Language Arts & Disciplines

The 3rd edition of this invaluable anthology features eight new essays, including six in the new technology section, "Virtual Talk: Composing Beyond the Word." Edited by Victor Villanueva and Kristin L. Arola. For the third edition of Cross-Talk in Comp Theory, Victor Villanueva recruited...

Synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications. Contemporary genre theory is probably not what you learned in college. Its dynamic focus on writing as a social activity in response to a particular situation makes it a powerful...

Susanne Rubenstein shows how to focus on voice in the teaching of writing to help students take ownership of their work, enjoy what they're writing, and produce writing that shows depth of thought and originality of expression. As writing instruction becomes more standardized and...

Concise summary of the major schools of thought about African American English and how it may influence the teaching and learning of writing. Writing teachers across the United States struggle daily with the question of how to assist students who speak what has been...

Kerschbaum provides a detailed analysis of diversity rhetoric and the ways institutions of higher education market diversity in and through student bodies. Unlike much current writing studies research, Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference addresses conversations about diversity in higher education, institutional racism, and...

Engaging with critical questions such as What counts as language? and How can I know when a student is struggling with language?, Melinda J. McBee Orzulak explores how mainstream ELA teachers might begin to understand language in new ways to benefit both English language...

Lonely Planet's Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Spanish phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order tapas with confidence, ask directions to the local flamenco and mingle with locals over...

We hate to tell you this (truly!), but writing is hard. Ok, we lied. It's not the writing that's hard, it's the becoming a successful author that's hard.We're authors; we get it. We've been in the trenches and we've seen it all, from selling...

Es gab schon immer viele gute Gründe, sich intensiv mit Kommunikation zu beschäftigen, seit Corona wird diese Beschäftigung jedoch zwingend notwendig. Was den Leser erwartet Dieses Buch bietet fundierte und praxisorientierte Anleitungen, eine echte Verbindung zum Gegenüber zu finden und Brücken zu Menschen mit...

Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It encompasses approximately twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China. These languages are distributed over an enormous area that ranges from the Yenisey River and Xinjiang in the west to the...

Author: David McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/30/2022Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 9.69h x 6.61w x 1.10dISBN: 9781009200844

When readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original, and most prolific, fake news writers in the early years of Nevada's...

I didn't decide to write this book out of some noble dedication to the field of journalism. Or to revitalize "the good old days" by recapturing the past. Or tell a great story or two while singing the praises of newspapers. God knows, the...

The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars,...

The spread of English as a global language has resulted in the emergence of a number of related fields of research within applied linguistics, including English as an International Language, English as a Lingua Franca, and World Englishes. Here, Heath Rose and Nicola Galloway...

How do you pronounce biopic, synod, and Breughel? - and why? Do our cake and archaic sound the same? Where does the stress go in stalagmite? What's odd about the word epergne? Pontcysyllte is obviously Welsh, but Penge is Welsh too How cool is...

This volume outlines the general principles of Learning Oriented Assessment (LOA), placing it in the context of European language learning policy. The authors pose three key questions central to LOA: 'What is learning?', 'What is to be learned?' and 'What is to be assessed?'....

Eduard Sievers (1850 - 1932), als Mediävist und Linguist durch das so genannte "Sieversche Gesetz" (indogermanisches Lautgesetz) international beachtet, liefert mit vorliegendem Werk einen profunden Überblick zum Thema. Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1893.Author: Eduard SieversPublisher: Literaricon VerlagPublished: 10/11/2022Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize:...

Der Schweizer Sprachwissenschaftler, Volkskundler und Sprachphilosoph Johann Ludwig Tobler (1827 - 1895) wurde v. a. als Mitbegründer des "Schweizerischen Idiotikons" bekannt. Daneben hatte er auch ein gro es Interesse an Volkspoesie, wofür der hier vorliegende zweite Band beredtes Zeugnis ablegt. Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus...

This comprehensive guide will help you master the Palmer Method of writing so you can achieve perfect cursive handwriting. In a series of rapid, plain, unshaded, coarse-pen writing lessons, this guide will enable you to adopt a neat cursive writing style with rhythmic motions....