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Language Exploration and Awareness
A Resource Book for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
"Language Exploration and Awareness: A Resource Book for Teachers, Third Edition" shows English teachers how they can expand their curriculum beyond the traditional emphases on grammar and syntax, to help their students learn about many aspects of the English language, including general...
Constraints on Language Acquisition
Studies of Atypical Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interaction of innate biologically-based mechanisms devoted to language, other non-linguistic cognitive and social mechanisms, linguistic input, and information...
by Cornelia Richter
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: English Rules the World? The Globalisation of English, 14 entries in the bibliography,...
Mastering Deep Point of View
Simple Steps to Make Your Stories Irresistible to Your Readers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
A quick guide to a key writing craft by Writer’s Fun Zone Publishing.
"Nothing else does more to make a reader love the characters or to allow her to share in the characters’ emotions [than deep point of view]." ~Alice Gaines
You understand parts of speech, how to craft...
by Elizabeth Yakel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996
Starting an Archives is designed for institutional administrators, archivists, and records managers thinking about beginning a historical records program in their organization. The book covers the decision making process which should precede the establishment of an archival program, outlines the first...
The Themes of Quine's Philosophy
Meaning, Reference, and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Willard Van Orman Quine's work revolutionized the fields of epistemology, semantics and ontology. At the heart of his philosophy are several interconnected doctrines: his rejection of conventionalism and of the linguistic doctrine of logical and mathematical truth, his rejection of the analytic/synthetic...
by A. Denkel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development of forms of animal communication, and explains this process by naturalising the Locke-Grice approach. The roots of meaning are contained in observable regularities, which are manifestations...
Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
New Essays on §§1-88
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections §§1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening. The methodological conviction that subtends the volume is that the highly unconventional...
by Margaret Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning. This book tells two stories: the story of how scholars in the west have conceived of the fact that human languages share important properties...
What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?
The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are Reuven Tsur’s point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing...
Teaching English Language Learners
Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms provides a reader-friendly guide to implementing and assessing high-level, content-area instruction for English Language Learners. Beginning with an overview of second language acquisition and the...
The Dictionary of Made-Up Languages
From Elvish to Klingon, The Anwa, Reella, Ealray, Yeht (Real) Origins of Invented Lexicons
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Can you converse in Klingon? Ask an Elf the time of day? Greet a speaker of Esperanto? These are among the more than 100 constructed languages you'll find in this book. For each one, author Stephen D. Rogers provides vocabulary, grammatical features, background information on the language and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language in academic settings, also referred to academic language, has gained attention in the field of second language learning owing to new understandings of the complexities of language inherent in learning academic content, and new efforts to assess English learners’ language proficiency in...
by Juha Salmela
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The Reference Heaven of Positive Words, Swiss Army Knife and Tool Chest of Positive Language.
You will get your hands on:
Most extensive reference book of positive words.
Over 5000 uplifting words.
Positive adjectives, nouns and verbs.
Positive interjections and exclamations.
Definitions...