Language learning: specific skills

The perfect guide to conversational English-now updated with new exercises, practice dialogues, and FREE mobile access to audio recordingsWith more than 1 million copies in print, the Practice Makes Perfect series is the world s go-to resource for learning and mastering languages.

Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions.

The varying patterns in the development of English prose from the discursiveness of the fourteenth century to the directness of the twentieth are outlined in this book.

This volume explains how analyzing textual elements that aren't part of the text but connected to it can be used with K-16 students to improve comprehension, engagement, critical thinking, and media literacy.

Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America's most celebrated contemporary authors.

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader.

Schließe dich Tim und Sam auf einer unvergesslichen Klassenfahrt nach Transsilvanien an, einem Land, das von Geheimnissen und Legenden durchdrungen ist.

Use this one-of-a-kind practice guide and Chinese workbook together with any Chinese book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking.

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Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools.

With Checkpoint Science Revision Guide for the Cambridge Secondary 1 test you can aim for the best grade with the help of relevant and accessible notes, examiner advice plus questions and answers on each key topic.

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'As well as guides on how to report courts and councils, Newspaper Journalism offers tips on how to write both news stories and features and how to make and keep contacts.

Das Buch enthalt eine Darstellung der englischen Gesprache des taglichen Familienlebens, wobei die Texte auf Englisch und auf Deutsch nebeneinanderstehen.

"e;It's an easy read and will help you find the silver lining behind every cloud.

Rethinking Reading in College argues for more systematic attention to the role of reading comprehension in college, as a necessary step in addressing the inequities in student achievement that otherwise increase over time.

Rector's assistant Owen Mathias, a young and average sensualist, gradually stumbles on the considerable connections his church in Kobe, Japan, has to atrocities committed by Unit 731, Japan's biological warfare research center in Harbin, Manchuria, during World War II.

Say farewell to language faux pas forever!

A handy ESL phrase guide that helps you converse like a native English speaker-now enhanced via app with audio recordings of key expressionsIf you re an intermediate level speaker of English, you know that idiomatic speech, slang and other English phrases can create a barrier to conversing confidently in casual and work-related situations.

Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need.

How does children's writing develop in the transition from primary to secondary school?

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

This bestselling guide to all areas of publishing and the media is completely revised and updated every year.

Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete New Testament Greek offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and ultimately how to translate the language in which the Bible was originally written.

Crack the Code and Get Fluent Faster!

Are you looking for a complete course in Gaelic which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker?

This highly illustrated textbook is both a reference and activity book for all beginners and early intermediate students of Arabic.

Expand your English vocabulary and build your confidence in speaking!

Das Buch enthält einen Kurs für Anfänger und fortgeschrittene Anfänger, wobei Texte auf Arabisch und auf Deutsch nebeneinanderstehen.

This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century.

TEACHING AND LEARNING CREATIVELY: I01 General/tradePIRATIO01 General/trade AND REFLECTIO01 General/trade offers a glimpse into a Clemson University project that fostered poetry writing in courses across the curriculum and grew to include visual and other kinds of creative responses.

Do you want to be able to express yourself in Spanish with confidence and fluency?

Dieses Buch ist Band 5 in der Serie Gestufte Polnische Lesebücher.

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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners.

Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

Beyond Argument offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the "e;care of the self"e; - an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived.

Writing Skills for Public Relations is filled with helpful pointers and useful examples for public relations practitioners at all levels who need to make the best use of written communication.

This superb guide teaches you how to read critically.

Das Buch ist ein Klassiker, der mit einem liebenswerten Jungen aufwartet, der trotz all des Elends in seinem Leben niemals aufgibt und sich sein gutes Herz bewahrt.

This volume provides a unique overview of the complete histories of Latin and Greek as second languages.

Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary.