Language learning: specific skills

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What do young children from different cultural backgrounds learn about reading and writing before they come to school?

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.

A complete introduction to written Japanese start here with zero knowledge and finish feeling confident!

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Addressing the sensitive issue of difficulties in literacy development this practical book outlines what is meant by 'literacy' and the barriers to literacy development such as social class, ethnicity, culture and gender.

Ungenügende Lesekompetenzen und individuelle Mehrsprachigkeit stellen zwei bildungspolitische Herausforderungen dar, die auf verschiedenen Ebenen miteinander verknüpft sind.

Complete Swedish is a comprehensive ebook + audio language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level.

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With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing.

How To Be A Writer is a collection of interviews with famous writers, performers and industry insiders that takes the reader through a writer s day, from getting up to giving in.

A compelling account of the multi-competence view, which explores the similarities and differences between bilinguals and monolinguals.

As a novelist, memoirist, and associate director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, Amy Wallen has a few things to say about the writing world, many of them irreverent and snarky.

Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments is not just about what takes place in literary classrooms.

Special problems are presented to prospographers and historians of the Roman Republic who attempt to determine the chronological structure of Cicero's Brutus.

Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing.

An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun.

Where Drowned Things Live describes the struggles of an untenured professor, Kristin Ginelli, as she tries to counsel a young woman student at her university and get her to reveal who is abusing her.

The times they are a-changing: Who would have expected Bob Dylan to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature as the first songwriter ever?

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.

Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Brazilian Portuguese and communicate confidently with others?

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

Prepare students with complete coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSETM Chemistry syllabus (0620/0971) for examination from 2023.

Whenever you talk to someone, you have less than ten seconds to capture their attention and another twenty to hold it to you.

A state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, presenting revision of an influential model alongside new empirical studies.

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativityand how it saved her life.

Learning new facial expressions and mouth movements can be great fun, just ask Sam!

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A lively and accessible account which explores the teaching of Chinese as an international language from a Singapore perspective.

A comprehensive account of the research and practice of task-based language teaching.

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Draws on critical and radical change theory to equip both aspiring and practicing library and teacher candidates with practical, research-based ideas for enacting critical literacy practices in middle grade libraries and classrooms.

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

No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook.

In Poetics of Listening, renowned sound studies scholar Brandon LaBelle brings critical attention to listening as a practice, one that can wield significant impact onto individual, interpersonal and community wellbeing.

LEARN HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL COURSE.

Gives a theoretical and empirical grounding for quantitative corpus linguistic research in first and second language writing development.

Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern American popular culture.

Helps readers write memoirs, personal essays, and life stories of every length and type.

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

Schools in 45 states now administer annual standardized tests, designed to gauge children's proficiency in reading, and, in many cases, to determine who gets promoted and who doesn't.

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.