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CLINICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS eBook

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Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation.

fills gap in the literature for speech-language pathologists by addressing how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation

collects newly commissioned articles written by top scholars in the field

includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research over the last 40 years and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists

discusses topics including bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and African-American English

Richmond, Dorothy Practice Makes Perfect Basic Spanish eBook

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Gschossmann-Hendershot, Elke, Feuerle, Lois Schaum's Outline of German Grammar, 4ed eBook

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Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. This Schaum's Outline gives youPractice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledgeCoverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course fieldIn-depth review of practices and applicationsFully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.

HANDBK OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTI eBook

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics concerned with language change as well as past language states.

Provides a comprehensive and current account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical linguistics.
Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general.
Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change.
Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field.

John Wiley & Sons BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE FOR DUMM eBook

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BSL is the language used by the Deaf Community in the UK and is an officially recognised language in its own right. It has its own grammar and syntax, which are completely different from the grammatical rules of English.

British Sign Language For Dummies takes you through grammar and sentence structure, and also presents the vocabulary you need to communicate in a wide variety of everyday situations so you can start to sign right away.

BSL is a language in its own right which uses signs and facial expressions instead of speech
Covers starting to sign, everyday BSL, getting out and about and gives the top ten tips to improve your signing skills
This book also teaches the reader about Deaf culture so you can get a complete appreciation of signing in context
Packed with drawings and comes with an accompanying CD-Rom which shows a series of conversations in progress so you can see signing in action and ensure you perfect your signing skills

About the author

This book is written by a team from the faculty of Deaf Education and Learning Support at City Lit, led by Karen Considine. The faculty of Deaf Education and Learning Support provides accredited British Sign Language courses at all levels to both deaf and hearing students.

Gill, Mary McVey, Wegmann, Brenda TUNE UP SPANISH W/MP3 2E EB eBook

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Tune Up Your Spanish offers you an entertaining and practical way to hone your Spanish-language conversation skills. This book is structured around numerous key areas for improvement, covering everything from tricky grammatical structures to gestures, slang, and humor. In each area, key phrases are presented in ?Top Ten? lists, including everyday expressions for filling pauses, icebreakers, and more. This book is excellent for brushing up on the Spanish you studied in high school or college.

Malmfors, Birgitta, Garnsworthy, Phil, Grossman, Michael Writing and Presenting Scientific Papers (Adobe Reader) eBook

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This dynamic manual provides guidelines for written and oral scientific presentations, including how to effectively prepare and deliver papers and presentations, how to find reliable research, and how to write research proposals.

Cottonwood Press, Metaphors & More (Adobe Reader) eBook

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This handy booklet can perk up a poetry unit or help students truly understand certain figures of speech: alliteration, clich, euphemism, hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, pun, and simile. Two interesting and student-friendly activities are provided for each term.

Thurston, Cheryl Miller Language Is Served: Games, Writing Prompts, and Other Language Arts Activities on the Yummy Topic of Food (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Focusing each lesson on a single theme that will engage students of all ages, this guidebook encourages teachers to use the topic of food to bring a lively change of pace to the language arts classroom. Providing a wide range of tools-including word games, writing prompts, and research-oriented activities-this resource applies the skills taught in any English class, middle through high school, in a quirky and accessible manner. Each project engages young writers by inspiring them to play with vocabulary and improve communication skills-an important step in learning to use language skillfully.

Larson, Randy Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do With Grammar (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Since its initial publication in 1993, this entertaining grammar book has helped thousands of middle school teachers teach even the most reluctant learners using lessons that de-emphasize rote learning and treat the parts of speech as building blocks for crazy writing assignments. Prompts include using at least 10 prepositional phrases from a list to write a scene from the new vegetable horror novel Squash Cemetery, and using lively verbs to write the monologue of a soda can telling his miserable life story to a psychologist. This new edition offers quirky quizzes to check student progress, even more writing ideas, and a guide to Internet enrichment activities, including "Stupid Roadside Attractions," in which students research goofy tourist traps in America and use vivid adjectives to describe the six that they think are the stupidest.

Martin, Kay, Willoughby, Tina A to Z: Novel Ideas for Reading Teachers (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Full of teacher-tested activities, this book helps students explore their insights into literature through writing, poetry, art, research, and making personal connections to characters, quotations, and events.

Thurston, Cheryl Miller Ideas that Really Work: Activities for Teaching English and Language Arts, 4th edition (Adobe Reader) eBook

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With a wealth of practical lessons and activities-from how to correctly use apostrophes to creating "word snapshot" posters-this guide contains information that can help any English or language arts teacher inspire middle grade and high school students. Because of its humor, accessible content and format, and often unusual approach to traditional subjects, this fun book has remained popular since its introduction in 1991, with this new edition updating topical references and adding dozens of new lessons and activities.

