Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and difficulty in these mapping operations....Loe edasi...
Punctuation Revisited is an advanced, comprehensive guide to the importance of punctuation in conveying meaning and augmenting the power of a message....Loe edasi...
With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse lo...Loe edasi...
English: An Essential Grammar is written specifically for native speakers, beginning with the basics and going on to deal with phrase, clause and sentence structure, word formation and spelling. This fully revised and updated third edition includes...Loe edasi...
Finnish: A Comprehensive Grammar presents a fresh, accessible and thorough description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Finnish....Loe edasi...
Sari: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2016, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781614512097)
This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the experience of foreign language faculty in American colleges and universities, the challenges they face, and ways that academia can better support language faculty, and marginalized faculty in other fields, in their important...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2012, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110289619)
Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2012, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110289657)
This is the first comprehensive description of Savosavo, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken by approximately 2,500 speakers on Savo Island, Solomon Islands....Loe edasi...
Sari: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2008, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110206982)
A collection that is dedicated to the notions of norms and standards in connection with the English language. It covers topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of Englis...Loe edasi...
This book is for newly qualified teachers and PGCE students of modern foreign languages. It covers the training standards for NQTS but goes beyond this with a focus on the subject expertise they bring into teaching....Loe edasi...
The book describes, in theory and through the presentation of empirical research, how we can develop learner autonomy and work towards reflective and communicative learners that are not afraid to experiment with language and language learning in CAL...Loe edasi...
Should you split infinitives? Can you end sentences with prepositions? Does the Queen speak the Queens English? This is practical and fun, to improve your writing for professional purposes or simply enjoy exploring the highways and byways of Englis...Loe edasi...
Mastering German Vocabulary explains how to use over 2,200 common German words correctly, using example sentences in German with English translations....Loe edasi...
Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy, Second Edition engages prospective and in-service teachers in learning about linguistically and culturally diverse students, and in using this knowledge to enrich literacy learning in classrooms and...Loe edasi...
Provides information on both speech and writing. This book not only gives information about the language as a whole, but also about the differences between spoken and written English, and between different spoken and written varieties of the languag...Loe edasi...
Recent research highlights the importance of an individuals own skills and attitudes to learning when studying a second language. A number of contributors explore the theory and practical application of such experiential learning....Loe edasi...
Brings together a set of papers that share the current theoretical interest in re-conceptualizing second & foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective, with practical concerns about second & foreign language pedagogy....Loe edasi...
This research-based overview of the types of 2nd-language programs found at the undergraduate level is the first to bring this info together in one vol. Premise is that the boundaries between these programs are no longer applicable in multilingual w...Loe edasi...
Written by experts, each chapter represents a personal account of a reading disorder through which details of the features of the disorder, methods used for testing, and theoretical accounts are illustrated....Loe edasi...
Designed to complement Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School, this book focuses specifically on the skills and processes of teaching mfl at A and A/S level in schools and colleges....Loe edasi...
This text aims to synthesize the state of research with regard to the teaching and testing of reading in a second language. It examines the psychology of reading, models of the reading process and various theories, and discusses the development of r...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the political, social, and educational implications of acquiring literacy skills in more than one language. For educators, theoretical and applied linguists, socio- and psycho-linguists, sociologists, and anthropologists....Loe edasi...
