Actively Engaged Together is designed for the students with low-proficiency, anxiety, and a limited repertoire of practice strategies. A such, it focuses on basic interpersonal communication skills through storytelling and an automatically scored 8-topic pen pal writing project using the Virtual Writing Tutor grammar checker. Students at this level enjoy exchanging messages each week with peers at the same college or at other schools.
Instead of giving these at-risk students more of what did not work for them in their high school English classes, grammar and vocabulary practice is story-based. Grammar and vocabulary are embedded in short narratives with illustrations, with a variety of oral practice strategy drills in each lesson to make new structures stick. Rather than try to memorize decontextualized rules and verb paradigms, students acquire the language directly as formulaic chunks in obligatory contexts.

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(ISBN 978-0-9938308-6-0) 
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Actively Engaged at College is ideal for college low intermediate a-block students  (604-101A) , this innovative language learning system was developed to address the problem of low motivation on both sides of the teacher’s desk in low-intermediate ESL courses at the college level. 

In contrast to other textbooks with their separate volumes for grammar and skills, Actively Engaged takes a combined approach so that reading and listening themes are fully integrated with grammar lessons, cards games, information gaps, simulations, and a multi-week socially constructed narrative writing project. During the course, language structures are taught and practiced step-by-step for meaningful use in complex speaking and writing tasks. Students have access to a companion website, complete with self-correcting and easy-to-correct online tests and assignments.

Students love the liveliness and cohesiveness of the lessons. Teachers love how manageable their workload becomes with the complete set of online evaluations and integration of the Virtual Writing Tutor to provide instant corrective feedback on writing errors. In short, Actively Engaged at College is a pedagogically sound alternative to the formulaic course books on the market.

ISBN 978-0-9938308-0-8
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Actively Engaged in Persuasion  is for students who can speak fluently and have largely mastered the verb tense system in English—despite the occasional mistake. For these students, the only significant difference between them and their native speaking counterparts at an English language college is their limited vocabulary. Typically, their sentence structures need work, too.

With Actively Engaged in Persuasion, students learn how to discuss complex moral questions. They learn how to structure an argument essay using their own and other people’s ideas, to improve their pronunciation and sentence structure, and to connect with their audience in ways that make listeners more receptive to facts and logic. 

Persuasion trains students to be persuasive in English. Students learn to write and revise an argument essay and persuasive techniques when giving a talk on a controversial issue. It leverages the FastAssignment AI scoring system to automatically evaluate argument essays as a source of formative evaluation, activities to help students set performance goals, and five lessons for reciprocal teaching.

ISBN 978-0-9938308-0-8
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Actively Engaged Online is ideal for college low-intermediate B-block students (604-101B) or is deal for college high-intermediate B-block students (604-102B). Actively Engaged Online was developed to make program-related ESL courses at the college level more relevant to the modern workplace and academic fields by incorporating digital literacy training into reading, writing, listening and speaking tasks.

Different from other textbooks with their separate volumes for grammar and skills, Actively Engaged integrates reading and listening with grammar lessons, card games, information gaps, simulations, and a multi-week hypertext narrative writing project. During the course, language structures are taught and practiced step-by-step for meaningful use in complex speaking and writing tasks. Students have access to a companion website, complete with self-correcting and easy-to-correct online tests and assignments.

Students love the liveliness and cohesiveness of the lessons. Teachers love how manageable their workload becomes with the complete set of online evaluations and integration of the Virtual Writing Tutor to provide instant corrective feedback on writing errors. In short, Actively Engaged Online is a pedagogically sound alternative to the formulaic course books on the market.

ISBN 978-0-9938308-5-3

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Actively Engaged on the Job is ideal for your college beginner b-block students (604-100B), this innovative language learning system was developed to address the problem of low motivation on both sides of the teacher’s desk of false-beginner or high beginner ESL courses at the college level. 

In contrast to other textbooks with their separate volumes for grammar and skills, Actively Engaged takes a combined approach so that reading and listening themes are fully integrated with grammar lessons, cards games, information gaps, simulations, and a multi-week socially constructed narrative writing project. During the course, language structures are taught and practiced step-by-step for meaningful use in complex speaking and writing tasks. Students have access to a companion website, complete with self-correcting and easy-to-correct online tests and assignments.

Students love the liveliness and cohesiveness of the lessons. Teachers love how manageable their workload becomes with the complete set of online evaluations and integration of the Virtual Writing Tutor to provide instant corrective feedback on writing errors and FieldRelated.com to provide feedback on field-related vocabulary. In short, Actively Engaged on the Job is a pedagogically sound alternative to the formulaic course books on the market.

ISBN 978-0-9938308-1-5

ESL teachers, send an email to nicholas@Conversolo.com for an evaluation copy