Language Arts & Disciplines

Debates about literacy and how it can best be improved are never far from media headlines. However, relatively little consideration is given to the role that school libraries and their staff play in building and maintaining student literacy, despite research linking school libraries and...

New title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. Perfect as a gift, or an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers,...

The struck-out word "literally" is printed before "figuratively" on the title page.Author: Mark AbleyPublisher: Simon & SchusterPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.20h x 5.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9781501172281About the AuthorAbley, Mark: - Mark Abley is an award-winning poet, journalist, and author. His books include...

This volume presents fifty-two stories from the institutional archive of Oxford University, which holds records spanning just over eight hundred years. Established in 1634 and based in the Bodleian Library, the Archives of Oxford University document the University's activities and decisions throughout that time....

Sociocultural research has long recognized the necessity of sustained interpersonal interaction for language development. However, less is known about the underlying relationships that promote language acquisition and their relevance for language classrooms. Presenting cutting-edge research on social networks and their applications in language teaching,...

**Winner of the Communications and Sales Book of the Year and Winner of Cover Design at the Australian Business Book Awards 2022**Learn how spoken words can change a mind, a community and the world with this collection of remarkable speeches by women What She...

Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what...

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It guides students through all of the major areas of investigation, beginning with the fundamental aspects of brain structure and function and then...

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. - Pictures support the story clearly - Text in different colors makes it easier to follow...

Author: X. GreyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.59h x 5.54w x 0.25dISBN: 9780175663873

An important resource for scholarly research, grey literature is relevant to every discipline. It's also often more current than commercial publications. Unfortunately, though it provides a richness of content, this type of scholarly resource is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to...

This bestselling textbook, now fully updated, introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. Written by one of the world's leading researchers in Interpreting Studies, Introducing Interpreting Studies covers interpreting in all its varied forms, from international conference to community-based...

Author: Braithwaite-WoodPublisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyPublished: 05/28/2015Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 7.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9780757572739This title is not returnable

There has never been more opportunity, more options, more pathways for writers. But with choice come potential pitfalls, traps, and career-limiting plays. Some of the perils writers might encounter on their writing and publishing journey come from nefarious operators seeking to prey on the...

The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive desk reference providing the essential principles, skills, and knowledge to manage special collections in any setting and covering all aspects of special collections work: preservation; developing collections; understanding objects; emergency planning; security; legal and ethical...

Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern Guatemala, a unique speech sound, unknown in any other language, in the Nivaclé language of Paraguay and Argentina,...

End Your Grammar Insecurity Forever! Are you the student going back to school after some time away and finding yourself anxious about grammar, usage and punctuation? Are you the business professional who has to get the grammar right-and who's been embarrassed once or twice...

Anyone who has ever traveled knows the challenge of language barriers. These are caused by the different languages and dialects across the world. Perhaps the solution to those barriers lies within this book.This is an entry-level text for learning the language of Esperanto. Unlike...

New title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. Perfect as a gift, or an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers,...

If you were to write a book about your Life, what would the title be? If you burst into song every time someone met you, what song would you sing? "Your Story Is Your Clout! Your Voice Is Your Power!" is a book that...