Language Arts & Disciplines

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits, motivation, or...

This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies...

Language is not simply a tool for communication - symbolic power struggles underlie any speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face conversations, online tweets or political debates. This book provides a clear and accessible...

In Bin Goblins, a puppeteer shows children how to make a Bin Goblin puppet out of recycled household items. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The...

In Tiger x 4, Tiger tries to fix the ship's fabricator, accidently creating three copies of himself! Can the micro-friends turn the disaster to their advantage when the Krools attack? Our heroes land on Planet Akwa and meet some of the local aliens ...

In Tyrannosaurus Max, Max's Dad is always inventing things and one day he creates some robot dinosaurs. When two robbers steal one of the dinosaurs and break into the bank, it's down to Max and his tyrannosaurus to save the day! This book was previously...

Some children can hear and can speak, yet have trouble understanding or producing utterances. In this accessible introduction to children's language difficulties, Shula Chiat explores the stumbling blocks which lie behind their struggle. The uniqueness...

50 Scientifically-Supported Techniques to Create More Confident and Compelling Speakers Speaking Up without Freaking Out by Matt Abrahams is an easy-to-read book containing over 50 anxiety management techniques that are based on scientifically...

The spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. More than static backgrounds for bookselling, these dynamic spaces both shape individual and collective behaviors and perceptions and are shaped by the values and practices...

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable...

Level 3 of a 6 levelled new course that includes rich international content to teach reading comprehension, writing and speaking and listening skills to first and second language learners. Step-by-step teaching scaffolding, clear learning objectives and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692127919Author Barbara Demarco-BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Mars Street PressPublisher Mars Street PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Why we can't resist listening in on our neighbours Eavesdropping has a bad name. It is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen, and where such words as cheating and spying come into play. But eavesdropping may also be...

As the sun goes down, it is time for the owl to wake up! It is a busy night for the owl as it hunts down its prey and brings it back to the nest for a hungry chick. As the sun comes up, it is time for the tired owl to go to sleep. Part of the Bug Club...

This is a lively and exciting resource which includes writing frames, grammar and vocabulary development and language practice exercises. Each Workbook is closely linked to the Students' Books and so provides opportunities for students to gain a deeper...

The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to...

This is a book for scientists and other experts who need to explain the significance and potential of their work to colleagues, committees, funding bodies or the general public. It details how to harness story-telling principles to make complex or...

Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world...

The first two stories are wordless and complement Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds. Max's Box is a retelling of the story of how Max finds a silver box - a discovery that will change his life forever. Inside the box are four watches that allow the wearer to...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. In...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that...

Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory more than...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. This...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Ants...

The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making. Multimodality: A Social...

Language, Gender and Feminism presents students and researchers with key contemporary theoretical perspectives, methodologies and analytical frameworks in the field of feminist linguistic analysis.Mills and Mullany cover a wide range of contemporary...

The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide both wordless stories and a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills with simple first words and sentences. ...

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...

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts...

80 pages of extra practice - one for each lesson in the Student's Book. The practice pages include grammar tables, writing exercises, practise and learn boxes, and review sections after every four lessons.One page - one lesson - one...

Someone is hacking into Jake's computer and causing him a lot of embarrassment.Book InformationISBN 9780435070892Author David GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 67gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

"What might have been a forbidding chronological slog is thoroughly enlivened by Conboy's thematic approach, shot through with passion and rigour in equal measure. This is a book written with a commitment to the importance of history for the present; it...

There are 6 books at Level 2: Book 7 practises 'j v w' Book 8 practises 'x y z' Book 9 practises 'zz qu ch' Book 10 practises 'sh th ng' Book 11 practises 'j dge wh' Book 12 practises 'cks tch nk' Each sound is explored through an Oxford Reading...

If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems has evolved into a science that declares the...

Covering all the Framework objectives using a clearly structured and rigorous approach, "Nelson Thornes Framework English" offers an attractive and dynamic route through the demands of the Framework for Teaching English, Years 7-9, laying particular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393953459Author Jerome S. BrunerFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Cat is painting a picture at school. Nok wants to help, but will he make it any better or will he just make a mess? Find out in Cat's Painting. Ant, Tiger and Nok are playing in the garden when Nok starts to feel hot. How can a micro-alien cool down?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874775433Author Sam KeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 157mm...

Text Linguistics of Qur'anic Discourse is an in-depth investigation of the fabric of Qur'anic Discourse. It unravels the texture of the macro Qur'anic text; its cohesion and coherence systems; the notions of intertextuality, semantic relatedness, and...