and finally communicative drills, so that "teacher talk" is gradually diminished and "student…

This workbook accompanies the first text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. It provides written reinforcement of the material presented in the text; the twenty lessons in the workbook correspond to the twenty lessons in the text and give the student practice in reading and writing what he has…