An approach that incorporates reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
What is an integrated-skills approach?
100
Program and standards directed at helping newcomers live successful lives in the United States.
What is EL-Civics?
100
Nat Geo’s six-level, series for adult education with the foundations and tools needed to achieve success in life, college, and career. Future’s main competitor.
What is Stand Out?
100
The level University Success targets.
What is the transitional or bridge level?
100
A proficiency scale upon which GSE was built.
What is the Common European Framework of Reference?
200
A grammar-teaching approach that was introduced in FOG in 1994.
What is contextualized grammar approach?
200
CCRS
What is College and Career Readiness Standards?
200
A CUP’s series that combines academic writing skills, vocabulary, models, grammar, and a dedicated section on plagiarism.
What is Final Draft?
200
Digital resources focused on student success and soft skills.
What are the Academic Success Strategies videos?
200
“Can-do” statements that describe what a learner should be able to do at every point on the Global Scale of English.
What are the Learning Objectives?
300
An approach, in which instruction and rote practice are done at home and communicative practice is done in the classroom.
What is flipped classroom?
300
STEAM
What is science, technology, engineering, arts, and math?
300
Nat Geo’s five-level, two-strand academic series.
What is Pathways?
300
The University Success Subject Matter Experts.
Who are the Stanford professors?
300
A searchable database of learning objectives.
What is the Teacher Toolkit?
400
A process by which assessment information is used by teachers to adjust their teaching strategies, and by students to adjust their learning strategies.
What is assessment for learning?
400
ELP
What is English Language Proficiency?
400
New OUP grammar series that is a direct competition to Azar.
What is Elements of Success?
400
Three parts in each University Success book.
What are Fundamental Skills, Critical Thinking Skills, and Extended Reading/Lectures/Writing?
400
Two US grammar titles currently mapped to the GSE.
What are FOG and Advanced Grammar?
500
An approach that tells us that grammar is the organizing system to help learners process and make sense of the input they receive.
What is Grammar-Based Teaching?
500
CEFR
What is The Common European Framework of Reference?
500
“This best-selling grammar series, now in the 6th edition, inspires learners through compelling stories, National Geographic images, and content, relevant to students' lives.”
What is Grammar in Context?
500
The approach in University Success, first ever in any ESL program, that blends intensive skills development and expanded application.
What is the developmental English approach?
500
The bottom range and the top range of the GSE scale.