Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398470859Author Nick SmethurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This new text will collate the CPS Charging Standards for the first time in a standalone volume. The Crown Prosecuction Service (CPS) have recently undertaken a systematic revision of the three documents commonly known as charging standards. These...

Adapted into the Channel 4 documentary 'Sex: My British Job' by Nick Broomfield. Ming and Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background, yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties and both came...

Pedagogical principles and practices to integrate social justice issues into your language classroom Covers social class and neoliberalism, intersectionality, race, ethnicity and antiracism, environmental justice, gender and sexual identity Includes...

Practical Journalism: How to Write News introduces the beginner to the skills needed to become a journalist in the digital age. The book draws on interviews with dozens of working journalists. They share their thoughts on the profession and we watch...

Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010.In the first book-length examination of Instagram, Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399513237Author Editors BerlitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts - spoken, written and...

English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the sixties, and throughout the rest of the century...

An intimate account of an anthropologist’s relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.Home Signs grew out of the anthropologist Joshua Reno’s experience of caring for and...

Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and...

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially mastered by the age of three, and with incredible ease and speed, despite the...

Selected as a 2023 Independent Press Award - Distinguished FavoriteEnjoy the world of colorful birds as they chirp, cheep, and squawk throughout various short stories. Five different varieties of birds are used in the stories; each story focuses on...

The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world.The last decade has seen the News industry face unprecedented change. The sometimes-century old institutions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782401084278Author Evelyne BARGEFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Editions HatierPublisher Editions HatierWeight(grams) 195g

"An exemplary textbook. Making even the most complex ideas fully accessible, it is grounded in an extensive literature, filled with engaging examples, and offers ample suggestions for independent research. It's been a key text in my classes for over a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989735179Author Greg DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Be Funny Inc.Publisher Be Funny Inc.Weight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Do you sometimes mix up your 'affects' and 'effects'? Do you know when to use 'less' or 'fewer'? And what about punctuation - would you like to feel sure about semicolons? Grammar can be tricky, but this book will stop you from making embarrassing...

This volume contains a collection of seminal articles and recent research which are important reading for anyone wanting to understand current theoretical developments within the field of language and literacy studies. The collection reflects a growing...

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet with the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger and their new alien micro-friend, Nok. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, this book is ideal for independent reading. When the...

Winner of the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry "From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present." Boston Globe After his...

Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading,...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310457541Author Passion PublishingPage Count 2016Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 1654gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 190mm * 57mm

This well-established and popular book provides students with all the linguistic background they need for studying any period of French literature. For the second edition the text has been revised and updated throughout, and the two final chapters on...

Engaging decodable stories fully aligned to Letters and Sounds enable your pupils to practise their phonics skills with their favourite characters. Written by Roderick Hunt MBE and illustrated by Alex Brychta, award-winning creators of the Oxford...

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows...

Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture. Presenting for the first time in English the work of influential scholars who worked with or...

The Level 4 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

Do you want to start teaching a language online, be your own boss and be able to work from anywhere that has wifi? Do you want to make a difference in the world by using your language skills to empower people and give them the confidence they need to...

Rabbit on the Run is based on Aesop's fable The Tortoise and the Hare, about the rabbit whose complacency leads him to underestimate the tortoise, who shows that slow and steady can win the race ... This popular story written by Alex Lane and...

In The Time Capsule, what will the the children put in their own time capsule? Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are an exciting new set of stories from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. Full of humour and drama with a delightful mixture...

At a time when millions travel around the planet - some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile - translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989236706Author Paula LarocqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Grey & Guvnor PressPublisher Grey & Guvnor PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

For thousands of years people have wondered how the world began. How the World Began includes creation myths that attempt to explain this. Meet gods, goddesses and giants at the beginning of time as they create the earth in these myths from China, North...

The Life of Leonardo is a biography of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest artists in history. Find out about his paintings, his weird writing and some of his incredible inventions. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to...

This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specialising in writing poetry. It offers the novice writer engaging and creative...

In The Canterville Ghost, an American family move to an old house in England, Canterville Chase. The resident ghost of Canterville Chase, Sir Simon de Canterville, doesn't want to share his home and haunts the house to scare the family away...

Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker in any of the languages concerned, but results from complex bilingual skills. The reasons why people...