Thứ Bảy, 20 tháng 5, 2017

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.
 

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.

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.
 

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

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.


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


Thứ Sáu, 19 tháng 5, 2017

Rhetoric in Detail Discourse Analyses of Rhetorical Talk and Text

This book brings together twelve studies, all written by scholars who identify themselves primarily as rhetoricians, that employ theory and/or method fromlinguistic discourse analysis.
 
 
The studies make use of a variety of discourse analytic resources, including those of critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, and computer-aided corpus analysis.