English as a Second Language (ESL)

Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners

Della Jean Abrahams (Portland State University)

2017

Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0

This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers, as well as links to additional listening resources on the web.

Formats: Online, PDF, and Word

Includes:

Reviews: Open Textbook Library

Suggested for:

ESL 1112 Oral and Written Communication in English as a Second Language: Elementary Level II

ESL 2111 Oral and Written Communication in English as a Second Language: Intermediate Level I

In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook

Bow Valley College and NorQuest College

2016

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

The textbook:

• helps learners notice, learn, and practice English that will be helpful in your community
• gives learners practice in the four main language skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing
• helps learners learn about intercultural skills
• helps learners develop some important essential skills
• can be used as an online textbook with interactive activities or downloaded, printed and used as a regular textbook

The textbook is aimed at Canadian Language Benchmarks levels 5/6 and has been designed to be facilitated by an instructor.

Format: Online and PDF

Reviews: Open Textbook Library

Suggested for:

ESL 2111 Oral and Written Communication in English as a Second Language: Intermediate Level I

ESL 2112 Oral and Written Communication in English as a Second Language: Intermediate Level II

College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success

Barbara Hall and Elizabeth Wallace (Georgia State University)

2018

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing etext for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic assignments. Following that, we provide instruction in paragraph and essay writing with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more challenging assignments.

We have structured the etext into three basic parts. Part I, Composing Strategies and Techniques, includes a sequenced discussion from composing effective sentences through paragraph and essay writing. This includes the prewriting and planning stages of writing as well as the revising and editing stage in the first five chapters. Part II, Language Use, Grammar, and Mechanics, is meant to be used as a grammar and mechanics handbook as well as the practice and review of idiomatic wording. Part III, All About Writing: Samples, Topics, and Rubrics, has chapters with additional writing topics for practice, sample student papers, and rubrics for evaluating writing.

Formats: PDF and Word

Reviews: Open Textbook Library

Suggested for:

ESL 2113 English Grammar for Second Language Learners: Intermediate Level

ESL 3361 Write to Be Read: Writing Academic Texts

French as a Second Language (FLS)

See other suggestions in the French version of the guide under Français langue seconde (FLS).

Suggested for:

FLS 1511 Oral and Written Communication in French – Beginner 

FLS 1512 Oral and Written Communication in French – Beginner II

Suggested for:

FLS 1511 Oral and Written Communication in French – Beginner 

FLS 1512 Oral and Written Communication in French – Beginner II

Chapeau! First-Year French

David A. Dinneen (University of Kansas) and Madeleine Kernen (Missouri State University)

1989

Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0

Chapeau! is a first-year college text. Although it may appear, at first glance, to move very fast and introduce a large amount of material early, the vocabulary and grammatical structures that we expect students to control actively by the end of the year are limited in accord with our notion of a reasonable application of the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. As a result, while some instructors may be surprised at such things as the absence of the possessive pronoun, no insistence on the use of optional subjunctives, and no active treatment of the relative dont, others may be disturbed by what we still include in a first-year text. What we do expect students to acquire (which is quantitatively less than what we present in the text for them to know about), we believe they will acquire well, providing a sound basis for further study (formal or informal) and permitting us to say to them, both during and at the end of the course, “Chapeau!”

Formats: PDF and MP3

Includes: Audio exercises, vocabulary lists at the end of chapters with translations

Reviews: Open Textbook Library

Suggested for:

FLS 1511 Oral and Written Communication in French – Beginner 

FLS 1512 Oral and Written Communication in French – Beginner II

Suggested for:

FLS 2511 Communication orale et écrite en français – Intermédiaire I

Le Littéraire dans le quotidien

Joanna Gay Luks (Cornell University)

2015

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Le Littéraire dans le quotidien is an open textbook for use in French courses. The Literary in the Everyday represents a new pedagogical approach to reading and writing at the lower levels and is applicable to all languages. Teachers of foreign languages besides French can read about the approach in the Teacher’s Guide. Go to Google Drive for individual chapters.

Formats: PDF and online

Reviews: Open Textbook Library

Suggested for:

FLS 2521 Lire pour écrire en français

FLS 2741 Mieux lire en français

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