Samston, M. S. Phunny Stuph: Proofreading Exercises with a Sense of Humor (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Jokes and humorous urban legends make up all 100 proofreading exercises in this useful and engaging book. The errors include a little bit of everything-missing punctuation, spelling mistakes, errors in usage, sentence fragments, and more. Each exercise includes teaching notes and an example of a possible correction.

Prust, Samantha A Sentence a Day: Short, Playful Proofreading Exercises to Help Students Avoid Tripping up When They Write (Adobe Reader) eBook

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These brisk and humorous one-sentence examples of writing mistakes provide teachers with what are often called "daily oral language" exercises that help students master the basics of capitalization, mechanics, punctuation, and usage. Such quick mini-lessons can become boring when the sentence comes from another classroom subject such as science, but this book's punchy declarations get kids' attention and keep the focus on writing. Each exercise includes an at-a-glance summary of skills addressed, as well as quick ideas and tips to help students understand basic grammar concepts.

Kwakernaak, Margreet DUTCH FOR DUMMIES (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Dutch is spoken by 23 million people, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium, and is an official EU language. For English speakers, written Dutch can be fairly straightforward to pick up, although the pronunciation can be more of a challenge.

This simple guidebook and audio CD covers Dutch grammar, pronunciation and everyday phrases, making this vibrant language more accessible to English speakers - whether you're just visiting or planning to stay on a long-term basis. Dutch For Dummies is the essential guide for everyone from students and holidaymakers, to those wanting to speak Dutch for business purposes.

From numbers and vocabulary to greetings, popular expressions and proper etiquette, this clear, easy-to-follow guide will have you speaking Dutch like a native in no time.

Dutch For Dummies includes:

Audio CD to assist learning
Introductory grammar and vocabulary
Meeting and getting to know people
Dining out, shopping, leisure time and the workplace
Dealing with emergencies
Tips on how to pick up Dutch quickly

Victor Hugo on Things That Matter: A Reader (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Iglesias, Esther Santamaria SPANISH GRAMMAR WORKBK (Adobe Reader) eBook

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A Spanish Grammar Workbook contains 500 grammar exercises that vary in difficulty from simple tests and puzzles to multiple choice tests and realistic dialogues as well as communication exercises which function as prompts to the oral practice of the grammar in representative contexts.

Includes 500 grammar exercises varying from simple tests and puzzles to multiple choice tests and realistic dialogues which contextualize Spanish grammar in everyday speech.
Indicates difficulty level of each exercise and includes an extensive answer key.
Complements and is cross-referenced with Blackwell's A Comprehensive Spanish Grammar by Jacques de Bruyne (with additional material by Christopher J. Pountain).
Helps language learners understand grammatical functions naturally by putting theory into practice.

Maxom, Michelle TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN (Adobe Reader) eBook

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If you thought it would be easy to teach a language you've spoken all your life, then think again! It can be a huge challenge to learn how to break English down into digestible chunks, and impart information in a logical and intuitive way. But the thousands of people who teach English abroad can certainly testify to the huge popularity of this career, so if you've decided to take a TEFL course, if you're on a TEFL course and want some back-up, or even if you've already started teaching and need a helping hand, then look no further. Covering how to teach grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, to assessing students' performance, setting assignments and tests, and everything in between, this is a one-stop guide to one of the most enriching careers you can embark on.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies covers:

Part I - Getting started in TEFL

Discovering The Wonderful World of TEFL
What Do TEFL Teachers Actually Do?
Going from Student to Teacher: TEFL Courses, Qualifications and Jobs,

Part II - Putting A Lesson Together

Starting From the Beginning: Planning the Lesson
The Spotlight's on You: Giving a Presentation to the Class
Holding the Reins and Letting Them Loose: Giving Students Practice
Getting Your Red Pen Out: Giving Correction & Feedback
Be Materialistic! Using Course Books and Other Materials
Who's the Boss Around here? Managing Your Classroom

Part III - How to Teach Skills Classes

Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons
Write or Wrong? Teaching Writing Lessons
What Accent? Teaching Pronunciation
Setting Their Tongues Wagging: Speaking & Discussing
In One Ear, Out The Other: Learning to Listen

Part IV - The Grammar You Need to Know And How To Teach It

Stop Press! Student to Deliver Sentence
Feeling Tense? Which Tense is Which?
And There's More…..Other Important Verb Structures

Part V - What Kind of Class Will I Have?

