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Contributors: Ghazy, Eissa, Elsherif, Hollenberg, Loy, and Rizk
Publisher: University of Oregon Libraries
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This book presents materials for mastering the Arabic alphabet and the student's first steps in Egyptian Arabic.
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Contributors: Altman, Clancy, Coleman, Encarnacion, Khanna, Kicenski, Leonard, Mata, Moran, Plump, Reitzel, Ruggeri-DiLello, Weidner, Yee, and Hoppe-Nagao
Publisher: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
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Interpersonal Communication: Context and Connection provides an engaging overview of interpersonal communication grounded in theory, research, and practical application, with an eye to the lived experience of college students. The first three chapters provide the foundation of interpersonal communication with an examination of the theoretical and conceptual background of communication, self, and perception. The next section of the book examines unique features of messaging, with an exploration of listening, verbal, and nonverbal communication. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 explore dynamic factors that shape interpersonal relationships, including emotions, climate, and conflict. The final chapters of the book delve into communication in context through building and maintaining relationships, the dark side of communication, and workplace relationships.
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Contributors: Ikeda and Baumgardt
Publisher: PALNI
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This is a textbook for first-semester Spanish with a focus on the cultural products, practices and perspectives of Spanish-speaking communities in the world today. This text is designed to build students’ cultural and communicative proficiency at the novice level through interaction with authentic resources and real-life video conversations featuring native Spanish speakers living in the American Midwest. Each chapter includes interactive activities focused on each of the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal and presentational), at least one Integrated Performance Assessment, exercises with automated feedback and prompts that promote cross-cultural comparisons through research and reflection.
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Contributor: Linam
Publisher: University of North Alabama
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This book is a continuation of GR 102. It features review from GR 101-102, explanations of grammar, videos to reteach concepts, extra practice, and several reading selections to reinforce grammar.
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Contributor: Linam
Publisher: University of North Alabama
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This book is a continuation of GR 201. It focuses on grammar found most often in literary selections and essays as well as several reading selections to reinforce grammar.
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Contributor: Linam
Publisher: University of North Alabama
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This book is a continuation of GR 101. It features easy-to-read explanations of grammar, up-to-date videos, extra practice, and interactive exercises, as well as reading selections.
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Contributor: Linam
Publisher: University of North Alabama
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This book focuses on conversation. It contains several prompts that can be adapted to different levels of difficulty or turned into classroom discussions. They can also serve as a grammar review if needed. A review of pronunciation is included.
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Contributors: Francis, Jr., Carly-Miles, Clough, Cooper, Hagstrom-Schmidt, Rozier, Thielman, Todd, LeMire, Anders, and McKinney
Publisher: Texas A&M University
License: CC BY-NC
Open-educational resource textbook created by the TAMU English 203 OER Committee.
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Contributor: Young
Publisher: University of West Florida Pressbooks
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Introduction to Literature: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and How They Shape Us introduces college freshmen to the study of literature through a focus on texts that, generally, they already know, or think they know, and how those texts aim to shape audiences to be compliant cultural objects. The book is organized around several prominent story groups, including various genres and forms, meant to promote discussion and discovery leading to students’ understanding that these texts function as cultural sculptors of readers’ principles and behaviors. Students develop the skill of analyzing texts and creating sound arguments about them through class discussions and a series of writing assignments. Ideally, they leave the course understanding how to create a sound argument and, more pointedly, that there is no such thing as “just a story.”
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Contributors: Marzluf, Goins, Debes, Gray, and Knoblauch
Publisher: New Prairie Press
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(Re)Writing Communities and Identities enables college-level students to develop their ability to compose various informative and expressive genres, including analyses, reflections, summaries, syntheses, and informative reports. While students raise their consciousness about their writing process and audience-based informative strategies, they also familiarize themselves with important social and cultural issues related to the theme of "identities and communities."
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