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A scholar's guide to getting published in english
This book aims to demystify the practices of scholarly publishing in English. It focuses on practices, institutions and politics rather than language and writing. Drawing on 10 years of research into academic publishing and writing practices, it provides a guide for readers to relate to their own...
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English for academic purposes
This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of the historical development and ongoing trajectory of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). It examines a wide range of crucial topics in EAP, concluding with a glimpse into the future as the author considers the threats posed...
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Mandarin chinese dual language immersion programs
This book discusses multiple aspects of Chinese dual language immersion programs, focusing on the Utah model. Themes include how to build a supportive classroom, the views of those involved, teacher identities, strategy use, corrective feedback, Chinese-character teaching, and the translanguaging...
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Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers.Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere Uni...
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Sheng
Of interest to linguists, artists, ma-youth, scholars of urban studies, educationalists, policy makers and language planners who are grappling with the challenges of multilingualism and language of education in Kenya.The city of Nairobi is a rich context for the study of sociolinguistic phenomena...
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Kamba proverbs from eastern kenya
A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets.Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical a...
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Rough guides phrasebook mandarin
Rough Guide Mandarin Phrasebook Compact, clear, and packed with key words and phrases to help conversation, this pocket-sized Mandarin phrasebook and dictionary from Rough Guides' trusted language experts (with free app) is a trusty travel companion, and all you need to make yourself understood...
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Berlitz picture dictionary arabic
Berlitz Picture Dictionary Arabic. With over 2,000 essential words and phrases, this stylish, pocket-sized Arabic picture dictionary from Berlitz's trusted language experts makes communicating quick and easy. -Developed by a team of Berlitz language experts, each book in this stylish series of ...
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Modern standard arabic grammar, revised and updated
This comprehensive guide to Arabic grammar is an essential resource for the first five years of language learning and beyond, now in a revised editionThorough and carefully organized, this book covers all the basic structures and grammar that students need for the first five years of learning Mod...
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Media arabic for beginners
An introductory media Arabic book for the elementary and low intermediate levelsWith the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels, students of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) have access to an increasingly vast range of print and broadcast news from the Arab world. Media ...
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Rediscovering ancient egyptian literature through arabic poetics
A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterpartsThis book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan compares the stylistic Arabic literary device of...
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Advanced arabic through discussion
A creative approach to Arabic language learning through lively topical discussion
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From ibn sina to sindbad
A unique textbook of guided readings from the great works of Arabic prose for advanced level students of Classical Arabic literature From Ibn Sina to Sindbad makes some of the greatest works of the Golden Age of Arab Civilization accessible to Arabic students at the mid- to high-advanced level o...
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Challenges in teaching arabic as a foreign language
An essential collection of empirical studies on the TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) classroom experience, by leading professionals in the fieldAlthough teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) has grown inexorably in recent decades, there is a dearth of empirical research on the...
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Reading comprehension in polish and english
This book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading. The main aim of the book is to explore reading in English in the foreign/second language context as...
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Classical chinese primer (reader + workbook)
Classical Chinese Primer is meant to be an attempt to address the urgent need in the teaching and learning of Classical Chinese. Designed for those who have studied Modern Chinese for one or two years, but who have had no exposure to Classical Chinese before, Classical Chinese Primer is in a set ...
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Learning chinese language and culture
Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate-level textbook intended for students who have completed introductory courses in Chinese as a foreign language. Written in English and in both traditional and simplified Chinese, this book illustrates Chinese-language knowledge and introduce...
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Chaoyue workbook: advancing in chinese
Paired with the Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese language text, this workbook completes one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive language instruction tools currently available. The workbook cements students' interpersonal communication skills and their ability to present and interpret Chinese...
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Business chinese
This textbook is designed for students of Chinese as a second/foreign language who have had three years of study at college. Focus on topics of international business and foreign trade, the book offers advanced training in vocabulary, grammar, and rhetoric. With an emphasis on communication and p...
