Fifty Ways to Practice Grammar: Tips for ESL/EFL Students
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You will learn 50 ways to notice, understand, and practice different grammatical structures in English. The book is divided into six sections:
1. The Big Picture (general advice and strategies)
2. Nouns and Verbs
3. Adjectives and Adverbs
4. Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Articles
5. Sentences and their Parts
6. Other Topics
You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. However, students who are already in a class can also use this book to study and learn more effectively.
Maggie Sokolik
Maggie Sokolik, Ph.D. was born in Olympia, Washington. She is a writer/editor living in the Bay Area. She graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She directs the writing program at UC Berkeley. She is also the instructor for a popular online writing course, College Writing 2x, as well as the BerkeleyX Book Club, both offered through edx.org. These courses are offered free of charge to readers and writers around the world, and have attracted over a quarter million students to date.
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Fifty Ways to Practice Grammar - Maggie Sokolik
50 Ways to Practice Grammar: Tips for ESL/EFL Students
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Edited by Dorothy E. Zemach. Cover design by DJ Rogers.
Published in the United States by Wayzgoose Press.
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How To Use This Book
It takes many hours to become proficient at anything—a sport, a hobby, a musical instrument, or a foreign language. Many thousands of hours, in fact! For a student of English, this can seem difficult to accomplish, especially if your only opportunity to study English is in the classroom.
This book will help you learn and practice English grammar, both inside and outside the classroom. If you are already taking English classes, some of the tips will help you get more out of your classes. If you’re not taking English classes – and even if you are – other tips will give you ideas to try on your own. Not every idea will work for every student. That’s why there are fifty. We feel sure that many of the ideas presented