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The ideological battles fought between communist and capitalist states during most of the 20th century led to a tendentious evaluation of novels of social protest. Today, the undisputed triumph of capitalism presents us with the opportunity to gain a more objective understanding of their...

In the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in the benefits of linking the learning of a foreign language to the study of its literature. However, the incorporation of literary texts into language curriculum is not easy to tackle. As a...

Creating technology-integrated learning environments for adolescent and adult language learners remains a challenge to educators in the field. Thoroughly examining and optimizing the experience of these students is imperative to the success of language learning classrooms. Technology-Assisted ESL Acquisition and Development for Nontraditional Learners...

Trainees' voices, beliefs and experiences as learners, shaped by the tension and dialogue between internal and external theories of teaching and learning, inevitably penetrate the Initial English Language Teacher Education (IELTE) curriculum. Scrutinising these beliefs and experiences, Initial English Language Teacher Education provides readers...

From John of Apamea to Mark's Gospel: Two Dialogues with Thomasios: A Hermeneutical Reading of Horáō, Blépō, and Theōréō combines two theological fields of investigation. The first is related to the Patristic theology of Eastern Syrian Christianity and the second resides in the field...

When Lord Byron identified the periodical industry as the "Literary Lower Empire," he registered the cultural clout that periodicals had accumulated by positioning themselves as both the predominant purveyors of scientific, economic, and social information and the arbiters of literary and artistic taste. British...

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his...

Basque is a language of central importance to linguists because it is a 'language isolate, ' a rare type of language that is typologically 'alone' and cannot be classified as a part of any language family. Language isolates remain somewhat a mystery, and this...

Cambridge Experience Readers is a graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and non-fiction especially written for teenagers. Southampton, England, 1912. Hannah Frost's father is in America and her mother and brother are leaving Southampton to join him. However, Hannah is recovering from...

Inevitably, it is in the most commonly used languages that the vocabulary of language testing and assessment is most highly developed, and for which most of the literature has been produced. A multilingual glossary has a significant role to play in encouraging the development...

This Dictionary of Language Testing was written over a number of years by a group of researchers at the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. It contains some 600 entries, each listed under a headword with extensive cross-referencing. It is intended...

Learner Strategy Use and Performance on Language Tests investigates the relationships between learner strategy use and performance on second language tests. To this effect, it examines the construct validity of two questionnaires, designed within a model of human information processing, that purport to measure...

The focus on careful reading in theoretical literature has meant that we have somewhat ignored reading behaviours such as skimming, scanning and search reading in the teaching and testing of reading. These theories do not explain how readers process texts quickly and selectively. The...

Professor Winnington-Ingram's reputation as an authority on Greek drama is based on a lifetime's careful scholarship. In 1980 the Press published Professor Winnington-Ingram's book on Sophocles and in 1983 he followed it up with some studies on Aeschylus. This book explores the problems in...

Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a subgenre of fiction. Machann argues instead for considering these autobiographies interntextually and as a historically defined genre that can profitably be studied as nonfiction and as...

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. These stories, which were first broadcast on National Public Radio, focus on a range of individuals living and working in...

Processing French presents a groundbreaking empirical study of the processing of morphologically simple and complex French words. Peter Golato's research offers an insightful account of the lexical storage and retrieval of isolated words and words within sentences.Processing French investigates the native-language processing of French,...

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his...

In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all citizens. Yet these elementary education policies ignored, in most cases, the...

ISBN-10: 0194863093ISBN-13: 9780194863094Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2024Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.72w x 0.14d

ISBN-10: 0194862895ISBN-13: 9780194862899Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2024Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.24h x 9.27w x 0.17d

Provides contextualized reading practice students need to learn and retain new vocabulary. Before Reading, Reading Check and After Reading activities review and reinforce vocabulary, ensure comprehension, and build critical thinking skills. Links to The Oxford Picture Dictionary provide a visual glossary for easy reference....

Provides contextualized reading practice students need to learn and retain new vocabulary. Before Reading, Reading Check and After Reading activities review and reinforce vocabulary, ensure comprehension, and build critical thinking skills. Links to The Oxford Picture Dictionary provide a visual glossary for easy reference....

Provides contextualized reading practice students need to learn and retain new vocabulary. Before Reading, Reading Check and After Reading activities review and reinforce vocabulary, ensure comprehension, and build critical thinking skills. Links to The Oxford Picture Dictionary provide a visual glossary for easy reference....

