Developing Skills

This important new course leads the adult and secondary
school student who is an absolute beginner to fluent English
through four integrated books. Each of the four books can,
however, be used independently of the others and can indeed
be entered at any point. The course will be found particularly
suitable for adult students in need of remedial work; schools
and language institutes where wastage caused by irregular
attendance is a problem; and students who wish to study
on their own.
The basic aims of the course are: to train the student in the
four skills of understanding, speaking, reading and writing; to
provide the student with a course that will enable him to use
the language; and to enable the student to work entirely from a
single volume without the need for additional practice books.
The new concept introduced by the author to achieve these
aims is particularly that of the multi-purpose text which is
iised as a basis for aural comprehension, oral practice, reading,
oral composition, dictation, controlled comprehension,
précis and composition practice, and written grammar
exercises in recall.