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A primer for advanced beginners of chinese
As the teaching of Chinese increasingly uses simplified characters, this new version of the popular A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese fills an important gap in Chinese-language instruction.The two-volume primer is addressed to meet the needs of the rapidly growing number of Chinese langu...
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The transpacific flow
This is the first book-length account of university-based creative writing programs in China.
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A handbook for 1,000 basic chinese characters
Each of the 1,000 basic Chinese characters in this volume is chosen with beginners in mind. Each character is accompanied by a detailed analysis, explaining the equivalent meaning in English with ample bilingual samples; common collocations and their related idiomatic usage; tone and pronunciatio...
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Developing intercultural competence through english
The volume offers a valuable result of a joint intercultural project between two universities from the neighbouring countries of Poland and Ukraine. Among the mass of books on intercultural communication, the proposed volume distinguishes itself by three features: unusual format combining the wor...
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Readings in classic chinese short stories
This textbook is designed for learners of advanced Chinese. It includes eleven well-known pieces of writings by the late Ming writer Feng Menglong. Each piece is juxtaposed with the common expressions and sentence structures used in the text, alongside the Hanyu Pinyin.
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Patterns in language and communication
Bringing together linguistics and media and communication studies, this volume showcases interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of patterns in language and communication. Defining ‘patterns’ as empirical surface phenomena, the contributions focus on a strictly empirical, data-driven perspec...
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The epistle of forgiveness
Known as “one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature” (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qari. With biting irony, T...
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Leg over leg
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ...
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Classical arabic literature
A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative end notes and bibliography for advanced scholars. ...
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The grand tour of prince george of denmark in england, 1669
This annotated diary describes the politics, cultural richness and practicalities of elite educational travel in England during the early reign of Charles II.Prince George of Denmark is best known to Anglophone historiography for having married Queen Anne of Great Britain, in 1683. This critical ...
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Linearization in functional discourse grammar
This volume develops Functional Discourse Grammar’s innovative and unique approach to constituent ordering, both by refining some of its theoretical tenets, and by applying it to data from a variety of languages (including Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, European and South American Spanish,...
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Les unités prédicatives autonomes averbales
This book takes a fresh look at sentences known as averbal, nominal or verbless. It explains in detail the specific nature of these structures and the various patterns that emerge from them. It is based on quantified analyses of a literary corpus of novels and plays and, to a lesser extent, of co...
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Language in social interaction
The central idea underlying the studies in this volume is that when speakers act in social context language acquires a social signature whose details have not yet been fully understood. This volume brings together eleven original, empirical studies in the fields of conversation analysis, interact...
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Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface
The book series offers a platform for usage and corpus based, theoretical and methodical, synchronic and diachronic studies aiming at all forms of formulaicity – linguistic, cognitive, conceptual – at all levels of language system and in language use as well as in not purely linguistic areas.
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Hands-on english language learning for early years (grades 1-3)
The Hands-On English Language Learning program is a resource for classroom teachers, specialist teachers working with English-language learners, and other educational professionals who support these students. To assist your students in developing language skills, this resource includes: specif...
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The more-than-just-surviving handbook
This revised and expanded edition of the 1990 bestseller includes the latest research in language acquisition: how to teach reading and writing and how to develop listening and speaking skills. It is filled with the authors’ trademark anecdotes and practical advice, based on their many years of ...
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Hands-on english language learning for middle years (grades 4-6)
Hands-On English Language Learning program is a resource for classroom teachers, specialist teachers working with English-language learners, and other educational professionals who support these students. In developing the resource, the authors referred to current curricular documents and to rese...
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Assessment and esl
The revised and expanded edition of this bestseller is a comprehensive, easy-to-read resource that explores the theory and practice of ESL assessment. Written for anyone working with English-language learners (elementary and secondary, mainstream and ESL), this new edition of Assessment and ESL p...
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The early modern travels of manchu
A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern worldManchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuri...
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The philosopher responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, Th...
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The epistle of forgiveness
One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter written by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgivenes...
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