Study Skills Success
Issue: Vol 36 No. 2 (2019)
Journal: CALICO Journal
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DOI: 10.1558/cj.36198
Abstract:
The pervasiveness of smart phones, tablets and, iPads in terms of accessibility and availability has led to the development of new software applications with a diversity of language learning and teaching affordances. Study Skills Success, developed by Clarity Language Consultants Ltd, is one digital pedagogic interactive CALL software program designed for ESL/EFL learners' academic study skills that has grown quickly since its launch (and has recently been upgraded). It is adopted globally by the British Council according to the 2018 Clarity Guide to online English. It targets intermediate to advanced (B1-C1 according to Common European Framework of reference) teenage-to-adult learners of English at both high school and higher education levels. This all-in-one program functions as a comprehensive course in academic study skills; it focuses attention on the four language skills, grammar, vocabulary, critical thinking, independent learning, research, and visuals. Given the broad coverage of different language and study skills areas in the ten-unit syllabus it hosts, Study Skills Success can be used as a stand-alone, comprehensive study skills course - a course that suits both native speakers and non-native speakers of English alike. Not only does it serve as a comprehensive package for promoting autonomous test-taking strategies, but it also fits as an extensive, self-access remedial supplement to an existing EAP course or as a software program to build an academic course around.
Author: Nashwa Abdelkader Elyamany
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