Language learning: specific skills

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Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal.

This updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writing, and it includes new sections on writing and English language learners, technology, and the writing process.

When travelling, do you want to journey off the English-speaking path, meet people and communicate easily?

Dieses Buch ist Band 3 des Ersten Russischen Lesebuches für Anfänger.

With I'm Not from Here, popular writer Will Willimon returns to fiction with a story of spiritual discovery set in a Southern town.

The method that's helped thousands in the U.

Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.

The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities.

Originally published in the 1920s.

This volume, grounded on usage-based models of language, is an edited collection of empirical research examining how cognitive linguistics can advance Japanese pedagogy.

This massive text is the ultimate authoritative book on learning Japanese Kanji.

This is a complete and easy-to-use guide for reading and writing Chinese characters.

Complete Korean is a comprehensive language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level.

Diese Ausgabe ist mit großen farbigen Bildern illustriert.

Video games are a major source of contact to English language and culture, and the need to develop critical video game competency is high.

Anyone who has ever traveled knows the challenge of language barriers.

If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid cliches (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers.

We'll See, originally published in France in 1995 as On Verra Bien by le de bleu, is Georges L.

The annual, bestselling guide to all aspects of the media and how to write and illustrate for children and young adults.

Most people experience some difficulty with writing formal or technical papers.

The use of creative writing as a route to personal or professional development is a powerful therapeutic tool, yet often the most difficult part is knowing how and where to begin.

Planting Daisies is one of those books in which reader and character become friends in the face of their shared struggles.

Unravel the mystery of speaking in French!

You Can Say That Again is Bruce Rogers' light-hearted look at the the English language.

There are so many different graduate creative writing programs out there!

Sharpen your Spanish language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and cultureBetter Reading Spanish offers you entertaining, "e;real world"e; texts to help you understand and learn more Spanish vocabulary and phrases.

Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling.

Foreword by William Sutcliffe, author of Are you Experienced?

Set in and around the boomtown of Creede, Colorado, in 1892, Altars of Tomorrow is the final chapter of the Deacon Coburn narrative that began in Days of Purgatory.

Volume II considers values and culture at the institutional level.

In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice.

The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken.

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why.

Part textbook and part handbook, From "e;Huh?

COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN is easy to use and completely up to date!

Puppet Wardrobe is a pop-up book, surprise is in its element.

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature.

Reliably insightful.