Additional reading, writing, and grammar practice for each chapter of the reader Consolidation activities A book review Answers to the activities can be found on the teacher's websiteAuthor: Richard NorthcottISBN-10: 0194643948ISBN-13: 9780194643948Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2011Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 7.18h x 5.47w x 0.27d

Additional reading, writing, and grammar practice for each chapter of the reader Consolidation activities A book review Answers to the activities can be found on the teacher's websiteAuthor: Alex RaynhamISBN-10: 019464393XISBN-13: 9780194643931Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2011Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 6.72h x 5.86w x 0.27d

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the...

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the...

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the...

This interactive series makes developing language skills exciting for primary.Stories and cross-curricular texts with full-color illustrations stimulate students' interest, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language. BL Pictures support the story clearlyBL Text in different colors makes it easier to follow the...

Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible...The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and...

"In AD 68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives...

A field manual examining how language becomes weaponized through systematic inversion of meaning. Using the concept of linguistic chirality, this work analyzes how words like 'freedom, ' 'security, ' and 'patriot' are twisted by power structures while offering practical frameworks for restoring coherent communication...

A comprehensive system for achieving English fluency using artificial intelligence technology. This practical guide demonstrates how adult learners can overcome common language barriers and develop confident communication skills through structured AI interaction.Systematic Learning Approach: Foundation Building (Weeks 1-4): Establish daily practice routines that accelerate...

Old English ( nglisc) is the earliest recorded form of the English language. It was brought to Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century. The first literary works in Old English date from the mid 7th century. Spelling was not standardised but varied...

This English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary is intended for translators, interpreters and scholars who are involved in the in-depth study of English or Russian. It has been compiled over the course of twenty years and goes well beyond the scope of standard lexicons. Its breadth is extensive,...

This large-format, two-volume Advanced Eng-Rus/Rus-Eng Dictionary is one of the most comprehensive specialty dictionaries to ever hit the market. Each entry attempts to offer a fresh look at handling the translation of obstreperous words and phrases while offering thousands of examples from native speaking...

The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is for historians working in the fields of astronomy, science, the Middle Ages, Spanish and other Romance languages. It is also of interest to scholars interested in the history of Castile, in Castilian-French relations in the Middle Ages and...

Liberia's offering - Being addresses, sermons, etc. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: Classics of Australian Literature in English, language: English, abstract: This term paper wants to examine the forms and functions of...

All About Adjectives is written by the critically acclaimed author of "Quantum of Justice", Douglas J Boggs. He designed this book to help eliminate writer's block. It is the ultimate writer's aide with 180 writer's prompts and over 1001 adjectives to help spark the...

The UG family of words introduces words that end with UG. The readers will Learn to Say the words and See various pictures of the word. Pictures, letters sounds of the alphabet and the family sound will help your child read. Comprehension comes with...

Undoubtedly, teachers of this century should empower themselves both pedagogically and technologically to be able to teach more efficiently and enable efficient learning. Although there is extensive research on the way language should be taught, research on the use of technological pedagogical and content...

Premium workbook for primary education. An engaging full color workbook filled with focused and effective exercises. Students will work through the following topics: Cause and Effect Narrative Point of View Compare and Contrast Informational Paragraph Contractions, and Possessive Pronouns All of OnBoard's lessons are...

This book interrogates language teacher identity construction, negotiation, and meaning-making in today's ever-changing global contexts. By exploring language teacher identity through a critical lens and drawing on insights from language teachers and language teacher educators, it provides a deep understanding of how identity construction...

This book provides evidence-based and pedagogically-focused analyses of a variety of multimodal resources to scaffold learning in contexts of English-Medium Education (EME) in Asia. The contributing authors are active researchers in the field of EME and multimodality across the primary, secondary and tertiary levels,...

Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad s Novels sets out to revolutionize our reading of Joseph Conrad s works and challenge the critical heritage that accompanies them. Levin identifies the emergence of an aesthetic principle in Conrad s novels and theorizes that principle through...

Spanish-Language Pragmatics: A Guide for Teachers provides Spanish instructors with a user-friendly introductory guide to teaching Spanish pragmatics and is designed to make it easier to implement pragmatics instruction in the classroom. Author: Rachel L. ShivelyISBN-10: 1138695521ISBN-13: 9781138695528Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize:...

This new teacher-friendly book offers a quick, efficient, easy-to-use tool--the Classroom Assessment of Language Levels (CALL)--to assess the language levels of English learners in grades K-12. Learn how to effectively use the tool utilizing direct interview and small-group observation to determine students' instructional levels...

Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of...