College Vocabulary Skills and Strategies

College Vocabulary Skills and Strategies stresses that the goal of a vocabulary text is to help students gain a sense of ownership-that is, a good book should help students incorporate new words into their personal vocabulary to enhance their lives and academic careers. How is such a learning objective achieved? PRACTICE. Elizabeth Branch and Annie Jewett offer critical features including ample fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple choice exercises to teach the student definitions, pronunciation, and context clues. In addition, they provide an entire section dealing with strategies for learning new words and a focus on discipline specific words in medicine, business, law enforcement, psychology, and computer science. Key to the pedagogy of this text is the free, interactive companion website at www.prenhall.com/branch that includes: Definition and pronunciation of 180 words from text (pronunciation in English and Spanish). Matching exercises to help the students recognize the key words and their definitions. Fun and interactive self-grading soccer game that prompts the student to .fill in the blank with the correct word from the section. Communication tools such as chat rooms and message boards to facilitate online collaboration and communication. Built-in routing that gives students the ability to forward responses to their instructors.Branch, Elizabeth G. is the author of 'College Vocabulary Skills and Strategies' with ISBN 9780130971029 and ISBN 0130971022.