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Alpha Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours

Adults often begin writing and realized that they don't remember all the rules they learned in Mrs. Peacock's 8th grade English class.


Most adults in the workplace today have purchased -- on at least one occasion -- a writing guide. Grammar, style, punctuation, sentence structure and irregular verbs are all elements of grammar and style that we often just don't know anymore.


And for anyone who has to communicate professionally -- whether a formal business presentation or a general improvement in their everyday conversational ability -- has gone to the bookstore to look for a grammar and style guide.


Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours is a straightforward guide to everything from basic nouns and verbs to expressing clear thought in writing. Based on the proven Teach Yourself formula, the authors will construct 24 1-hour lessons on grammar and style that build sequentially. Since grammar and style work together, readers can see how one chapter affects the next as they progress.

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Alpha Teach Yourself Business Plans in 24 Hours by Michael Miller

Alpha Teach Yourself Business Plans in 24 Hours is a step-by-step guide for writing a business plan that any entrepreneur can provide to bankers, venture capital firms, and other potential investors.


The author explains what investors look for in a business plan and shows how to create a plan that will result in funding and support


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University Language A Corpus-Based Study of Spoken and Written Registers (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 23)

As linguists, we know that language matters. But to many people it might come as a surprise to realize that when students begin their university life, some of their main problems are linguistic ones.
 
 
 
When students fail to communicate with professors in an appropriate register, or allow the relaxed style of a lecture to disrupt the formality of a term paper, they are falling into linguistic traps for which no one has prepared them.
 
 
 
For non-native speakers, the difficulties may be particularly acute, but even for natives, mastering a range of new registers can pose serious difficulties. Yet this problem often passes unnoticed, perhaps because people are almost as oblivious to language as to the air they breathe or because tools have not been available to research the situation objectively.
 
 
 
Even with the advent of corpus linguistics, most studies of academic language have focused on published texts, particularly research articles, and little is known about other ways language is used within the university setting, which might include textbooks, lectures, study groups, institutional publications and encounters with administrative and service staff.
 
 
 
University Language by Douglas Biber is an attempt to address the issue of language in the university across the board. The book has its background in the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language (T2K-SWAL) Project sponsored by ETS and should therefore be of interest to teachers preparing students for TOEFL iBT, as well as to teachers on pre-sessional language courses and linguists interested in corpus research. The aim of the project, which defines the scope of this book as well, was to describe language use across a very wide range of university registers: spoken and written, formal and informal, embracing the major disciplines (humanities, natural and social sciences), the main academic levels (undergraduate and postgraduate), and the typical situations in which students might find themselves (lectures, seminars, tutorials, interaction with administrative staff).
 
 
 
Because of the deliberate focus on what students encounter, the design of the book intentionally excludes language that students produce independently: areas such as student presentations and term papers fall outside its scope. In Biber's own words, "the central goal of the book is simple: to provide a relatively comprehensive linguistic description of the range of university registers, surveying the distinctive linguistic characteristics of each register" (p. 22).

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Patterns in Contrast (Studies in Corpus Linguistics Book 58)

Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically.


As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first part offers an in-depth discussion of contrastive linguistics, with special emphasis on using translations as tertium comparationis and a parallel corpus as the main source of material.


Central to the contrastive analysis is the use of corpus-linguistic methods in the identification of patterns, while a deeper understanding of the phraseological nature of the patterns is closely related to the concept of extended units of meaning. The second part of the book presents five case studies, using an easy-to-follow step-by-step method to illustrate the phraseological-contrastive approach at work. The studies show that patterns weave an intricate web of meanings across languages and demonstrate the potential of exploring patterns in contrast.


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Korean English A Corpus-Driven Study of a New English (Studies in Corpus Linguistics Book 62)

The English language is changing every day and it is us – the individual speakers and writers – that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others.


This book discusses and describes some of the choices made by speakers from South Korea by examining the similarities and differences between two Korean communities: one in England and one in South Korea. The book has two overall aims.


