Language Arts & Disciplines

Learn your world.Achieve more with Our World, Second Edition, a best-selling, seven-level series for young learners of English.Experience more of the real world with content that motivates learners to use English, including surprising photography, meaningful stories and readings, immersive video, and incredible National Geographic...

El arte de los nuevos medios, producido en la intersecci n con la ciencia y la tecnolog a, constituye la mayor parte de los fondos de un Museo de Arte Contempor neo. Sin embargo, la obsolescencia tecnol gica y la complejidad t cnica de...

"Buy the Payperback Version of this book and get the Kindle Book version for FREE"Do you want to know How to build an effective public speech? How to convince the audience and attract it to your side? What methods and techniques to apply?Even if...

Understanding Everyday Incivility delves into the day-to-day annoying behaviors that color our interactions with other people, such as the use of crude language in public, family members who claim that they're "just teasing" and we're "too sensitive," coworkers who constantly interrupt us, and inflammatory...

An all-in-one guide to understanding and managing the dark side of our digital lives. It all started out so well: the online world began as an effective tool for communication that carried with it a great promise to level the playing field and eliminate...

Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used...

Telling a story is one of the most basic--and difficult--challenges a fiction writer must face. Acclaimed author, editor, and literary agent Peter Rubie knows that challenge firsthand. Rubie's unique combination of experience as an author, agent and editor provides beginning writers with the advice...

If you are a parent, teaching assistant, early years practitioner or newly qualified speech pathologist/therapist, you will find this book useful to help children with unclear speech. It is packed full of resources, activities, and ideas to make therapy fun at home and at...

You Are Just 1-Click Away From Discovering How You Can Learn To Speak Spanish In As Little As 7 Days, Even If You've Never Spoken It Before Boasting of over 500 million speakers, 350 million of them being native speakers, Spanish is the second...

This manuscript explores the role that the four distinct attachment styles (secure, dismissive, preoccupied and fearful-avoidant) play "in determining how people communicate in their personal relationships." A better understanding of different communication behaviors can help coaches "facilitate tools and strategies for successful communication in...

Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters. It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people daily in the complex and changing worlds in which they live. It matters because it...

Grounded in history, theory, and empirical research studies, Strategic Media Relations in the Age of Information: An Evidence-Based Approach presents a clear and accessible overview of the modern practice of media relations. It focuses primarily on the development and strategic execution of media relations...

This book critically engages with theoretical shifts marked by the 'multilingual turn' in applied linguistics, and articulates the complexities associated with naming and engaging with the everyday language practices of bi/multilingual communities. It discusses methodological approaches that enable researchers and educators to observe and...

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, the story of social media from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring and beyond. Social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Cicero and other Roman...

To succeed in law, business, education, government, health care, and many other fields, it is becoming increasingly important to distinguish yourself as a savvy communicator. Social media has only accelerated the ways in which we all must learn to use our words to connect,...

This fully revised second edition of Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is a concise and contemporary reference grammar and workbook for intermediate-level students. The book contains clear explanations of the core areas of Russian grammar. Each point is illustrated with examples of...

WINNER of the 2021 British Association for Applied Linguistics Book prize It is well recognized that when people are living with a dementia, effective communication can be a challenge for both them and those they interact with. Despite a plethora of good advice, it...

Do you have a message for the world but are crippled by anxiety? Is fear of speaking in public holding you back from what you want out of life? Do you want to be recognised for your talent, but the thought of performing is...

This book explores the impact of the global spread of English on English language teaching and learning. It argues for the need for change in the way in which English is taught in order to reflect global realities and the latest research findings. The...

Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge...