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The goal of the series is to expose students to the types of texts and tasks that they will encounter in their academic course work and provide them with the skills to be successful when that encounter occurs.
At each level in the series, there are two thematically paired books. One is an academic reading and writing skills book, in which students encounter readings that are based on authentic academic texts. In this book, students are given the skills to understand texts and respond to them in writing. The reading and writing book is paired with an academic listening and speaking skills book, in which students encounter discussion and lecture material specially prepared by experts in their field.
In this book, students learn how to take notes from a lecture, participate in discussions, and prepare short presentations.com The books at each level may be used as stand-alone reading and writing books or listening and speaking books. Or they may be used together to create a complete four-skills course. This is made possible because the content of each book at each level is very closely related. Each unit and chapter, for example, has the same title and deals with similar content, so that teachers can easily focus on different skills, but the same content, as they toggle from one book to the other.
Additionally, if the books are taught together, when students are presented with the culminating unit writing or speaking assignment, they will have a rich and varied supply of reading and lecture material to draw on. A sustained content-based approach The Academic Encounters series adopts a sustained content-based approach, which means that at each level in the series students study subject matter from one or two related academic content areas. There are two major advantages gained by students who study with materials that adopt this approach. • Because all the subject matter in each book is related to a particular academic discipline, concepts and language tend to recur.
This has a major facilitating effect. As students progress through the course, what at first seemed challenging feels more and more accessible. Students thus gain confidence and begin to feel that academic study in English is not as overwhelming a task as they might at first have thought. • The second major advantage in studying in a sustained content-based approach is that students actually gain some in-depth knowledge of a particular subject area.
In other content-based series, in which units go from one academic discipline to another, students' knowledge of any one subject area is inevitably superficial. However, after studying a level of Academic Encounters students may feel that they have sufficiently good grounding in the subject area that they may decide to move on to study the academic subject area in a mainstream class, perhaps fulfilling one of their general education requirements. The four levels in the series The Academic Encounters series consists of four pairs of books designed for four levels of student proficiency. Each pair of books focuses on one or more related academic subject areas commonly taught in college-level courses.
• Academic Encounters 1: The Natural World Level I in the series focuses on earth science and biology. The books are designed for students at the low-intermediate level.J:!I 01,,j �JD 8 Introduction www.com • Academic Encounters 2: American Studies Level 2 in the series focuses on American history, politics, government, and culture. The books are designed for students at the intermediate level. • Academic Encounters 3: Life in Society Level 3 in the series focuses on sociological topics.
The books are designed for stuuc::nts at the high-intermediate level. • Academic Encounters 4: Human Behavior Level 4 in the series focuses on psychology and human communication. The books are designed for students at the low-advanced to advanced level. New in the Second Edition The second edition of the Academic Encounters series retains the major hallmark of the series: the sustained content approach with closely related pairs of books at each level.
However, lessons learned over the years in which Academic Encounters has been on the market have been heeded in the publication of this brand new edition. As a result, the second edition marks many notable improvements that will make the series even more attractive to the teacher who wants to fully prepare his or her students to undertake academic studies in English. New in the series Four units, eight chapters per level. The number of units and chapters in each level has been reduced from five units I ten chapters in the first edition to four units I eight chapters in the second edition.
This reduction in source material will enable instructors to more easily cover the material in each book. While the amount of reading and listening material that students have to engage with has been reduced, there has been an increase in the number of tasks that help students access the source material, including a greater number of tasks that focus on the linguistic features of the source material. In both the reading and writing and the listening and speaking books. there are tasks that now draw students' attention to the academic vocabulary that is embedded in the readings and lectures, including a focus on the Academic Word list (AWL).
All the AWL words encountered during the readings and lectures are also listed in an appendix at the back of each book. Full color new design. A number of features have been added to the design, not only to make the series more attractive, but more importantly to make the material easier to navigate. Each task is coded so that teachers and students can see at a glance what skill is being developed.
In addition, the end-of-unit writing skill and speaking skill sections are set off in colored pages that make them easy to find. New in the reading and writing books More writing skill development. In the first edition of Academic Encounters, the reading and writing books focused primarily on reading skills. In the second edition, the two skills are much more evenly weighted, making these books truly reading and writing books.
End-of-chapter and unit writing assignments. At the end of each chapter and unit, students are taught about aspects of academic writing and given writing assignments. Step-by step scaffolding is provided in these sections to ensure that students draw on the content, skills, and language they studied in the unit; and can successfully complete the assignments. New and updated readings.
Because many of the readings in the series are drawn from actual discipline-specific academic textbooks, recent editions of those textbooks have been used to update and replace readings. Introduction 9 New in the listening and speaking books More speaking skill development.