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Tracing the development of new technological skills and digital cultures, this book looks at the rise of new digital divides and reveals how these inequalities affect cross-cultural communication from a cultural discourse studies perspective in various...

This book examines how the intersecting influences of gender, race, developmental psychology, and public policy affect the development, status, and standing of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) as a field of practice. In order to understand how...

China through the Camera Lens combines Chinese language learning with film analysis, offering a unique and comprehensive learning experience beyond traditional methods.The book consists of twelve chapters, each based on a carefully selected short film or...

This book is a practical, evidence-based guide for educators at all levels on how to assess and to promote student learning, broadening teachers’ understanding of assessment. Balancing assessment with the development and promotion of student learning can...

This book is a practical, evidence-based guide for educators at all levels on how to assess and to promote student learning, broadening teachers’ understanding of assessment. Balancing assessment with the development and promotion of student learning can...

How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centred on the pre-eminence of the husband?How significant for an ambitious woman were her politics about men?At the heart...

In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children’s literature. Through analysis of her dozens of titles published during the height...

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development? This book explores the answers to this question by analyzing the development of interactional competence by two Vietnamese hotel staff members, one...

This volume does more than document an educational dynamic that impacts Latino populations across the United States; it also connects educational challenges to concrete plans for how those problems can be resolved. Both experienced and new scholars...

As one of the most recognized names in the fields of language assessment and applied linguistics, Lyle F. Bachman has published extensively and contributed a very high volume of journal articles, books, and conference presentations to the field. These...

Originally published in 1937, Number in the Nursery and Infant School surveys the teachings of Froebel, Montessori and Dewey, the prevalent theories in education at the time, and takes elements from each in order to outline a new method. The author was...

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **‘A really powerful book.’ - Bruce DaisleySimple tools, extraordinary results.Everything we’re learning about how we function best as humans in the digital age is pointing towards one of our oldest technologies: the...

Linguistics: A Functionalist Introduction is a concise, accessible guide to the fundamentals of language and expression for students that are new to the subject.Unlike other introductions this book uses a functionalist framework that reflects the way...

Dieses Open Access-Buch bietet eine historisch ausgerichtete Untersuchung juristisch-notarieller Dokumente aus Neu-Spanien an der Schnittstelle zwischen romanistischer Textlinguistik und Translationswissenschaft. Konkret wird ein umfassendes Korpus aus...

This collection explores the translation of dialogue from the adaptations of literary classics across audiovisual media, engaging with the question of what makes a classic through an audiovisual translation lens. The volume seeks to fill a gap on the...

This book explores the intersections of education and technology in audiovisual translation, unpacking the evolution of AVT ecosystems and looking ahead to future directions for the role of technology in the translation industry and higher education.The...

This practical textbook is designed as core reading for pre-service and in-service teachers and mental health practitioners in upper level Education and Psychology programs. Key concepts addressed in this case study collection include Inclusive Education...

A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning presents an exposition of current thinking, research, and best practices in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Digital Humanities (DH), and...

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of...

The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish,...

Supervision plays a central role in supporting professional practice, practitioner wellbeing, clinical governance and client safety. This anthology, designed as a collection of possibilities rather than a definitive guide, offers a window into a less...

This accessible and inclusive new textbook introduces Child Language Acquisition (CLA) with unique coverage of bilingual and early second language development as well as first languages. The majority of children worldwide will grow up to be bi- or...

Polyvagal theory provides a breakdown of how the nervous system responds and reacts to unconscious messages of safety and threat. This accessible guide explores polyvagal theory and its potential for fully understanding and supporting the behaviours of...

Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.Robinson’s engagement with translational aspects of Finnegans Wake provides...

This fascinating book provides a groundbreaking resource for innovative approaches to qualitative inquiry that address equity and justice and equip readers with tools to enact these approaches in their own work.Comprising contributions from award-winning...

This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the...

This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With contributions by established and emerging scholars in the field, this collection explores and expounds, with...

Morphological typology is usually limited to the realm of grammar. Accordingly, English is considered an analytic language due to its poor grammatical morphology – but what about the lexicon? Taking a twofold approach, this study investigates the...

Efficient drills on LSAT formal logic patterns, Logic Game rule translation, Logical Reasoning argument analysis, and all the common questions and game types on the test. Prep for the LSAT on the go with Kaplan’s LSAT Flashcards, 400 cards to help you...

This book throws new light on an important selection of forty manuscripts from the Bodleian’s collections of medieval and renaissance Greek manuscripts. The introduction contains up-to-date evidence about the provenance of the collection and detailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorExplore the world through accurate and up-to-date mapping.Book InformationISBN 9780008696061Author Collins MapsFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint...

Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate...

Shedding light on the nuances of cross-cultural communication, this edited volume offers insights into how Chinese Malaysians, a major ethnic group, navigate the complexities of translating across diverse languages.This book unveils the unique landscape...

Letters from prison testifying to deeply felt ethical principles have a long history, extending from antiquity to the present day. In the early modern era, the rise of printing houses helped turn these letters into a powerful form of political and...

Dieses Fachbuch enthält ein schulklassenbasiertes Durchführungsmanual für Lehrkräfte, Schulsozialarbeiter:innen, Schulpsycholog:innen und weitere an Schulen tätige Trainingskräfte. Das Ziel des SPuR-Präventionsprogramms ist es, frühzeitig einen...

Hafsah and Bilal are not looking for love. She has her faith, her books, her dreams. Bilal…well he's just trying to get through uni. Studying in London, far from their hometowns of Bradford and Birmingham, they find common ground over a peanut butter and...

Thinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the anti-intellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial...

Prep for the GRE on the go with Kaplan's GRE Vocabulary Flashcards. This set of 500 essential flashcards help you build strong vocabulary skills so you can master the GRE Verbal Reasoning section of the test. Plus, a web-based app lets you review your...

This book seeks to complement the traditional scope of translation studies, which has primarily centered on translating English into other languages. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the opposite translation trajectory—moving from Chinese...

In AIM High, Jacqueline Pei and Lia M. Daniels combine their decades of theoretical and applied expertise to bring motivation theory alongside the practice of psychological assessment. The book highlights the opportunity to stand with children and their...