Firstly, it is intended to begin a discussion about phraseology and Lexical Priming and how these theoretical concepts relate and play out in the context of a New English. Secondly, it provides a model of how a language variety can be explored by detailed analysis of short strings. It delves into a range of areas from World Englishes to phraseology and formulaic language and would be suitable for students, teachers and researchers in all these areas.


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Keyness in Texts (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 41)

At the same time software resources are yielding increasingly more detailed ways of identifying and studying the linkages between key words and phrases in text databases. This volume brings together work from some of the leading researchers in this field.


It presents thirteen studies organized in three sections, the first containing a series of studies exploring the nature of keyness itself, then a set of five studies looking at keyness in specific discourse contexts, and then three studies with an educational focus.

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Grammatical Change in English World-Wide (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 67)

The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. 
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Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech (Studies in Corpus Linguistics Book 53)

This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency.


The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It also reveals areas in which even highly advanced learners of English still deviate strongly from the native target norm and in which they have already approximated to it.


Based on these findings, selected learners are subjected to native speakers' ratings of seven perceptive fluency variables in order to test which variables are most responsible for a perception of oral proficiency on the sides of the listeners. Finally, language-pedagogical implications derived from these findings for the improvement of fluency in learner language are presented. This book is conceptually and methodologically relevant for corpus-linguistics, learner corpus research and foreign language teaching and learning.

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Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning by Laura Gavioli (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 21)

The main aim of this book is to discuss the relevance of corpus work for learners of English as a foreign language and this volume is directed to all those who believe that taking the point of view of the learners into consideration may be important for their job: materials’ designers, teachers and applied linguists in general.


I argue that analysing corpora, restricted in the range of the texttypes and topics collected, can be a useful learning activity, particularly for learners of ESP. Corpora are collections of texts in electronic form which can be analyzed to highlight features that are recurrent in the corpus itself. Small, specialized corpora of the type discussed in this book may provide a source to get an access to uses of specialized language.


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Corpus and Sociolinguistics Investigating Age and Gender in Female Talk (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 38)

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny.


This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English.


The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of high frequency pragmatic features of spoken discourse that appear as key items in the corpus.

Part 1 of the book provides an introduction, a theoretical overview of age as a sociolinguistic variable and a description on how to compile a small spoken corpus for sociolinguistic research.

Part 2 consists of five chapters which investigate and explore key features such as hedges, vague category markers, intensifiers, boosters and high-frequent items of taboo language in relation to the variables, age and gender. The book is of interest to undergraduates or postgraduates taking formal courses in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics or discourse analysis. It is also of interest to students and researchers interested in using corpus linguistics in sociolinguistic research.

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Stardust Photocopy Masters Book 4 and 5

Stardust 4 and 5 - A dynamic approach appeals to the needs and interests of ten to twelve year olds, and creates a solid base for their Secondary studies.
 
 
 
Stardust Photocopy Masters Book 4 and 5
- Extra help
- Reading and writing
- Songs
- Dictonary skills
- Festivals

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Stardust Photocopy Master Book 2 and 3

Stardust Photocopy Masters Book 2 and 3
 
- Extra help
- Reading and writing
- Songs
- Dictonary skills
- Festivals

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Stardust 5 Class Book

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.

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Stardust 5 Activity Book

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.

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Stardust 4 Class Book

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.

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Stardust 3 Audio CDs

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.

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Stardust 2 Class Book

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.

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Stardust 2 Audio CDs

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.

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Stardust 2 Activity Book

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.


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Stardust 1 Audio CDs

Stardust is a five level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
 
 
 
 
The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.
 

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The Path to Language Bilingual Education for Deaf Children by Danielle Bouvet (Multilingual Matters)

The author uses strong theoretical and practical arguments to show that deaf children can and should acquire languge just as hearing children do, provided they experience the same conditions all children need in order to learn to speak.
 
 
 
For deaf children, sign language is the only language that can satisfy all those conditions.
 
 
 
Discussion of speech instruction in bilingual education for deaf children refutes the assumption that speech is acquired automatically by hearing children and examines a program in which deaf children are taught alongside hearing children.
 
