Maria Ammar, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

By Fabiana Stalnaker, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

The purpose of ESL Readers and Writers in Higher Education: Understanding Challenges, Providing Support is to describe the challenges ESL students face in the classroom and offer suggestions aimed at helping ESL learners achieve optimal writing and reading proficiency. This volume provides tools to address the literacy needs of ESL students. Read More

By Daniel Clausen, Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Nagasaki, Japan

What is liberal education and how can it help us navigate the troubled waters of the 21st century? To answer these questions, I returned to a spirited defense of liberal education, Fareed Zakaria’s In Defense of Liberal Education. Though the book provides important background, key information, and outlines important themes in the debate, it is not by itself comprehensive. Nevertheless, its spirited defense of liberal education makes it a good entry point into a very necessary debate. Read More