This is a comprehensive reference text that provides an accessible account of current theories of language and language learning together with practical ideas for teaching and assessing writing across the curriculum. It is an essential text for students of primary and secondary education as well as an ideal reference for practicing teachers, including ESL teachers.
American Headway is a multi-level series for adults and young adults who want to use American English both accurately and fluently. It includes grammar, vocabulary and dialogues. Grammar and vocabulary are taught and explained thoroughly, and all four language skills are developed systematically.
Recent developments in the European integration process have raised, amongst many other things, the issue of linguistic diversity, for some a stumbling block to the creation of a European democratic polity and its legal and social institutions. The solution to the 'question of language', involves an understanding of the role played by natural languages and the consequent design of policies and institutional mechanisms to facilitate inter-linguistic and intercultural communication. This is not an exclusively European problem, and nor is it entirely new, for it is also the problem of linguistic majorities and minorities within unitary nation-states. However, the effects of globalization and the diffusion of multiculturalism within nation-states have given renewed emphasis to the question of language in diverse societies. Facing the question anew involves reconsidering traditional ideas about social communication and the public sphere, about opinion-formation and diffusion, about the protection of cultural and linguistic minorities, and about the role that language plays in the process of formation of political and legal cultures. This volume is intended as a multidisciplinary contribution towards studying and assessing the range of problems that form the 'language question' in Europe and diverse societies.
Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 within four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic influence, multilingual speech production models, the multilingual lexicon and the impact of bi/multilingualism on cognitive development.
Defining more than 5,000 business words and expressions each, these pocket dictionaries are ideal take-along references for anyone conducting business in French- or German-speaking countries. Common business language, office phrases, stock market and trading terms, and accounting jargon are defined using vocabulary that is appropriate for nonnative speakers and beginning language students. This new edition of the German dictionary has been fully updated and revised to incorporate the new German spelling system.
