Welcome! Below are the four 4-skills coursebooks offered on this website with brief descriptions. Click on a coursebook to enter its supplementary pages. The basic format is common for all textbooks. That includes:
* extensive use of pictures to facilitate discuss, brainstorming, and narrative preparation
* vocabulary and vocabulary skill building
* use of dictogloss (grammar dictation) to learn a narrative
* narratives of educational content, true stories and facts about the world
* intensive practice of narratives so students thoroughly learn them
* related skill building and conversation exercises
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This is a higher level beginner text, appropriate for Japanese high school students, low level university students, or adult learners. The narratives provides facts, sometimes surprising, about the natural world. For example, "Some grasshoppers have ears on their stomachs." The entire text is available online as a "moodle" course. |
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This is a high level beginner text, slightly higher than Nature Stories, appropriate for Japanese high school, university, as well as adult learners. The narratives are rather serious, involving true stories describing particular social problems. Readings include folktales and other information about the countries featured in the narrative. Full text available on moodle. Click here to enter the supplementary pages for Global Stories. |
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This intermediate level text presents narratives of extraordinary people working for peace and justice. For example, it explains how Mohammed Yunus of Bangladesh started microfinancing, the hugely successful program of lending money to the world's poorest people. Click below: ... |