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 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 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 a 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 practice, assessment, and tools.
- Our 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.
Download a list of New Interactions ISBNs.
Sample Chapters
Tools to support diverse learners & build engagement
“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."
Don't just take our word for it - Read this case study to know more about how New Interactions has supported Georgios' teaching and his students' learning.
Support for Teachers
McGraw Hill is committed to ensuring our customers are comfortable using our products. To that end, we’ll be on hand to support you getting up-to-speed with New Interactions through:
- Product-orientation training
- On-site training*
- Professional development webinars
- A robust, in-depth Methodology Guide and Teacher Manual to help you get the most out of the suite of features New Interactions contains
*On-site training where resource is available.
Thought Leadership Articles
6 ways New Interactions addresses online learning issues
New studies have shown that students who participated in online learning retain six times more material than their class-based counterparts. However, although online learning is here to stay, it is not without its difficulties.
The 2021 school year had teachers improvising solutions to keep students engaged and learning while online. The patchwork assembly highlighted many of the challenges that teachers and students face while learning English online.
Removing learning barriers for success in EAP
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is one of the most challenging areas of study in English Language Teaching.
In this article, series editor and lead author of McGraw Hill’s revised New Interactions series, Danae Kozanoglou, shares her thoughts on some of the core challenges instructors face whilst teaching EAP and how she and her team have developed the New Interactions resources to support learners and break down barriers to success.
Webinars
Developing Students’ Confidence in Speaking and Writing
This webinar offers practical tasks for developing students’ academic speaking and writing skills. The tasks are interactive and persuasive and build students’ critical thinking skills and confidence at different levels. They cover techniques for motivating students to research and deliver short presentations, strategies for asking and answering critical questions, and frameworks for analysing a familiar or new topic in preparation for students’ spoken and written texts.
Foundation Programmes Post-COVID: Some Challenges and Solutions
This webinar tackles some of the key challenges foundation-year instructors, particularly English language professors, are facing as they transition from remote and hybrid learning to face-to-face learning. It addresses how to overcome the ‘lost’ months of high-school study and the skills that learners need beyond the English language and sometimes complex transition from school to the tertiary education environment.
21st Century Skills and Academic English Opportunties
In this webinar you will learn more about 21st century skills and how these skills can be integrated in English language learning. It will talk about the importance for students to acquire these skills and prepare them for the real world, especially for students in the foundation year or preparatory year programmes. The session will also cover some challenges experienced while introducing them in the learning context and explore solutions.
The Greening of ELT: An overview and some classroom ideas
This talk has two sections. In the first, Christopher Graham will look at some of the ways we contribute to the climate crisis through the ways we operate in our institutions and beyond, and suggest some ideas to reduce our negative impact on the environment. The second part of the talk will be led by Katherine Bilsborough who will look at the opportunities we have in our classrooms to explore and integrate climate-related themes into our teaching.
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