Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of vocabularyUnderstanding vocabulary is essential for your child to read and write with confidence.
Shape up your English with thousands of idiomsWhether you are a learner of English who is having difficulty understanding expressions in everyday speech or a native speaker who wants to expand your written or spoken range, you need a comprehensive reference for idioms, common phrases, and sayings of American English.
The bestselling Spanish-English dictionary perfect for home, school, and workThe Vox Super-Mini Spanish and English Dictionary has helped Spanish-language learners read, write, and understand this popular language more successfully than any other portable dictionary on the market.
Written by noted AP photographer and photoeditor Brian Horton, this is an insider's manual to one of the most glamorous and exciting media professions.
An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily.
What you need to build your German lexicon as well as your confidence in communicating in the languageGerman Vocabulary Drills provides a thematic approach by presenting clusters of essential terms.
Decode the mystery of English grammar to add polish to your papers, emails, business letters, and moreEnglish Grammar Demystified teaches the fundamentals of the subject in an easy, step-by-step approach that allows you to learn at your own pace.
This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition.
With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress.
Award-winning screenwriters reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology through interviews with world-renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter.
Las habilidades investigativas, en las que se concentra esta obra titulada Metodología de investigación: triángulos para su construcción, son clasificadas en: a) habilidades básicas de investigación, las cuales son específicas según la ciencia a abordar y su diálogo con el paradigma de la investigación: empírico-analítico, hermenéutico o sociocrítico; b) habilidades para problematizar, teorizar y comprobar la realidad como centro y contexto de estudio; c) habilidades metodológicas, de percepción, instrumentales, de pensamiento, de construcción conceptual, de construcción metodológica, de construcción social del conocimiento y metacognitivas, y d) habilidades de sistematización y difusión del conocimiento científico.
A one-of-a-kind handbook that uses a day in the life of written English to illustrate the benefits of effective grammarGenerations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "e;This is the correct form.
Get ready for your AP English Language exam with this straightforward, easy-to-follow study guideThe wildly popular test prep guide updated and enhanced for smartphone users 5 Steps to a 5: AP English Language 2017 provides a proven strategy to achieving high scores on this demanding Advanced Placement exam.
With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts.
The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to reflect recent work on the applications of the theory.
This edited book focuses on the state of language learning in Anglophone countries and brings together international research from a wide range of educational settings.
Packed with contemporary examples from the business world, this is an exciting and engaging text which explains how language works in business, how to analyse it and how to use it in an informed and creative way.
In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres.
This book explores language teacher development in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environments and discusses approaches, tasks and resources that can guide language teachers to develop their skills and strategies for technology-enhanced language teaching (TELT).
This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration.
A memoir from the beloved author behind the multimillion-copy bestselling A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Handler's memoir, although subtle, ironic and full of dry wit, still pulses with that same childlike enthusiasm for books.
Dieser Band entwickelt das Konzept der Handlungsorientierung in fremdsprachendidaktischer wie bildungstheoretischer Hinsicht weiter: Lernende als autonom agierende Individuen mit je unterschiedlichen (Sprachlern-)Biographien werden mit ihrer kulturellen Identität und ihrem sprachlichen Handeln in den Mittelpunkt gerückt.
This book explores many of the unanswered questions surrounding the original and eponymous Lingua Franca, a language spoken by peoples across the Mediterranean and North Africa for nearly three centuries.
This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking.
This edited book examines the phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in the Japanese context, using multilingualism as a lens through which to explore language practices and attitudes in what is traditionally viewed as a monolingual, monocultural setting.
