Language Arts & Disciplines

This book investigates the morphosyntax, semantics and discourse properties of focus and wh-constructions in Hausa, and introduces readers to aspects of the syntax of a major world language unfamiliar to most linguists. Represents the first detailed...

Tabloid Britainexamines four popular tabloid newspapers and uncovers the variety of linguistics strategies they use to depict contemporary Britain. These strategies are shown to construct, in a circular fashion, an impersonation of the language of the...

Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism explores contemporary UK national and local newspapers at a significant and pivotal moment in their development when some pundits are busily, if mistakenly, announcing their demise.The book offers a...

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success - and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. This fully revised edition of a groundbreaking work reflects the dramatic changes the field of motivation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780910355285Author James Scott BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Compendium PressPublisher Compendium PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The use of English as a global lingua franca has given rise to new challenges and approaches in our understanding of language and communication. One area where ELF (English as a lingua franca) studies, both from an empirical and theoretical orientation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946995346Author Randy EllefsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Evermore Press, LLCPublisher Evermore Press, LLCWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561943632Author Liu XunFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

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...

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The Level 2 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 and More Stories B offer a predictable...

In Fur from Home Animal Adventures, sheep from space are trying to deliver the intergalactic post, Royston the cat dreams of visiting London, and Baxter the bear is travelling south to find his dad. Join them on their amazing journeys. Chucklers is a...

Appreciated by thousands of thoughtful students, successful managers, and aspiring senior leaders around the world Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness skillfully integrates theory, research, and real-world case studies into models designed to...

This textbook provides a thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons the author concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation. The book is written for students who...

The colour coded verb table allows the reader to focus all of their attention on one colour tense at a time enabling them to make immediate connections between the subject and the verb! The Norwegian LearnBots are a great resource for dyslexic learners,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845279059Author Guto RhysFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

'Publish or perish' is a well-established adage in academia. Never has the pressure on academics to publish been greater. Yet the prospect of writing a book can seem daunting, while the business of getting it published may be mystifying. Written by an...

"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.The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of...

In Kid Wonder and the Half-Hearted Hero Kid Wonder faces her toughest test yet. How can she get the hopeless superhero, Doughnut Boy, to take his job seriously? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and...

Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama. A Guide to Creative Writing and the...

The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100187Author Evelyn AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)...

English Grammar:* helps users to understand grammatical concepts * encourages the reader to practise applying newly discovered concepts to everyday texts* teaches students to analyze almost every word in any English text* provides teachers and students...

Designed for beginning undergraduates studying for degrees in English, this textbook provides an introduction to a range of sociolinguistic theories and the insights they provide for a greater understanding of varieties of English, past and present...

These four tests closely replicate the level, content and presentation of the IELTS Listening, Academic Reading, Academic Writing, and Speaking modules. Strategies and skills exercises provide guidance on how to approach each task. Includes access to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375722271Author Arthur PlotnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 212mm...

The notorious French philosopher, literary critic and film star(!) First translated in 1983, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays provide...

Multilingualism is a meaningful and capacious idea about human meaning-making practice, one with a promising, tumultuous, and flawed present - and a future worth caring for in research and public life. In this book, David Gramling presents original new...

This book explores the art of poetry writing from a practice-based perspective, showing how form, trope and theory inform the practical craft of writing poems. It is divided into three key sections: Form and structure, covering sonnets, ballads, blank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599637068Author James Scott BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345478177Author Bret LottFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204g

Bertha and Fiona are twins. In Bertha's Secret Battle Bertha is fed up with everyone booing her in the wrestling ring and cheering Fiona. It's not fair. Why does Fiona always win? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling...

Can we talk about the news media without proclaiming journalism either our savior or the source of all evil? It is not easy to do so, but it gets easier if we put the problems and prospects of journalism in historical and comparative perspective, view...

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field. We are confronted daily with cases of lying, deception, bullshitting, and 'fake...

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...

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, shows how different types of evidence can shed light on the myriad ways...

Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy is a cutting-edge collection of empirical research conducted by top scholars focusing on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) and offering a direct contribution to second language pedagogy by closing the...