Language teaching and learning material and course Books

The Art of Pronunciation is a book written by Pierre Charles De Laslier in 1869. This book provides an easy method for increasing the power of the voice in both speaking and singing. The author emphasizes the importance of proper pronunciation in...

'A powerful little book: sure-footed, simple, feisty, funny, and profoundly helpful'' Five Stars (The Independent)Punctuate with confidence the easy way! A quick, funny, illustrated guide to all the punctuation you’ll ever need to know...

Is it hunger pains or hunger pangs? Some time or sometime? Lay or lie? Butt naked or buck naked? Retroactive from or retroactive to? Does Your Flamingo Flamenco? The Best Little Dictionary of Confusing Words and Malapropisms contains over 250...

This book is a bare bones workbook with worksheets for elementary or middle school English students as well as ESL students. It is designed as a compliment to a live or online course in English grammar. It contains practice and exercises for a variety of...

The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for "about every third word of discourse". Located at the intersection of pragmatics and grammar,...

This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language...

In this volume, which simultaneously honors the career contributions of Jean Berko Gleason and provides an overview of a broad and increasingly important research area, a panel of highly productive language researchers share and evaluate methods of...

Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines. This development is well demonstrated in this important and unique volume, which offers a multidisciplinary view of current findings...

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species. Vocalizations in the very first months of life appear to provide previously...

This book tries to answer the question posed by Minsky at the beginning of The Society of Mind: "to explain the mind, we have to show how minds are built from mindless stuff, from parts that are much smaller and simpler than anything we'd considered...

In an attempt to fill the gap left by the many published studies on classroom second language research, this book explores a variety of human, social, and political issues involved in the carrying out of such studies. Many journals are chock-full of the...

This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the contents of the talks, and thus the chapters, varied widely, all had one thing in common -- they were...

The vast majority of work in theoretical linguistics from a generative perspective is based on first language acquisition and performance. The vast majority of work on second language acquisition is carried out by scholars and educators working within...

This volume is a festschrift dedicated to James J. Jenkins, a pioneer in many areas of experimental psychology. It has three major goals: to provide a forum for debate on current theoretical issues in cognitive psychology, to capture the "state of the...

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1988. This is a collection of essays that were presented at or generated afterwards at a meeting on language acquisition Society Development in April 1981: a symposium on "The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Whatever...

First published in 1987. This book is about the processing of information. The central domain of interest is face-to-face communication in which the speaker makes available both audible and visible characteristics to the perceiver. Articulation by the...

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel and weapons systems, arms control and disarmament talks...

This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal...

Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English...

This volume presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions and grammars are created.

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar,...

This book advances the trend toward field methods in rhetorical scholarship by collecting distinct chapters based on the same object of study - the University of Nevada, Reno's Masterplan that extends the University into the adjacent community.

Public speaking is one of the most important skills in personal and professional life. Yet too often this key ability is neglected, leading to presentations which are dull, uninspired and poorly delivered.The Craft of Public Speaking examines some of the...

The Academic Word List in Use is ideal for students wishing to go overseas to study and for people who do not have academic goals of this kind but are travelling overseas for holidays, business trips, or to work in an English speaking country and need...

Workbook 1 is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude...

""Decisions of Charles Shaw Lefevre, Speaker of the House of Commons, on Points of Order, Rules of Debate, and the General Practice of the House"" is a book written by Robert Bourke in 1857. The book contains the rulings and decisions made by Charles...

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure of real discourse materials.

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide, third edition, is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume.

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook, third edition, is a book of exercises and language tasks to facilitate practice and reinforce language use.

An Athenian Farmer - fed up with the unending war against the Spartans - feeds so much of the shit the war has brought him to a dung-beetle that he is able to saddle it up and ride it - flying to the house of Zeus - there to plead the case for Peace.....

Les mots français: Vocabulaire, lectures et sujets de conversation presents a clear, thorough and systematic overview of modern French vocabulary on a variety of subjects. Written in the target language, each of the 32 chapters is divided into the...

The major aim of this book is to introduce the ways in which scientists approach and think about a phenomenon -- hearing -- that intersects three quite different disciplines: the physics of sound sources and the propagation of sound through air and other...

"Those who can't be bothered with another dry grammar guide owe it to themselves to give this a look."-Publishers Weekly Grammar rules! Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life will convert certified grammar goofballs...

Why do commas have so many rules? Does the period go before or after the quotation mark? How do I use an ellipsis? When is it appropriate to use a dash? What is an "en" dash anyway? Is a semicolon much different from a colon? Would it be better...

This expanded edition of The Evasion-English Dictionary comprises 50+ entries on common evasions and slang including "like," "whatever," "I'm sorry if," "actually," "so," "sorry"...

This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and...

Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers on the study of the morphology and syntax of the two major Romance Languages spoken in Latin America...

Clinical Cases in Dysfluency is an imperative work that introduces dysfluency in clinical and cultural contexts while encouraging reflection on clinical decision-making involving the assessment and management of clients. With inputs from eminent clinical...

We must be disciplined to achieve our life dreams. This book discusses all kinds of disciplines and how discipline help us out in any situation, especially self-discipline. It also provides many examples of how discipline especially self-discipline could...

*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)**Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers (2022)**Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young...

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates.It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its...

The main objective of the book is to present a systematic account of the constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization. Such an account strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach because nominalizations are...

***Traditional Chinese Edition***A movie star, a politician's nephew, and a photograph with compromising implications, Gao Ming (Sherlock Holmes) faces a high stakes case involving the international community of 1920's Shanghai. With the trusty Dr...

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, ended his second—and final—term in office on January 20th, 2017.For eight years, President Obama, along with then-First Lady Michelle Obama, worked to define a new America; a...

En noviembre de 2007, Laura y yo presentamos la impresión artesanal de una primera reflexión sobre la lectura y la adaptación de Antígona de Sófocles. Se hizo un tiraje de 100 ejemplares y prácticamente para 2014 se han agotado más de 500 ejemplares...