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“We haven’t had a book like this before, that addresses LLNP and pre-CSWE outcomes. A lot of people have been asking for this.” Book-seller’s review “I wish someone had addressed these pronunciation and writing points with me when I was just starting out. It would’ve saved me so much trouble.” Upper-Intermediate student reviewer It's different...The first thing you’ll notice about Everyday Numeracy in Australia is that it’s not like other Elementary-level textbooks on the market. That’s because it’s been designed from the ground up with everything elementary learners need, nothing they don’t. The authors are experts in the needs of newly arrived adult learners. Into this volume, they have distilled their experience of helping literally thousands of new migrants adjust to life in Australia. |
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Take the time to get the basics right
Too many textbooks tend to “rush” the critical elements of basic numeracy, especially for adults and young adults, because numbers are perceived as “too simple” to worry about. But this often results in intermediate and even advanced learners who have fossilised errors in pronunciation or ordering, which become huge obstacles to their progress in education, employment and community services.
The problems we solve
There are so many skills that native speakers and teachers take for granted, that regularly derail the efforts of smart, educated migrants to ‘get along’ in Australia. Imagine how frustrating life would be if you had trouble giving people your address, or phone number, or the dates for appointments?
How many students, even intermediate and advanced, still have trouble with…?
- The difference between thirteen and thirty
- Giving dates “the Australian way”
- The final “th” in ordinals – eg. eighth, twelfth, etc.
- The conventions of writing their address on envelopes and forms
- Legibly handwriting the numerals
Real world use builds confidence
Students can make real-world use of every stage of the book, from day one:
- Basic digits 1-10, (phone numbers, bus numbers, postcodes, Medicare, number plates, telephone numbers)
- Teens (apartment numbers)
- 20-99 (ages, street numbers)
- Hundreds and thousands (money)
- Ordinals (days, months)
Pronunciation guides
Micro-teaching references and exercises cover the critical phonemes and syllable stress patterns for a wide range of tasks involving numbers, to save students the frustration of not being understood “in the street”.
Authentic forms
With special permission from Centrelink and Medicare, the book reproduces samples of government forms that students will need, for practice filling out.
Proven in the classroom
All these exercises are from real-world lessons, designed by the authors and delivered in hundreds of classroom over 25 years. They cover the essential foundations that other books leave out.
No canned speech
Instead of a CD, Everyday Numeracy in Australia provides rich opportunities for students and teachers to generate authentic, spontaneous dialogue that is specific to their context and setting – their bus routes, their phone numbers, their ages, their postcodes -- not the anonymous voice of a far-off person. The trouble with CDs on textbooks is that the speech tends to be too generic. This causes problems for beginning learners, who need to follow the guides literally. Teachers can contextualise this information far more effectively than any CD, and this is how the authors have met with success in their classrooms.
No confusing directions
Instead of a table of contents that beginning learners can’t read, the book opens with what the students need most – the core references and pronunciation elements for basic numeracy. All the methodology and contents teachers require are in the accompanying Teacher’s Manual.
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