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The Best Books for English as a Second Language (ESL) Self-Study
a book list by Alan Kennedy
As a professional ESL teacher, I feel these are the best books out there for an ESL student, whether he or she is learning in a classroom environment or at home.
Also, these books are not only for students, but for any teacher, manager, or family member of an ESL learner.
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by Betty Schrampfer Azar
Flashlight Worthy says:
- For beginner or low intermediate students
- Book includes an answer key
- Book is organized clearly by grammar point
- Information is presented in useful, simple charts
- Sample sentences use natural-sounding idiomatic North American English
- Exercises follow the presentation of each grammar point, for learner practice.
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by Betty Schrampfer Azar
Flashlight Worthy says:
- For intermediate or advanced students
- Book includes an answer key
- Book is organized clearly by grammar point
- Information is presented in useful, simple charts
- Sample sentences use natural-sounding idiomatic North American English
- Exercises follow the presentation of each grammar point, for learner practice.
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by Felicity O'Dell, Michael McCarthy
Flashlight Worthy says:
- Book includes an answer key
- Book includes useful strategies for memorizing vocabulary
- Vocabulary terms are organized by subject matter (work, sports, education, the media, etc.) and also by lexical type (uncountable nouns, discourse markers, common compounds, etc.)
- Sample sentences use natural-sounding idiomatic North American English
- Exercises after each topic allow students to do self-study, with answer key
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Ellen Shaw, by Stuart Redman
Flashlight Worthy says:
- Book does NOT include an answer key (the edition that includes answers seems to be out of print. It can be purchased from other sellers here.
- Book includes useful strategies for memorizing vocabulary
- Vocabulary terms are organized by subject matter (work, sports, education, the media, etc.) and also by lexical type (uncountable nouns, discourse markers, common compounds, etc.)
- Sample sentences use natural-sounding idiomatic North American English
- Exercises after each topic allow students to do self-study, with answer key
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by Felicity O'Dell, Michael McCarthy
Flashlight Worthy says:
- Book includes an answer key
- Book includes useful strategies for memorizing vocabulary
- Vocabulary terms are organized by subject matter (work, sports, education, the media, etc.) and also by lexical type (uncountable nouns, discourse markers, common compounds, etc.)
- Sample sentences use natural-sounding idiomatic North American English
- Exercises after each topic allow students to do self-study, with answer key
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by Felicity O'Dell, Michael McCarthy
Flashlight Worthy says:
- Book includes an answer key AND a CD-ROM
- Book includes useful strategies for memorizing vocabulary
- Vocabulary terms are organized by subject matter (work, sports, education, the media, etc.) and also by lexical type (uncountable nouns, discourse markers, common compounds, etc.)
- Sample sentences use natural-sounding idiomatic North American English
- Exercises after each topic allow students to do self-study, with answer key
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by Robert J. Dixson
Flashlight Worthy says:
This book is arranged by level of commonality/difficulty from “at last” to “give him a big hand.” It also includes many phrasal verbs and collocations. It has lots of practice exercises, is perfect for self-study and has a useful dictionary skills section at the end. As a bonus, there's an appendix that offers translations of all the entries into Spanish, French and Portuguese.
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by Linda Lane
Flashlight Worthy says:
This book comes with a listening CD and includes mouth diagrams and practice exercises.
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by Linda Lane
Flashlight Worthy says:
This book comes with a listening CD and includes mouth diagrams and practice exercises.
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by Linda Lane
Flashlight Worthy says:
This book comes with a listening CD and includes mouth diagrams and practice exercises.
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Alan Kennedy's a language teacher living in New York City. When he's not reading graphic novels he's usually reading about Linguistics. He's the brother-in-law of the founder of Flashlight Worthy, and he's glad to have gotten both of his sons into the Tintin books.
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