Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440504917Author Syd FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Dell BooksWeight(grams) 301g

In 1934, a Belgian entrepreneur named Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a worldwide network of computers--or "electric telescopes," as he called them -- that would allow people anywhere in the world to search and browse through millions of books,...

Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field. ...

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide...

Do you scream over spiders or bolt from bats? In Scratch's Bad Reputations, Scratch the rat looks at animals that have a reputation for being scary but are they really bad, or just misunderstood? Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that...

This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's...

In Robo-Vac Connor's great-gran doesn't want her cleaning robot, so Connor takes it home. Unfortunately, Robo-Vac becomes more of a hindrance than a help and it wants to run Connor's life. How can Connor stop the robot without hurting its feelings? ...

Captivating versions of some of the best myths and legends from around the world. TreeTops Myths and Legends are fascinating and action-packed stories that will motivate and inspire readers. These are some of the oldest and most enduring stories in the...

Developed specifically for the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, Text for Scotland is written by a dedicated team of authors who have extensive experience of teaching in Scotland. Text for Scotland is a complete, unit-based resource for S1 and S2 that...

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. In this 2006 study, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare sign...

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success - and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and Researching Motivation reflects the dramatic changes in the field of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845242756Author Malcolm LlywelynFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf

Level 6 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...

Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046299Author Heather FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Check Your Vocabulary workbooks are aimed at learners of English who want to build vocabulary in a specific area. Check Your English Vocabulary Phrasal Verbs and Idioms is a new title in the range which focuses on an extremely important, yet difficult,...

"Intertextuality" is the overarching idea that all texts and conversations are linked to other texts and conversations, and that people create and infer meanings in discourse through making and interpreting these links. Intertextuality is fundamentally...

Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we build sentences. Whereas the grammar of English (or other languages) might look like a rather chaotic set of arbitrary patterns, linguistic science has revealed that these patterns can...

Novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609800980Author Susan G. WooldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787301282526Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Peking University PressPublisher Peking University PressWeight(grams) 127g

All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn't mean that whatever else makes up a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bram Stoker Awards (Nonfiction) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780982493915Author Michael KnostFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Knost EnterprisesPublisher Knost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547857Author Eric T. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Authoritative and accessible, this book introduces the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of EFL/ESL learners. While assuming no specialist knowledge, Ken Hyland systematically sets out the key issues of course design, lesson planning,...

Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing languages have never been described, or described only inadequately. This book is a guide for linguistic...

Shopping with Grandpa Fang is NEVER dull, thinks Small Fang. And he is not wrong! On a trip to buy Blood Buns (jam doughnuts) Grandpa Fang loses his fangs, knocks over a huge pile of tins, causes a cake catastrophe and terrifies the local children...

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. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501147227Author Charles JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and...

The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain. This thorough introduction to the psycholinguistics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646220854Author Melissa FebosFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909804364Author DH SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Earlham BooksPublisher Earlham Books

Cat and Ant are on a day out at the beach with Nok. Nok thinks he sees a grey cloud, but what is it really? Find out in The Seagull. In Nok Gets Homesick, the micro-friends build Nok a new spaceship, but how far will he get? When Nok shows off his...

Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex semiotic interactions. Practical exercises and examples as wide ranging as...

The first book of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" contains an interesting variety of material. It begins with myths related to the creation of the world and man, decline from the golden age, the flood and the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha. In the second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957670488Author Jane BettanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Dormouse Press, an imprint of Guidemark Publishing LtdPublisher Dormouse Press, an...

The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics provides a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in Forensic Linguistics. Forensic Linguistics is the study of language and the law, covering topics...

It's important in our daily lives for us to write clear English which is easily understood. If we get the basics wrong, our words may be misinterpreted and cause confusion. To make sure our written words convey our exact meanings, we need to understand...

Is a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's...