Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989387702Author Young Dreamers PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Young Dreamers PressPublisher YDP Creative IncWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965619Author Noah Van SciverFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

"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.When a girl with beautiful green eyes asks him for help, Greg...

Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume carries...

If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mind-set. Deeper learning is...

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. Find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784909367068Author Julian NorthbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Northbrook Language SystemsPublisher Northbrook Language SystemsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913432560Author Richard HarriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stairwell BooksPublisher Stairwell BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts and thinkers in stylistics. Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in other types of text. "Key Terms in...

Taking a hands-on and holistic approach to data, Data + Journalism provides a complete guide to reporting data-driven stories. This book offers insights into data journalism from a global perspective, including datasets and interviews with data...

Memory institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries and museums all share pressing concerns about preserving heritage, whether in the form of material and documentary cultural artefacts in collections, or in the form of new digitally born material...

This is a comprehensive guide for the millions of professional artists working today who seek financial support. This is a comprehensive guide to finding the funds and writing winning grants for the millions of professional artists working today who seek...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788360229491Author Anna SeretnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PrologPublisher Prolog

Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity. By taking each of these three elements -...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 7 years to 7 years 5 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Stage 4 Level 4B (equivalent to turquoise book band) Design supports readers with dyslexia...

Detailed yet accessible, Translation and Localization brings together the research and insights of veteran practicing translators to offer comprehensive guidance for technical communicators. The volume begins with the fundamentals of translation before...

Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law: describes the different registers and genres that make up spoken and...

Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past thirty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concepts are clearly explained without the excessive use of technical jargon. Analysing English Sentences continues in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982404Author Nassim Nicholas TalebFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

There are 6 books at Level 4: Book 19 'Revise and Blend' Book 20 'Revise and Blend' Book 21 practises 'ay, oy, ea, ie' Book 22 practises 'ow, ew, ew, ou' Book 23 practises 'ir, aw, eer, are' Book 24 practises 'ce, ea, o, ed' Each...

This book makes learning Old English easy. It contains a simplified grammar, a minimum of phonology, well-chosen selections from Old English prose, and rich selections from Old English poetry. The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West...

" Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject...

In this Norwegian story we learn about how bears lost their tails. Fox is jealous of Bear's big, fluffy tail so he decides to play a trick on him. Bear learns he should not believe everything he is told ... This charming story written by Susan Price...

Political Correctness "Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432701963Author Brent SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

"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 Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out...

Speech act theory has taught us "how to do things with words." Arresting Language turns its attention in the opposite direction-toward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting language...

This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ Church, Canterbury, over a period of about 100 years, from c. 1020 to c. 1130. The Harley Psalter was closely based on the Utrecht...

Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term 'Digital Humanities'...

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for...

Stretch your students to achieve their best grade with this year-round course companion; providing clear and concise explanations of all syllabus requirements and topics, and exam practice questions to support and strengthen learning.- Practice and...

Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication provides an instructive and practical guide to conducting research using methods in corpus linguistics in studies of various forms of online communication. Offering practical exercises and drawing on original...

Written by an experienced tutor, Savoir-Faire Plus is specifically designed to meet the requirements of today's generation of language undergraduates. Focusing on the life of an Anglophone first year undergraduate studying French in the UK and sharing a...

Responding to the trend of formulaic writing in the academic community, How To Write Differently offers a refreshing approach to academic writing in a practical format.The book explores how, in order to write differently, an author needs to embrace...

The Teacher's Resource Book includes: Full teaching notes Integrated answer keys and audioscripts Four photocopiable activities for every unit Mid course and end of course testsBook InformationISBN 9781408216804Author Jenny ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage...

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the author's experience of working with...

In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus", a summarised treatise on comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript. Its discoverer suggested that it derived from the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics", which inaugurated the...

'Uptalk' is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or (to put it more simply) the tendency for people to make statements that sound like questions, a phenomenon that has received wide exposure and commentary in...

Readers are essential agents in the production of bestsellers but bestsellers are not essential to readers' leisure pursuits. The starting point in this Element is readers' opinions about and their uses of bestselling fiction in English. Readers'...

Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar...