Language learning: specific skills

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to speaking and writing correctly, with information on grammar, sentence structure, writing letters, common pitfalls, comments on famous pieces of literature and their authors, and much more.

Many children avoid writing for a number of reasons perhaps they find it tedious or frustrating, or perhaps they have dyslexia or dysgraphia.

An off-hand speculation by ex-pat and professor, David Moran, sends his celebrated historian colleague, Graham Guade, on an investigation that peels back American use of, and protection for, Japanese doctors who committed unspeakable medical experiments in WWII.

As a genre that confounds the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, fictocriticism continues to gain currency.

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

Äsops Fabeln, auch Äsopika genannt, sind eine Sammlung von Fabeln, die Äsop zugeschrieben werden, einem Sklaven und Geschichtenerzähler, der zwischen 620 und 564 v.

This eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-apply remedies that will make your writing readable.

Reinforce your written Chinese with this practice book for the best-selling Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters.

A gentleman knows the importance of effectively expressing, in three or four sentences, his thanks for a gift or for a job interview, conveying his sympathy, or saying he is sorry.

Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather.

Christianity Today 2025 Book Award Finalist (Culture, Poetry, and the Arts)"Show[s] how deep reading habits help us manage distraction and bring about individual and communal flourishing.

This is the Volume 2 of the First Russian Reader for Beginners series, which features easy-to-read texts that are both simple and amusing.

Beginning with a review of the theory and pedagogic practices that have been influential in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, this book examines the practice of joint construction in a genre-based approach to literacy pedagogy.

The essays in New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy pose an invention-based approach to new media studies.

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

Personal writing can be risky for anyone, but for military veterans, especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress, sharing stories can trigger painful and disturbing flashbacks.

Theory has been used widely in the field of second language writing.

Dieses Buch ist Band 3 des Ersten Englischen Lesebuches fur Anfanger.

An updated, expanded edition of the authoritative book on the teaching and learning of vocabulary in another language.

A friendly guide that teaches you effective methods of communication to avoid common conflicts and make your voice heard in the office Communicating Effectively For Dummies shows you how to get your point across at work and interact productively with bosses and coworkers.

Aesop's Fables, also called Aesopica, are a collection of fables attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who is said to have lived between 620 and 564 BC in ancient Greece.

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

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

'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.

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

On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition's techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world.

Make an Impact with your Written English deals with the English business writing you need to take you a step further in your executive career.

This expert guide provides yoga teachers with the skills they need to understand how to care for and improve their voices technically, as well as how to express themselves authenticity and effectively as a teacher.

The first study to explore deeply and intimately the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, The Scholarship of Creative Writing and Practice offers a new route in scholarly inquiry for creative writing studies, probing beyond pedagogical methods (with which most of the field's scholarship is occupied) to explore the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writer/academics.

Help students develop their own special talents and interests while supporting student literacy, social development, and a lifelong interest in reading through connecting books to children's hobbies.

Lehrende von Fremdsprachen, insbesondere von "kleineren" Sprachen, wie zum Beispiel dem Georgischen, stehen nicht selten vor der Herausforderung, die hierzu passenden Lehr- und Lernmethoden für ihren Unterricht zu finden.

The use of creative writing as a route to personal development is a powerful therapeutic tool - a fact that is recognized in the growing numbers of workshops and writing groups within professional contexts, including clinical, health and criminal justice settings.

In Growing Writers, veteran teacher educator Anne Elrod Whitney explores how the principles defined in NCTEs Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement can support high school writers and teachers of writing through knowledge and a conscious search for meaning in our writing activities.

Unravel the mystery of speaking in French!

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

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

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

Never before have parents, teachers, and other advocates for young people been more concerned about the declining quality of higher education.

Beginning with a review of the theory and pedagogic practices that have been influential in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, this book examines the practice of joint construction in a genre-based approach to literacy pedagogy.

The WPA Outcomes Statement-A Decade Later examines the ways that the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition has informed curricula, generated programmatic, institutional, and disciplinary change, and affected a disciplinary understanding of best practices in first-year composition.

Get Started in Latin is the ebook and audio course to follow if you are taking your first steps in Latin, whether classical or medieval.

Mastering written Japanese begins with hands-on practice, and Writing Japanese Hiragana offers the perfect starting point.

Get Started in Latin is the ebook and audio course to follow if you are taking your first steps in Latin, whether classical or medieval.

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

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.