English Grammar in Use - Practical Exercises (English Grammar in Use - Practical Exercises, #4)
by Anna Stefanowicz-Kocol and Leszek Smutek
Turkey is often visualized as a modern nation-state having a perfect balance of Eastern and Western cultural mores and traditions within dominant ideological constructions and representations, but on closer inspection, one can detect conflicts and contradictions within various texts - particularly in regards to depictions of gender and sexual identity. Upon its foundation as a nation, Turkey embarked on a state-centered, elite-driven path toward modernization and Westernization while also seeki...
A rich man leaves his farm and returns to England, but is that really where he's gone? A farmer gets revenge on a man who steals his animals, but how? A photographer disappears - what has happened? These stories, by Australian writers, all have a surprise at the end. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language,...
The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster and tragedy to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder's uncle gives the diamond to her as a birthday present, but the same night, it is stolen. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low read...
Expressing ourselves well in written communication is important to many areas of our lives, and essential in the working world. Many courses that seek to prepare students for professional writing, however, overlook the fact that most real-world writing is produced by and for people working within groups. Teaching Writing That Works offers composition instructors an alternative to the conventional composition course in which one individual (a student) writes in isolation for another isolated indi...
This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets these alongside parallel studies in journalism and film. However, it is also concerned with larger philosophical and historical notions of closure, impermanence, rupture and apocalypse as well as the possibilities of «posthumous»...
Point of View in Fiction and Film (American University Studies, #133)
by Charles Garard
The Art of Dying (American University Studies Series 24: American Literature, #56)
by Deborah S. Gentry
Understanding the Reading Needs of English Language Learners (ESOL for Different Professions)
by Jeff Popko
English Language Leaners in the United States are expected to read "at grade level" in all their courses after just a single year of ESL classes, despite the fact that many enter the U.S. school system without adequate preparation. Because these students must read well in all subject areas, all teachers - not only ESL teachers - are, in many ways, English Teachers. In this book Popko explains in a practical, easy-to-understand terms the challenges that English Learners face when it comes to rea...
New Ways in Teaching Adults (New Ways in TESOL)
This revised volume brings together the best of the past with suggestions for the future and proves that teachers' imaginations continue to produce an interesting and varied range of ways to learn English within the broad guidelines of communicative language learning. New Ways in Teaching Adults, Revised provides classroom teachers with a range of activities for all stages of the learning process. The many activities included encourage discovery learning, provide practice, and extend students' l...
Animals ABC Book For Toddlers (Animals ABC Book for Toddlers, #5)
by Sophia Sally
Scotland to Slovenia
The contributions to this volume focus on issues of identity and communication in Europe. A multiplicity of regions and nations are discussed with regard to their languages, literatures and cultures: Scotland, Wales, England, Northern Ireland, Brittany, Scandinavia, Slovenia, Poland and even Japan. Problems of translating and interpreting receive attention in papers ranging from the cultural specificity of rules of communication and the cultural status of source texts to text structures and pros...
AQA 9-1 GCSE English Language Practice Papers
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature, #112)
by Richard H Osberg
U.S. Citizenship Test Questions (Multilingual Edition) in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog and Vietnamese