Put Them to the Test
The Loner and Businessman: One to Ones and Business English
Getting Youth on Your Side: Coping with younger learners
Making The Grade: Handling Exam classes
One For All And All For One
Monolingual and multi-lingual classes

Part VI - The Part of Tens

10 Ways to Liven up an English lesson
10 Great Resources for TEFL Teachers
Lesson Plan Templates
TEFL Locations Around the World

Enos, Richard Leo ROMAN RHETORIC REV AND EXPANDE (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Greek and Roman traditions dominate classical rhetoric. Conventional historical accounts characterize Roman rhetoric as an appropriation and modification of Greek rhetoric, particularly the rhetoric that flourished in fifth and fourth centuries BCE Athens. However, the origins, nature and endurance of this Greco-Roman relationship have not been thoroughly explained. ROMAN RHETORIC: REVOLUTION AND THE GREEK INFLUENCE reveals that while Romans did benefit from Athenian rhetoric, their own rhetoric was also influenced by later Greek and non-Hellenic cultures, particularly the Etruscan civilization that held hegemony over all of Italy for hundreds of years before Rome came to power. Through the examination of archaeological, epigraphical, historical and literary evidence, ROMAN RHETORIC reveals that the relationship between Greek and Roman rhetoric was dynamic, evolving, and socially interactive. The long history of interaction between Greeks and Romans facilitated a cross-cultural rhetoric that evolved over time and was shaped by social and political forces. These forces often do not appear explicitly in rhetorical theory and practice, but they undeniably influenced classical rhetoric. ROMAN RHETORIC clarifies the relationships between Greek and Roman classical rhetoric by showing the historical forces that shaped their evolution as Romans conquered the Etruscans, as Greeks colonized areas of southern Italy that came to be called Magna Graecia, as Rome changed from Republic to Empire, and as the educational dominance of the Second Sophistic was challenged by efforts to create an emerging Christian rhetoric. RICHARD LEO ENOS is Professor and holder of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at Texas Christian University. His research concentration is in classical rhetoric with an emphasis in the relationship between oral and written discourse. He is past president of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric (1980-1981) and the Rhetoric Society of America (1990-1991). He received the RSA George E. Yoos Award Distinguished Service and was inducted as an RSA Fellow in 2006. He is the founding editor of ADVANCES IN THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC and the editor (with David E. Beard) of ADVANCES IN THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC: THE FIRST SIX YEARS (2007, Parlor Press).

Lima, Paul HT WRITE A NON-FICTION BK IN 6 eBook

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Newton, Stuart LONDINIUM POETA VERSES FROM TH (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Frankenstein, Diane Reading Together eBook

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A dynamic guide to more than 100 books that will get kids talking and reading more.

How do children become good readers? In Reading Together, educational consultant Diane W. Frankenstein shares the secret: guiding children to find an appropriate book and talking with them about the story helps them connect with what they read.

This engaging guide shares advice for parents, teachers, librarians, and caregivers on how to help children find what to read, and then through conversation, how to find meaning and pleasure in their reading. With more than 100 great book recommendations for kids from Pre-K through grade six, as well as related conversation starters, Reading Together offers a winning equation to turn children into lifelong readers. Some of the award-winning books discussed include Betty G. Birney's World According to Humphrey, Gennifer Choldenko's Notes from a Liar and Her Dog, and David Shannon's Bad Case of Stripes.

Grothe, Mardy Oxymoronica eBook

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ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox. examples: ""Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."" Victor Hugo ""To lead the people, walk behind them."" Lao-tzu ""You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap."" Dolly Parton You won't find the word ""oxymoronica"" in any dictionary (at least not yet) because Dr. Mardy Grothe introduces it to readers in this delightful collection of 1,400 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and Saint Augustine to great writers like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and G. B. Shaw to modern social observers like Woody Allen and Lily Tomlin, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. All areas of human activity are explored, including love, sex and romance, politics, the arts, the literary life, and, of course, marriage and family life. The wise and witty observations in this book are as highly entertaining as they are intellectually nourishing and are sure to grab the attention of language lovers everywhere.

HANDBK OF RESEARCH ON E-LEARNI (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Throughout the decades, a wide variety of methodologies and approaches to the teaching of languages have developed. In the current, technology driven environment, demand is high for new tools and student-centered collaborative learning approaches to promote students' language and communicative skills."The Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition" contributes over 50 authoritative research studies planning e-learning theory, pedagogy, methodologies and approaches developed and implemented by prominent international authors. An essential addition to the reference collection of any academic library, this commanding Handbook of Research will foster professional discussion and progress among researchers, practitioners, and educators in this rapidly developing field.

You, Clare Intermediate College Korean (Adobe Reader) eBook

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This companion volume to College Korean (California, 1992) enables students to continue their development of Korean language skills and to enrich their understanding of Korea. Because language is a fundamental component of culture, the text incorporates themes relating to Korea's cultural customs and social issues, presented in the form of dialogues, anecdotes, short essays, and poems. Also included are themes tied to the country's physical geography, including major cities, islands, and historical sites. Each lesson consists of a situation dialogue, core vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, grammar, and exercises on reading and listening comprehension. The vocabulary uses adult-level words from the media and professional worlds and ranges from computer terms to martial arts. Unlike other Korean language texts, Intermediate College Korean goes well beyond everyday survival skills and offers students a much wider exposure to both the language and culture of Korea. A reference section includes an index to patterns and grammar notes, a glossary, spelling tips, a list of connectives, and irregular verb charts.