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The best ebooks at the best price: free!

07.26.2010

If you have trouble finding books in English, ManyBooks.net is another place for you to look. ManyBooks has more than 28,000 books in their collection, books they say are “the best ebooks at the best price: free!”

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To write well, read well

07.22.2010

In a recent tweet, I encouraged readers to subscribe to William Zinsser’s Zinsser on Friday blog posts at The American Scholar (TAS). Unfortunately, I left out the link. Here are the links to the TAS web site and the blog feed The American Scholar web site. The American Scholar RSS feed – including William Zinsser’s [...]

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Spotlight – great ideas and academic English delivered to your desktop.

07.10.2010

The best way to improve your writing and speaking is to read good writers and listen to good speakers! Today I’d like to spotlight three great reading and listening sources for more advanced English learners. All three of them contain a lot of academic English. And all three of them provide RSS feeds so you can feast on more great ideas and good English every time they add something new.

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Spotlight: DISCOVER the power of reading and listening

06.20.2010

Curators are people who select, organize, and look after collections. Museums have curators, and so does Successful English! My main job here is to create and curate Successful English’s two collections. LEARN is a collection of articles based on the work of the best researchers and language specialists I know. DISCOVER is a collection of the best intermediate and advanced reading and listening resources I can find. And this week there have been some important changes in the DISCOVER collection.

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A feast of academic English

06.11.2010

The word feast can be used several ways. Today I’m using it to describe a book – Writing to Learn – by William Zinsser. Writing to Learn is a feast because it contains a generous supply of enjoyable academic English. If you want to improve your academic English, it’s a good place to start.

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English language coaching: path to fluency and success

03.25.2010

Most English learners dream of the day they’ll be able to use English effortlessly and fluently. But they’re not sure how to get there. English language coaching shows them how.

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The purpose of language instruction

02.25.2010

What is the purpose of language instruction, or education?

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Korean professor says extensive reading is necessary

02.18.2010

Shin Kyu-cheol, professor in the department of English language at Far East University, says that extensive reading* is crucial (of the greatest importance) to English acquisition.

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Mr. Ayers and Mr. Lopez

02.16.2010

When LA Times writer Steve Lopez first heard Nathaniel Ayers’ music – on the busy streets of downtown LA – neither of them had any idea how their lives would change.

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New face for Lit2Go – free audiobook classics

02.09.2010

When I saw Lit2Go – just after they started – I thought it was a great idea, but difficult to use. Now they have a new face – at iTunes U – that looks good and is easy to use.

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Enjoy short stories by American writers

01.31.2010

My students have always enjoyed reading short stories by American writers like Jack London, O. Henry, and Mark Twain. You can find a growing list of these short stories – from VOA Special English – here on Successful English.

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