Language learning: specific skills

Designed for non-native speakers of English, Twelve American Voices presents a series of entertaining and culturally rich radio documentaries by award-winning producer David Isay.

Championing Science shows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government, industry, and education.

A Kansas Notable BookBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001.

Gain the skills needed to converse in English with confidence!

Gain the confidence to strike up a conversation in German!

She's blonde, brave, and totally determined-she's a gutsy professional surfer who has inspired millions, and her biggest audience is teenage girls.

In this unique look at leadership, Patterson shares the results of interviews he conducted with 14 highly respected superintendents about the human side of this important job.

The easy way to learn the Korean Hangeul writing system!

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

A common definition of ekphrasis is descriptive writing influenced by the visual arts.

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.

Non-degree and undergraduate students are both inexperienced essay writers who need close guidance to become effective writers.

The discovery of new words can be a fun and memorable experience, both to parents and their kids.

Let's build the world with shapes and sizes!

Let us challenge your babies and toddlers with this size and shape book that involves a cat all throughout the end.

Help your little one learn a language by encouraging reading and conversations.

Learning opposites has never been more fun and easy with this book in place.

Turn those baby babbles into actual words by setting the right learning environment.

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

There's a way to influence your child's love for learning through effective educational resources.

Learning opposites is very important in teaching a child to describe things or emotions.

Let the Crazy Child Write!

This book is a supplementary tool for preschool teachers.

You don't have to look too far or employ complex strategies to encourage reading.

Aside from learning the alphabet, a preschooler must also be exposed to phonics.

It's amazing how quick babies learn!

It's a joy to hear your little one speak out his/her thoughts and emotions.

This has got to be the most delicious alphabet book in the market for your kiddos!

Your children going to school is a big deal milestone that parents must be so proud of achieving.

There's too much supertoll in this learning book that your kids wouldn't be able to stop talking about.

In these tough economic times companies are downsizing, outsourcing, and merging, and job seekers are facing more competition than ever.

Teaching your child to learn and fall in love with a language can be tough especially if he/she is still transitioning from babbling to speaking.

Influence your child's vocabulary today and he/she will enjoy reading and writing tomorrow.

How important are sight words?

Days of Purgatory is a mystery thriller set against the backdrop of westward expansion.

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.

Learn about sight words, and prepare yourself for a wonderful reading adventure!

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

When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing.

This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English.

Too often we're guided by what we last heard, by our friends' approval, by impulse-our desires, our fears.

In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities.

This volume offers a fresh intercultural perspective on the discursive and rhetorical challenges non-Anglophone scholars face while writing and publishing in English for an international readership.

Text comprehension is a critical area of psychological and educational research, and has particular relevance to educational context.

The use of printed words to capture language is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind, and learning to read them is one of the most remarkable achievements of individuals.

Research on the development on written language and literacy is inherently multidisciplinary.

This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts.

Unlearn bad habits, sharpen your emails and improve your written communication throughout your business with How to Write Effective Business English.

Unlearn bad habits, sharpen your emails and improve your written communication throughout your business with How to Write Effective Business English.

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