If you have problems with getting your students interested and motivated - you might find these stories useful. Most of them are packed with exercises you can use, so they could be a great help for a busy teacher. They are divided into four categories: crime, funny, people and various, and their basic function is to encourage students to use the second language intuitively and actively, in contrast to passive soaking up of information.
Mitchell S. Green presents a systematic philosophical study of self-expression - a pervasive phenomenon of the everyday life of humans and other species, which has received scant attention in its own right. He explores the ways in which self-expression reveals our states of thought, feeling,
and experience, and he defends striking new theses concerning a wide range of fascinating topics: our ability to perceive emotion in others, artistic expression, empathy, expressive language, meaning, facial expression, and speech acts. He draws on insights from evolutionary game theory, ethology,
the philosophy of language, social psychology, pragmatics, aesthetics, and neuroscience to present a stimulating and accessible interdisciplinary work.
The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from "Superman" to "Clark Kent") affects the truth-value of a sentence. Jennifer Saul has shown that this can occur even in the simplest of sentences. She presents the first full-length treatment of this puzzling feature of language, and explores its implications for the theory of reference and names, and for the methodology of semantics.
NorthStar 1st ed. is an integrated, four-level series with two powerful strands. One focuses on developing listening and speaking skills, while the other focuses on reading and writing. The parallel books in each strand are linked at each level by theme, grammar and vocabulary. Because each pair of books explores the same themes from a different angle, the language is reinforced and recycled while the content remains fresh and exciting.
Strategies for Success, by H. Douglas Brown, enables students and teachers to take a fresh look at the learning process. Its strategies-based instruction guides students to become aware of their learning styles and to develop strategies to make their language learning successful. It can be used to enhance any English language course. The book's twelve chapters focus on concepts from self-awareness and affective styles to multiple intelligences and the cultural aspects of learning a language.
Features:
* Questionnaires in every chapter help learners assess their learning styles.
* Discussions encourage students to explore language-learning strategies, take risks, build self-confidence, and acquire successful test-taking strategies.
* End of chapter exercises help users practice all language skills as they develop learning strategies.
