Highly Effective ESL / EFL Textbook Gets Vietnamese Students Talking

April 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Los Angeles, California – Chimayo Press is very pleased to announce the release of its newest title: Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations for Advanced Vietnamese English Language Learners.

This culturally sensitive text encourages Vietnamese students studying English to speak about their cultural experiences, their families, and their lives – whether they’re studying in Vietnam or abroad.  With dozens of practical speaking exercises, Compelling Conversations helps Vietnamese English Language Learners develop greater fluency, develop and express their opinions, give reasons to support their opinions, build critical thinking skills and prepare for standardized tests with speaking sections (TOEFL, IELTS).

Like the original Compelling Conversations, this textbook gently pushes Vietnamese English Language Learners to develop many vital conversational skills, helping them to speak in English in class and out. The text is infused with Vietnamese cultural references and includes 15 thematic chapters to create quality conversations, uses conversation starters, interview questions, classic quotations, paraphrasing exercises, traditional proverbs and worksheets to create hours of English conversation and class discussions.

Leah Montano, a Vietnam-based instructor and program coordinator who reviewed Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations for Advanced Vietnamese English Language Learners, notes, "This is a great book to get my students to talk beyond the usual topics they find in ESL textbooks in Vietnam."

English Teaching Professional magazine’s review of the original Compelling Conversations identified it as a “recommended resource for teachers who want to make their conversation classes more learner-centered” and called it “a notable addition to any English teacher’s bookshelf.”

Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations for Advanced Vietnamese English Language Learners (ISBN: 978-0-9826178-1-6) is now available at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and through Ingram’s.  

Chimayo Press is an independent educational publishing company based in Los Angeles.  Since 2005, we’ve been committed to publishing niche books that create compelling conversations, deepen relationships, and celebrate the human spirit.  Author Eric Roth taught at the APU International School in Ho Chi Minh City and he is a lecturer at the American Language Institute at the University of Southern California.  He co-authored Compelling Conversations with Toni Aberson.   More information is available at http://www.CompellingConversations.com.

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Chimayo Press is an independent educational publishing company committed to publishing niche books that create compelling conversations, deepen relationships, and celebrate the human spirit. Our first title-Compelling Conversations-is used in 50 nations.