Language Arts & Disciplines

A robust vocabulary improves all areas of communication - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Vocabulary is critical to a child's success for these reasons: ... Vocabulary helps children to think and learn about the world. Expanding a child's knowledge of words provides unlimited access...

A robust vocabulary improves all areas of communication - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Vocabulary is critical to a child's success for these reasons: ... Vocabulary helps children to think and learn about the world. Expanding a child's knowledge of words provides unlimited access...

A robust vocabulary improves all areas of communication - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Vocabulary is critical to a child's success for these reasons: ... Vocabulary helps children to think and learn about the world. Expanding a child's knowledge of words provides unlimited access...

Easy and Captivating Short Stories to Improve Your Russian Vocabulary and Reading Skills!Are you a beginner learner of Russian who wants to practise reading the language but finds that most of the learning material out there is too high-level for you? If so, this...

When our connected world should be bringing us closer together‭, ‬polarised opinions and dysfunctional conversations are pushing us further apart‭. ‬The Art of Discussion has never been more important‭. ‬In an entertaining and thought-provoking style‭, ‬this book‭ ‬considers some controversial topics in a way...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL)Level 3 - A2/B1 Intermediate (1)Word count: 5,034Lincoln lives with his mother in a small town in Texas. His life is quiet and lonely. He wants to find old friends, so he searches for them on Facebook....

Equips students and professionals with the fundamental skills and knowledge needed to succeed in investor relations and financial communication Investor Relations and Financial Communication is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the investor relations and financial communication profession. Written by a leading educator and professional...

The Natural Speaker is a friendly step-by-step guide to public speaking that explores the fundamental skills necessary to present a natural and rewarding speech to any audience. By providing an overview of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this book is designed to enhance and...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish, as preserved in texts from Spain from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. After discussing general methodological questions concerning thedescription and...

Captivating Short Stories to Improve Your German Vocabulary and Reading Skills!Are you an intermediate learner of German who wants to practise reading the language but finds that most of the learning material out there is too easy or too high-level for you? If so,...

Learn How to Improve Your Listening Skills and Discover the Secrets of Effective CommunicationRelationships are at the heart of our human experience. Think about it-no matter where you go, what you do, or what your beliefs are, relationships influence your life.In both personal and...

APEX Test Prep's SHSAT Specialized High School Admissions Prep: Study Guide and NYC SHSAT Practice Test Questions [Book Includes Detailed Answer Explanations]APEX Test Prep believes that preparing for the SHSAT exam shouldn't be harder than the test itself.To that end, we pack our products...

Realize All That Is Possible in Your Fiction Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning--be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy,...

Covering the Border War: How the News Media Create Crime, Race, Nation, and the USA-Mexico Divide examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse,...

An introduction to the the range of current theoretical approaches to the prosody of spoken utterances, with practical applications of those theories. Prosody is an extremely dynamic field, with a rapid pace of theoretical development and a steady expansion of its influence beyond linguistics...

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction. Among the number of multidisciplinary and comparative studies of the structure and organization of language and music, the presented book broadens the scope...

The thought of speaking in public strikes fear in the hearts of many. But we are often called upon to speak, teach, preach, or make presentations in our work and personal lives. In Speaking Well, Adam Hamilton offers nineteen powerful tips and tactics that...

Pragmatic Particles sheds new light on the linguistic theory and application of Asian languages with a particular focus on the role of particles and their socio-pragmatic nature. Drawing on a range of data that spans Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Turkish and beyond, the multidimensionality...

The ongoing digitization of culture and society and the ongoing production of new digital objects in culture and society require new ways of investigation, new theoretical avenues, and new multidisciplinary frameworks. In order to meet these requirements, this collection of eleven studies digs into...

2021 IsiZulu Standardisation, Spelling Rules and Orthography is a revised and improved version of the 2008 edition. The book includes the history and beginning of the development of isiZulu spelling rules and orthography and highlights the role of isiZulu academics and missionaries in the...