New Interactions is a five-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) series for students at, or preparing to go to, a college, university or other higher education institution where teaching is through the medium of English, and/or there is a requirement to study English as part of their course.
Globally, New Interactions has been one of the most recognized and respected EAP series since its initial creation almost 30 years ago. The course is built on solid pedagogy and best practice principles, combined with ground-breaking technology provided by McGraw Hill’s award-winning Connect® platform. New Interactions can be used with or without Connect, but the fully integrated online course offers a truly rich, stimulating, and flexible environment that expands students' learning and supports teachers' teaching. Both language learning and academic skills development are fully supported with automatically graded practice, assessment tools, a bank of videos, and multiple assignment opportunities that enable students to practice and consolidate their learning.
New Interactions features two strands, covering the complimentary receptive and productive skills involved in Reading & Writing and Listening & Speaking, exposing students to more materials and practice than integrated-skills books.
- Encouraging curiosity so students can enjoy the adventure of discovery.
- Embracing diversity by respecting unique abilities, learning styles, and aims.
- Maximizing potential through well-scaffolded, flexible learning options.
- Realizing success with personalized learning pathways, and adaptive resources.
- Dual function: comprehensive, skilfully crafted English language syllabus together with presentation and practice of essential academic skills.
- Comprehensive scaffolding plus hints, and tips throughout.
- Digital and blended teaching solutions, incorporating print, eBook, and digital.
- Interactive eBooks for each strand and level are available both online and offline.
- Videos featuring grammar, study skills, 21st-century skills, college readiness and career readiness.
- Online resources for self-study and assessment.
- Adaptive Learning Assignments ensure personalised learning.
- Dedicated online assignments supporting student success and student well-being.
- Application Based Activities provide authentic assessment and experiential learning capabilities.
- Power of Process tool to develop a critical analysis of reading texts.
- Pre-built, auto-graded, customizable assessments.
- Reporting and analytics from Connect give insight into engagement and achievement.
- Audio recordings for every reading text, conversation, and vocabulary activity.
- Reading and Writing & Listening and Speaking books for each level.
- Grammar and language in every book.
New Interactions has been carefully designed to
- Engage students with content and topics that are current, relevant, and entirely relatable.
- Activate students' prior knowledge to aid comprehension, engagement, and learning retention.
- Help students develop critical thinking, research, and reporting skills alongside their language skills.
- Systematically teach students learning strategies essential to academic success.
- Support students in progressing to more autonomous learning and self-assessment.
- Build vocabulary through a focus on lexical strategies and high-frequency words in context.
- Teach students how to organize key information and ideas through graphic organizers.
New Interactions is for students…
- Studying in an academic environment, where lessons are taught in English.
- About to move into higher education, English-medium setting such as a college or university.
- At a college, university or other higher education institution where teaching is in English and/or there is a requirement to study English as part of their course.
- Who want to both improve their English ability and prepare for further study through English in an academic setting.
- McGraw Hill’s Connect platform supports both students and instructors with auto-graded practise, assessment, and tools.
- McGraw Hill ReadAnywhere® app lets students access content from their mobile phone or tablet, for online or offline study.
- Adaptive Learning Assignment resources provide students with a personalized learning pathway, with assignments continually adapting to the individual.
- Application Based Activities provide authentic assessment and experiential learning capabilities.
- Power of Process provides a rich library of resource materials to help students develop essential academic skills related to reading.
Georgios Kormpas, Al Yamamah University
“It’s not just a textbook, it’s a teaching method!”
“I haven’t found something that allows for so much to be in one place. Like if you want to give extra work to your students – then you can! If you want to stretch your students – you can!”
Georgios Kormpas, Al Yamamah University
Georgios initially undertook the rollout of New Interactions with a small selection of students. Noting that the pilot was successful, Georgios then scaled up his implementation of New Interactions. He shared how New Interactions helped combat some of his challenges:
Modern and Engaging Content - “I could see that learners could relate to the content and the topics and I was impressed.”
Intuitive Digital Tools - “If they’re using digital, they don’t even need to have a printed copy of the book, which is great.”
Data and Reporting - He is frequently “checking their progress” and able to “send a reminder to those students who haven’t completed the activities."
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