Judith Schulten, Dallas, Texas

"I am sitting in an elementary classroom in Chapel Hill, NC, watching Sarah Shaw teach a class of eight 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders. Yesterday they all went to a concert, so today's class is centered o that experience. Right now the students are trying to remember the names of the instruments they saw. In front of each student is the page from Lexicarry with the musical instruments. They are looking carefully at the pictures, naming them. There is a certain excitement in the air. It's an amazing tribute to the book. They like it"!

Michael Jerald, School for International Training, at a student teacher observation

"I specially like the Lexicarry; I think it is an excellent way to teach children foreign languages".

Mary McGalardy. Shelby, Indiana

"Lexicarry is a very, very nice book"!

Megumi Aoki, San Francisco, California

"I am delighted with the Lexicarry. It's such a relief to run into a language teaching book with no words! I am teaching a Spanish course one night a week besides my ESL teaching in the day. Lexicarry brightens many a language classroom".

Lynn Gostyla, Worcester, Massachusetts

"Lexicarry fills a gap for a picture dictionary without words, and much, much more. Context, context, context from words to situations to operations to contextualized word categories to pictures with a story. The initial "situations" are a whole beginners course where learners and teachers can explore a range of appropriate language, and work towards role plays that mirror the pictures. The "operations" are a suggestion for "how to" lessons and learner-teacher created extensions. The contextualized "word categories" have endless mix and match possibilities, but my favorites are the "pictures with a story." The tipped over glass of wine and partially eaten dinner. The open window and a curtain blowing in the wind. Developed as lexical lessons with a context they draw in both learner and teacher to speculate on the story, and what might happen next...! One could only wish that a whole book of picture stories might emerge from Pat's pen as "Beyond Lexicarry."

David B. Hopkins,
TEFL International,
Rayong, Thailand

"It's probably going to look like I'm in cahoots with Prolingua Associates, but their "Lexicarry" text and related Web site, http://www.lexicarry.com , are fantastic resources built around comic strips and cartoon characters created by Patrick Moran. This is a classic for those teaching overseas, and they brought out a color edition in 2002. The Lexicarry Web site has vocabulary and phrase lists in about 5 different languages to go along with the Lexicarry cartoons, which show typical language functions and situations."

Enjoy, Robb Scott Assistant Professor of Special Education/ESOL Fort Hays State University
785-628-5568 / rbscott@fhsu.edu