num_pages: 141
description: Distant An Integrated Skills Approach to Learning Language through Literature contains authentic short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels by ethnic minority writers. Informed by reader-response theory, the text uses student-centered activities and a reading-process approach to literature. In the spirit of communicative language teaching, Distant Thunder provides abundant opportunities for students to share their written and spoken responses.Distant Thunder is divided into nine units, each focusing on a single story or poem accompanied by reader-response activities and language exercises. The text introduces various literary structures (such as point of view, character, and setting) and includes a focus on language section in each unit as well.For high-intermediate to advanced ESL/EFL students.
language: English
title: Distant Thunder: An Integrated Skills Approach to Learning Language Through Literature
titlecomplete: Distant Thunder: An Integrated Skills Approach to Learning Language Through Literature (Pitt Series in Esl)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr