Language Arts & Disciplines

Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award, The Church/Pastoral Leadership We know of the preacher's roles as both teacher and proclaimer, but Jeffrey Arthurs adds another assignment: the Lord's remembrancer. The remembrancer stirs the memory of Christ-followers, reminding them of the truths they...

No function of the pastor is as visible and stress inducing as preaching. Being a good preacher requires learning the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical skills needed to effectively share God's word with a congregation. It demands a commitment to the craft of preaching....

Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians collects the experiences and approaches of librarians who teach reading. In two volumes, librarians share their role in teaching reading--using pedagogical theories and techniques in new and interesting ways, making implicit reading knowledge, skills, and techniques...

'O si Manu a Ali'i is the first comprehensive guide for teachers of Samoan oratory and the Samoan language of respect. It is also an authoritative resource book for students of the language. The author's insightful descriptions of Samoan culture provide the necessary social...

Making Sense of Japanese Grammar explains in a lively and highly informative manner basic principles that underlie a wide range of phenomena in Japanese. Students--irrespective of proficiency level and linguistic training--will find clarification on matters of grammar that often seem idiosyncratic and Japanese-specific, such...

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman...

Beginning Japanese is a complete Japanese textbook and language learning package for beginning learners -- who want to become fluent in Japanese and have fun while doing it! Start speaking, reading and writing Japanese today with the most exciting new introduction to the Japanese...

This is a compact and user-friendly English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary. The Tuttle Compact Chinese Dictionary is a completely new reference dictionary designed for English speakers who are learning or using Chinese as a foreign language. It contains more than 48,000 words and expressions, including...

Everything you need to learn 1,000 critical Vietnamese words and phrases quickly and efficiently is in this box 200 hole-punched flash cards feature the most commonly-used words and related phrases Free online audio with native-speaker recordings of over 1,000 Vietnamese words and sentences A...

Five minutes a day is all it takes to begin learning Japanese With Beginning Japanese Kanji Language Practice Pad, anyone can master the 334 basic kanji along with 1,000 frequently used words in just minutes a day Ideal for beginning Kanji learners, this informative...

This Japanese language workbook was created as supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese. A workbook which is best used for reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and learning materials introduced in the textbook, it is also designed to function as a standalone comprehensive workbook. Some of...

Concise and user-friendly, Easy Mandarin Chinese is designed for anyone who wants to learn Mandarin Chinese--whether on their own or with a teacher. This language learning book introduces the learner to all the basics of the Chinese language and teaches practical daily conversations and...

This is a user-friendly and comprehensive beginner Indonesian book and a great way to learn Indonesian. Divided into 28 graded lessons, Basic Indonesian provides fill-in-the-blank exercises, quizzes, word puzzles and question-and-answer practices to reinforce Indonesian language learning. Extensive cultural notes are provided along with...

A great way to study Chinese, flash cards remain an accessible, efficient tool for rapid memorization, and Tuttle's flash cards are the best available today. The front of each card gives one Chinese character. On the reverse is as much information as a dictionary...

A simple introduction to Chinese writing, pronunciation and intonation using short stories. Appropriate for beginner Chinese students of all ages. Reading basic Chinese becomes simplified in this highly attractive and unique manual designed for readers of all ages. Chinese writing, pronunciation, and vocabulary are...

The human voice does not deceive. The one who is speaking is inevitably revealed by the singular sound of her voice, no matter what she says. We take this fact for granted--for example, every time someone asks, over the telephone, Who is speaking? and...

This is the first volume of a two-volume work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. The central claim of cognitive grammar is that grammar forms a continuum with lexicon and is fully describable in terms of...

So You Want to Write about American Indians? is the first of its kind-an indispensable guide for anyone interested in writing and publishing a novel, memoir, collection of short stories, history, or ethnography involving the Indigenous peoples of the United States. In clear language...

Introduction to Chinese-English Translation is the first book published in the U.S. that addresses how to translate from Chinese into English. Part One discusses basic issues in translation. Part Two introduces ten essential skills with the help of actual translation examples. Part Three deals...

This second edition (9780778804512) replaces the first edition (9780778801634) Now with 100 additional American Sign Language (ASL) symbols plus more case studies. The interest surrounding baby signing continues to increase as more and more parents embrace this special world of communication, which allows babies...