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Oxford University Press
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A five-level course for 10-15 year olds, based on the highly popular and innovative Project English, incorporating a new structure and design, complete revision of the original material, plus substantial new material. |
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A five-level course for 10-15 year olds, based on the highly popular and innovative Project English, incorporating a new structure and design, complete revision of the original material, plus substantial new material. |
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This book has two major themes: firstly, it discusses psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of language learning, and secondly, it looks at the contrast between universalist accounts of language learning and accounts which focus on individual differences between learners. Interwoven throughout is a focus on practical applications of these themes in task-based learning and language testing. Winner MLA Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize. |
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Each book covers a key area of language teaching, followed by examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques. Each book covers a key area of language teaching, followed by examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques. This book offers ideas on how dictionaries can be used to encourage reading while developing memory skills. |
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Psycholinguists have shown that the comprehension and production of even the simplest language is a highly complex, almost miraculous, process. This brief introduction shows how psycholinguistic research can act as a window to the workings of the human mind. |
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A resource book of activities to prepare students for public examinations. Includes over 70 classroom activities ranging from raising awareness of individual sounds to full-scale listening projects. Emphasizes listening as a social and interactive skill. Helps learners to develop strategies to make sense of what they hear in English. |
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This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study. |
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Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which different groups of people use language. This book provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field, making links with related disciplines such as history, politics, and gender studies. |
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This is an attempt to redraw the boundaries of foreign language study. It focuses attention not just on cultural knowledge as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right, as an end as well as a means of language learning. |
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Contributions from a wide range of related areas are assembled in this book: psycholinguistics, pragmatics, second language acquisition, syntax, text linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as educational and applied linguistics. These contributions enable the applied linguist to keep up-to-date with current thinking in diverse fields. The editiorial introductions to the papers show how their contents relate to each other and discuss some of the practical implications for language teaching and language assessment. |
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This is an introduction to linguistics, the study of human language. The author provides a succinct but lucid outline of the ways in which language has been defined, described, and explored, and guides readers towards further exploration of their own. |
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Beginners contains over 100 original, ready-to-use activities for beginners' classes. These include activities for both absolute and false beginners, and a section for use with learners unfamiliar with the Roman alphabet. |
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This book is for language teachers who want to increase cultural awareness and interaction among their students. The authors define the subject broadly and include activities relating not only to cultural achievements, but also to culturally-influenced beliefs, perceptions, and behaviour. This book is intended for teachers of English as a foreign language. |
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This work deals with the study of style in language, how styles can be recognized, and their features. It examines how style is used in literary and non-literary texts, and how familiarity with style is a matter of socialization. The author also discusses the relationship between text and discourse, the production and reception of meaning as a dynamic contextualized interaction, the question of perspective and the variable representation of reality, and how stylistics can complement literary criticism. The final chapter deals with social reading and ideological positioning including some thoughts on feminist stylistics and critical discourse analysis. |
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This book provides an accessible introduction to anyone interested in the history of the English language. It outlines the major issues and terminology used in the field of Historical Linguistics, a required part of most university-level language and linguistics courses, and creates an opening into the field for the new reader. |
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Phonetics is an essential part of linguistics, as it is through analysing spoken language that linguistic data is collected. This book leads the reader through the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made and how phoneticians classify them in certain ways, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and how sounds are transmitted from speaker to hearer. |
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This work gives detailed examples of classrom activities that exploit the language-learning opportunities the Internet offers. They include searching on the Web, evaluating Web pages, creating language learning material and communicating using the Internet. A companion website provides regular updates to the information and ideas in the book. |
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This volume provides a wide variety of immediately accessible ideas for projects inside and outside the classroom. Fully updated and revised, the text offers projects which have been designed and tested by teachers from all over the world. Activities can be used with a wide range of levels and age groups and need a minimum of preparation. Each is explained in full — the aims, resources, preparation and implementation, and feedback. The projects vary in length between 3 hours and 20 weeks, and they have satisfying outcomes for students to improve their overall communicative ability. The tasks give participants the chance to improve their competence in the four skills as well as in useful areas such as giving presentations, making a video, and producing reports and articles. |
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This book presents SLA research as a source of specifications for teachers to explore in their own classrooms. The author sees the four main roles of SLA researchers as developing relevant theories, conducting their own classroom research, making research accessible to teachers, and facilitating action research. Each chapter addresses a major issue in the field of SLA and language teaching. |
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This accessible book examines issues such as test design, the rating process, validity, measurement, and the social dimension of language testing. It looks at both traditional and newer forms of language assessment, and the challenges posed by new views. |
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