 
 
The first part looks at how speech functions and how children acquire it: including the nature of the linguistic sign and its occurrence in the speech process; the speaking subject's role in the speech process; the newborn's ability to communicate, pre-verbal and verbal communication; and the mother's role in child language acquisition.
 
 
 
In part two, the idea that deaf and hearing children have more similarities than differences is explained, and deaf children's right to a mother tongue is argued. Prejudices against deafness and the relationship of a child's deafness to parent(s)' deafness is discussed. Part three describes a pilot bilingual education program involving five profoundly deaf children and one severely deaf child, aged 4-6, that prepared them with both sign language and verbal communication skills for integration into a school for hearing children. The children's progress is followed through 6 years and the acquisition of written language in the bilingual education program is noted. Appended materials include data on the children, two manual alphabets, and a bibliography.

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The Lexical Approach The State of ELT and a Way Forward by Michael Lewis

The Lexical Approach develops many of the fundamental principles avanced by proponents of Communicative Approaches .
 
 
 
The most important difference is the increased understanding of nature of lexis in natutrally occurring langugae, and its potential contribution to langaue pedagogy.
 

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The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring A Multiple Perspectives Approach

Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi–disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.
 
 
 
Provides a complete, multi–disciplinary look at the practice and theory of mentoring and demonstrates its advantages
 
 
 
Brings together, for the first time, expert researchers from the three primary areas of mentoring: workplace, academy, and community
 
 
Leading scholars provide critical analysis on important literature concerning theoretical approaches and methodological issues in the field
 
 
Final section presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the field

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Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook 1 Cognitive Domain

This book was written almost 50 years ago and it is still widely used within education around the world. Bloom set out to create a common framework for categorising academic ability and his resulting taxonomy is still the de facto standard for classifying cognitive skills.


Don't be put off by the age of the book - it's very readable - which perhaps reflects the timeless nature of his subject matter. Although some of his examples have aged (and perhaps were never particularly good examples), the book is accessible and interesting - and, as I've said, as useful today as it was 50 years ago. Highly recommended to anyone involved in writing test items.


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Speak English Fluently by Dr Mahendra Saraswat

This is a book to make you fluent in Spoken English.
 
 
 
"Everywhere,whether it’s an institution or an industry, people who speak English better are treated above par than those who are not able to speak it fluently. And fluency of speech gives a magnetic character to its speaker and it influences positively the person to whom you speak. 
 
 
 
Though you read English better, write English better and even you are able to manage to speak English, yet sometimes, you feel that your English utterance doesn’t leave any impression on your counterpart. It means that your vast knowledge of English isn’t helping you to get the required results and it lacks something. And your adequate knowledge of reading and writing English is facing the difficulty to move, that can put you in dilemma when you have to see a daemonic dignitary, you have to face an implex interview, and you have to represent a vivid view, then you find that your treasure of English doesn’t wish to assist you.
 
 
 
Believe that you are born to achieve high degree of speech fluency. The only requirement is that you go through each page of this book carefully, attentively,religiously and patiently, and follow every command honestly. And you’ll find that your ENGLISH SPEECH is getting golden wings of FLUENCY with ease. "—Dr. Mahendra Saraswat
 
Content
01.Acquire the Power of Pronunciation Skill 2–11
02. Let Yourself Grasp the Pompous Shortened Forms 12–19
03. Bank Upon the Proficient Vocabulary 20–45
04. Train Your Tongue 46–61
05. Befriend with Speech Fluency Techniques 62–76
06. Let Down Your Fluency Obstacles 77–91
07. Divide and Rule Your Speech 92–96
08. Realize the Beauty of Pauses 97–112
09. Speak in Rhythmic Fluency 113–123
10. Control Your Speech Delivery 124–136
11. Tag Your Speech with Short Responses 137–157
12. Secret of Successful Spontaneous Speech 158–182
13. Beautify Your Speech with Drops 183–191
14. The Final Touch 192–234


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