Language learning: specific skills

Academic Writing is emerging as a distinct subject for teaching and research in higher education in the UK and elsewhere.

This comprehensive and practical book covers the basics of grammar as well as the broad brush issues such as writing a grant application and selling to your potential audience.

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth, and skill-building.

Think of the most memorable week of your life.

Do you find it hard to make friends?

Creative writing may be the ultimate form of self-expression.

The go-to guide to helping you make the leap from French language basics to composing well-structured sentences-now with extensive audio support.

The second edition of Writing That Makes Sense takes students through the fundamentals of the writing process and explores the basic steps of critical thinking.

A study of inferencing from a wide variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, as well as different levels of processing.

More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose.

A comprehensive overview of how we use prosody to do things in conversation, such as persuade, suggest, flatter, take turns and reach agreement.

Five minutes a day is all it takes to begin learning Chinese!

Do you want to have more meaningful conversations in French?

Barbara Turner-Vesselago's first book, Writing Without a Parachute, showed writers how to fall in love with writing.

Complete Latin is a comprehensive ebook plus audio course that takes you from beginner to advanced level.

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For courses in English Composition.

Step-by-step guidance on how to write effective grants that get the funding you need.

Inclusive of the scope and authoritative references from earlier editions, this edition additionally embraces the digital world and provides practical suggestions for performing the "e;act of teaching.

Enjoy Spanish is a comprehensive ebook + audio language course that takes you to an advanced level of speaking, reading and writing Spanish.

This comprehensive and practical book covers the basics of grammar as well as the broad brush issues such as writing a grant application and selling to your potential audience.

A useful guide to best practice including reviews of the latest and most helpful tests available.

Learn how to speak French fluently and spontaneously Practice Makes Perfect: French Conversation gives you helpful instruction on correct pronunciation, grammar, syntax, and word usage, keeping in mind the typical problems of native English speakers like you.

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches.

A Writer's Reference has offered clear and quick answers to tough questions for millions of college writers.

Dieses Buch ist Band 2 des Ersten Polnischen Lesebuches für Anfänger.

This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding audio support.

Teaches students of all ages the basics of phonics with a time-tested, foolproof method This tenth edition of the best-selling book teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns.

Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Old English offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate such canonical texts as Beowulf and the earliest version of the Lord's Prayer from a critical point in our history.

Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession.

THE STORY I WANT TO TELL pairs the work of 20 aspiring young writers-including immigrants from war-ravaged countries-with original stories, essays, and poems from Richard Blanco, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dave Eggers, Lily King, Jonathan Lethem, Bill Roorbach, Monica Wood, and other top writers in a call-and-response anthology.

This Element explains how different language learning settings dynamically affect bilingual children''s language learning trajectories.

A practical guide to writing scientific grant proposal narratives, with in-depth examples covering content, organisational alternatives, phrasing and argumentation.

Learn more essential American and British English in this beginner audio course.

Ted Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities.

The Second 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach that helps students to learn, recognize and write the second 100 most common Chinese characters.

The Singer's Guide to German Diction is the essential foundation for a complete course in German diction for singers, vocal coaches, choral conductors, and anyone wishing to learn the proper pronunciation of High German.

Foreword by bestselling and award-winning author Smriti Halls.

Writing Master Class is a biography of David Pownall s play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age.

This book explores innovative pedagogical practices and teaching and learning strategies in the engineering curriculum for empowered learning.