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Help your students read their way to better English. The Oxford Bookworms Library offers high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience, with a world wide range of classic and modern fiction, non-fiction and plays. Bookworms include original and adapted texts in seven carefully graded...

This exciting new series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work. The readers are graded at four levels, from 3 to 6, suitable for students from age 8 and older. They can support Content and Language Integrated Learning...

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they'll love their English lessons too. This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories...

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they'll love their English lessons too. This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories...

Oxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience. Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills. Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story -...

This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic associations between masculinity and games. It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity--including issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and militarism--and their intersections with digital games, the contexts of their play,...

Author: Martina WiltschkoISBN-10: 1108481825ISBN-13: 9781108481823Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2021Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Providing a series of chapters, written by teacher educators in three continents, this edited volume explores the concepts, challenges, possibilities, and implementations of competency-based instruction for developing English competencies in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. Recent trends in education have emphasized the...

Philippine festivals have gradually responded to the challenges, especially when it comes to socio-cultural aspect. Ati-Atihan Festival is regarded as "Mother of all Philippine Festivals". It has been known for its devoutness, distinctiveness and unrestrained revelry. The study analyzed and interpreted the Ati-Atihan Festival...

Author: StckvagnISBN-10: 0739865048ISBN-13: 9780739865040Publisher: Steck Vaughn School SupplyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 10.88h x 8.26w x 0.17d

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, University of Constance (FB Literatur, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften), course: Writing Africa, language: English, abstract: The present research paper aims to prove in a first step that...

Dungan Folktales and Legends is a unique anthology that acquaints English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China for Russian Central Asia after failure of the Dungan Revolt (1862-1877) against the Qing dynasty. Author:...

Basic level according to Brazilian courses' contents.Author: Ricardo Fernandes MarquesISBN-10: 8721891656ISBN-13: 9798721891656Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2006Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.17d

Follow the triumph and trials of real-life students as they learn English, whether they're pursuing it for their vocation, as immigrants to a new country, for travel, or for their very survival. Learn how teachers seek to bridge the divide between theory and practice...

What are the components of a quality education ESL program? TESOL's Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs answers this question by defining quality components from a national perspective. Using program indicators in eight distinct areas, the standards can be used to review an existing...

Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters is a fully translated English edition of a three-volume account published by Nikolai Gretsch (1787-1867) in Russian in 1839. In the original Russian, Gretsch describes his travels in post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837 at the behest of the...

Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters is a fully translated English edition of a three-volume account published by Nikolai Gretsch (1787-1867) in Russian in 1839. In the original Russian, Gretsch describes his travels in post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837 at the behest of the...

Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters is a fully translated English edition of a three-volume account published by Nikolai Gretsch (1787-1867) in Russian in 1839. In the original Russian, Gretsch describes his travels in post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837 at the behest of the...

This volume, a veritable narrative tour through the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), is first and foremost a communal effort by all the faculty who decided to contribute essays on how they provide humanistic perspectives in a technological world in their research,...

During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his philosophical views and radical political ideas. These, together with his highly unconventional...

For several decades, Dr. Morris has worked primarily with twoproblems: the development of a general theory of signs, and thedevelopment of a general theory of value. He approached both problemsin terms of George Mead's theory of action or behavior. This bookbrings together these two...

Will my reading improve? What will help me learn? How can I remember what I've read? What causes reading difficulties? This handbook uses illustrations and easy-to-read text to explain how adults with low-literacy skills can become better readers. Adults will also learn about the...

A public speaking class is designed to help students develop lifetime skills for communicating with others in a public or large group setting. These important skills improve personal confidence and competence and ultimately help every student in their academic, social, and professional life. This...

First published in 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential--and one of the most obscure--philosophical works of the twentieth century. Duncan Richter's new translation of and commentary on the Tractatus help the reader understand the text and directs the reader...

From 1988 to 2013, teens in Los Angeles had a unique opportunity to publish their own stories in L.A. Youth, a newspaper by and about teens, distributed throughout Southern California. Taking on such issues as involuntary hospitalization of "troublesome" teens, police abuse, and homelessness;...

This book examines medium of instruction in education and studies its social, economic, and political significance in the lives of people living in South Asia. It provides insight into the meaning of medium and what makes it so important to identity, aspiration, and inequality....

The book introduces 40 Arabic catchy phrases that reflect Arabic language and culture artistically and aesthetically, adding a sense of joy and entertainment to learning this magnificent language. Through common expressions, and sayings of wisdom that address various themes, the book can be used...

21st Century Literacy for Middle and Secondary Students introduces readers to instructional ideas and approaches that have shown to be effective in supporting literacy development of students in grades 5 through 12. The opening chapter reviews the methods used by publishers to assign a...

The Reading-Writing Thinking Connection: Your Thoughts Your Voice puts into your students' hands a unique educational innovation - "Thinking-Centered Education." The title of this book has been chosen to communicate a clear sense of what they will experience as they progress throughout the term...

PACE Yourself is for inexperienced or volunteer tutors of ESL. This handbook does not aim to make overnight experts of novices. Rather, the authors provide an easy-to-follow guide for people who want to tutor small groups of nonnative speakers of English but do not...

Teaching and Learning Language Arts from a Diverse Perspective: An Anthology introduces future educators to theories, instructional strategies, and student activities to help them effectively prepare to teach English Language Arts. With a focus on inclusivity, the author introduces readers to specific populations of...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Author: StckvagnISBN-10: 0739865072ISBN-13: 9780739865071Publisher: Steck Vaughn School SupplyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.86h x 8.28w x 0.20d

Author: StckvagnISBN-10: 0739865064ISBN-13: 9780739865064Publisher: Steck Vaughn School SupplyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 10.86h x 8.32w x 0.21d

This collection studies new developments in postmillennial popular romance fiction. The book discusses romance in different countries and explores how the genre has always been sensitive to customer demands and market trends. The chapters focus on how traditional formulae are being reshaped to meet...

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania).This is a study of the works of the Northern Song Chinese poet Chen Yuyi (1090-1139) as he fled the Jurchen invasion during the massive political upheavals of...

Arabic Alphabet & Numbers size both ( 8.5 11 )- 39 Pages- High-resolution interiorAuthor: Amir D. EditionISBN-10: 8552946378ISBN-13: 9798552946372Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2020Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.08d

This book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic or aquatic frames of mind rather than traditional land-based approaches. Ecocriticism has rapidly become not only a disciplinary legitimate critical form but also one of the...

The process of word compounding ranks among the most productive processes of word formation in the English language. Most of the new formed compounds belong to so-called 'open' word classes, that is, to compound nouns, adjectives or verbs. Compound adjectives are formed in many...

The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Today, Ovid's famous work is one of the touchstones of ancient literature, but we have only a handful of scraps and quotations to...

The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Today, Ovid's famous work is one of the touchstones of ancient literature, but we have only a handful of scraps and quotations to...

This book unpacks data from conversations with bi-/multilingual EFL teachers to provide insights into the formation of ideal teacher selves. The author discusses the complexities surrounding the development of the teachers' selves and motivation, as well as their intertwinement with the sociopolitical realities of...

How can mystery transform into clarity, how can magic mirrors reflect real faces, and how can myths and folklore access the highest point of reality? All these are interpreted through magical realism. This book deals with "Magical Realism", which means the blending of different...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life. Composed by Japanese...

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part...

Shōtetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shōtetsu (1381-1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including anecdotes about famous poets, advice...

Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to...

First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868-1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new-and sometimes...