Language Arts & Disciplines

This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical...

Shakespeare's First Folio is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, published in 1623 as Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. The contents of the book were compiled after Shakespeare's death by his friends and colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell, both actors...

Transformative learning has been widely used in the field of adult education for over twenty years, but until recently has received little attention in the field of world languages. Drawing on best practices and the research of distinguished international world language experts, this volume...

Language tests play pivotal roles in education, research on learning, and gate-keeping decisions. The central concern for language testing professionals is how to investigate whether or not tests are appropriate for their intended purposes. This book introduces an argument-based validity framework to help with...

Published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who are curious about the business of writing. The names of T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath...

"Éléments de grammaire comparée dans cinq langues romanes: portugais, espagnol, français, italien, roumain - un schéma de l'intercompréhension est un manuel où cinq langues romanes sont comparées côte à côte, à l'aide de tableaux, visant à l'intercompréhension entre les locuteurs natifs d'un ou plusieurs...

Ingl s simplificado: habla ingl s con fluidez con conversaciones de la vida real y frases cotidianas para principiantesTe gustaria: Entiende f cilmente las conversaciones en ingl s? Desarrollar confianza al hablar con nativos? Viaja al extranjero y habla ingl s en lugar de...

The Fast Newbie Guide for Fluently Speaking Italian from Absolute Beginner in Just a Few WeeksWould you like to: Speak Italian in a matter of weeks? Understand conversations and be able to join? Travel abroad and not worry about the language barrier? But you:...

Ingl s simplificado: habla ingl s con fluidez con conversaciones de la vida real y frases cotidianas para principiantesTe gustaria: Entiende f cilmente las conversaciones en ingl s? Desarrollar confianza al hablar con nativos? Viaja al extranjero y habla ingl s en lugar de...

Conflict and Communication acknowledges the inevitable presence of conflict in our lives and the role good communication plays in managing conflict to cultivate a healthier, happier existence. The book explores the ways in which we process and act on conflict, as well as how...

In recent years, we have mourned the deaths of many of the most prominent scholars in Chinese calligraphy and painting working in the United States. Many other scholars have retired. It is time for us to celebrate their scholarship and the American contribution to...

21st Century Literacy for Middle and Secondary Students introduces readers to instructional ideas and approaches that have shown to be effective in supporting literacy development of students in grades 5 through 12. The opening chapter reviews the methods used by publishers to assign a...

This book is intended as a practical guide for those who wish to win arguments. It also teaches how to perpetrate fallacies w ith mischief at heart and malice aforethought.Author: Madsen PiriePublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 12/25/2020Pages: 198Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.45dISBN:...

Sanskrit has an amazing ability to place words anywhere in a sentence, without any punctuation, and yet keep the meaning intact. This is due to its inflectional system of grammar. However, in English, the placement of words is rather fixed.What does it mean? Firstly...

This book examines the writing practices of three adult multilingual writers through the prism of their writing in English as an additional language. It illustrates some of the social, cultural and political contexts of the writers' literacy activities and discusses how these impact their...

This book examines critical literacy within language and literacy learning, with a particular focus on English as an Additional Language learners in schools who traditionally are not given the same exposure to critical literacy as native-English speakers. An important and innovative addition to extant...

Las teor as de la Restauraci n se muestran como diferentes puntos de vista para la Restauraci n del Arte; sin embargo, esto supone cometer un error de tipificaci n l gica porque, aunque el arte "tradicional", el arte contempor neo, el arte de...

Leading Your Audience: A Systematic Approach to Public Speaking is designed to prepare students to lead as public speakers in the classroom and beyond. The text increases readers' understanding of the principles and processes of communicating effectively in public situations. As students participate in...

You can write a book-anyone can.But if you want to write a book that people will want or even need to read, it's not as simple as sitting down to write. In fact, that's one of the biggest mistakes unsuccessful authors make.Writing a book...

Kurdish Picture Dictionary - Sorani from RUMAN is an immersive tool to effectively teach vocabulary in context strategies. The dictionary is a foldout collection of 24 colorfully illustrated posters. Each poster targets a particular subject and is surrounded by images and vocabulary of the...