ENG 099 Conversational American English Course Reserve
This course reserve was made to help adult English students improve their skills by studying independently, with their peers in an English Club, and/or as students in a class. You can download it for free or pay more if you would like to support Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory, LLC publishing zero dollar Open Educational Resources (OER).
ENG 099 was chosen because many colleges in the United States of America (USA) start with ENG 101 as their introductory English course. This was designed to help students prepare for those courses and/or to help with English for working in the USA. This digital file includes OER separated into PDF (Portable Document Format) files.
Specifically it is designed for English-Language Learners (ELLs) as well as adult students studying:
- English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
- English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- English as a new language (ENL)
There is also a guide for how the course reserve can be utilized by the instructors listed below with students around the "Basic User" CEFR A2 range from A1 and up to B1.
- Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
- Teaching English as a Foreign language (TEFL)
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- English Language Teachers (ELT)
It contains
- Student Guide to Course Reader
- Instructor Guide to Course Reader
- ENG 099 Conversational American English TextbookVersion 1.2 is only available here and released fresh in November 2025, a slimmed down version of Version 1.1 that was included on pages 34 to 60 of The Uncertainty Principle 'zine: Volume Orange Issue Four “Over the Horizon”. (Download from official website and/or The Internet Archive)
- Lesson materials from teaching the ENG 099 MOOC I taught an open online course via a blog my own website and on Wikiversity.
- FUN WITH ENGLISH (FWE) 7B & 8B: Unofficial Teacher's HandbookA compilation of my lesson plans put on Wikiversity into teacher's guide for ELTs in China (Open Library Identifier: OL24606597M) with a print edition available from PediaPress.
- Collaborative Lesson Planning
Depending on your lexical preferences, rather than a course reserve you may prefer to think of this as an E-Reserve, Course Pack, Coursepack, and/or Sourcebook.
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