Quest Second Edition prepares students for academic success. The series features two complementary strands - Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking - each with four levels. The integrated Quest Second Edition program provides robust scaffolding to support and accelerate each student`s journey from exploring general interest topics to mastering academic content. Feature`s: - Listening and speaking strategies guide students to develop effective academic listening and note-taking skills, and encourage them to interact,meaningfully with instructors and fellow students; - Critical thinking and test-taking strategies teach students to use inferencing, synthesizing, and other skills to tackle complex issues, and prepare them to perform well on standardized tests; - Gradual curve in each chapter from social language, to broadcast English, and then academic listening ensures student success as they engage in increasingly more difficult material;