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Michael Dyer

Michael Dyer

Michael Dyer is an Australian author and language educator with more than 30 years of teaching experience. Based in Tokyo, he holds postgraduate qualifications in Applied Linguistics and Education from Monash University and has taught at several Japanese universities.

He is the author of more than 20 ESL textbooks, including the Discussion & Debate, Business Communication, Perfect Pronunciation, and Immersive Reading: Read, Reflect, and Discover series. His books focus on practical communication, critical thinking, and meaningful real-world language use.

Through ESL Learning Press, Michael develops textbooks and digital teaching resources designed to make learning more engaging for students and to give teachers practical, flexible tools for the classroom.

Books by Michael Dyer

Michael Dyer

Immersive Reading

Read, Reflect, and Discover: Book 2 – Discussion Builders

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Immersive Reading

Read, Reflect, and Discover: Book 2 – Discussion Builders

Immersive Reading – Read, Reflect, and Discover: Book 2 – Discussion Builders

Immersive Reading – Read, Reflect, and Discover: Book 2 – Discussion Builders extends every reading unit with structured discussion activities and comprehension quizzes. Students strengthen comprehension, speaking, analytical thinking, and evidence-based response skills while exploring the main textbook’s themes.

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: 48 Lessons

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: 48 Lessons

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: 48 Lessons

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: 48 Lessons develops accurate English pronunciation and listening discrimination through 48 structured lessons. Students learn to distinguish similar sounds, produce English phonemes accurately, recognize differences in spoken language, and understand pronunciation features ranging from individual vowels and consonants to stress, sound changes, and connected speech.

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 1

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 1

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 1

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 1 introduces the foundations of English pronunciation through focused listening and speaking practice. Students work with short and long vowels, voiced and voiceless consonants, nasal sounds, sibilants, plosives, and common consonant blends while learning to recognize and accurately produce important English sound contrasts.

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 2

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 2

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 2

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 2 develops pronunciation and listening through increasingly complex English sound patterns. Students work with diphthongs, r-controlled vowels, near homophones, syllable stress, consonant clusters, /l/ and /r/ distinctions, and word-final /s/ and /z/ while improving their ability to recognize and produce subtle phonetic contrasts.

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 3

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 3

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 3

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 3 develops advanced pronunciation and listening skills through more complex features of English speech. Students work with vowel shifts, consonant clusters, palatal sounds, schwa, allophonic variation, linking, voicing contrasts, and aspiration while improving both listening discrimination and accurate production of sound patterns found in natural spoken English.

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 4

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Perfect Pronunciation

Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 4

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 4

Perfect Pronunciation – Phonology & Listening Exercises: Level 4 develops advanced pronunciation through the stress patterns and sound changes found in connected English speech. Students work with compound-word stress, contractions, reductions, assimilation, reduced vowels, glottal stops, silent letters, lexical stress, and pronunciation changes in derived and borrowed words through focused listening and speaking practice.

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TV Ad English & Strategy

Discussion & Role-Play: Level 1

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TV Ad English & Strategy

Discussion & Role-Play: Level 1

TV Ad English & Strategy – Discussion & Role-Play: Level 1

TV Ad English & Strategy – Discussion & Role-Play: Level 1 develops speaking, listening, critical-thinking, and presentation skills through television advertisements from international brands. Across 12 units, students examine storytelling, target audiences, branding, persuasive communication, humor, emotional appeals, and jingles while analyzing advertising strategies and discussing how companies communicate products, ideas, and brand identities.

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