Product Description: This book serves as a comprehensive reference resource for current and prospective English language teachers, students of TESOL, academics, and other professionals working within the field of Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL)...read more

Product Description: Catalysis is at the heart of modern, environmentally friendly technologies, and is central to efficient energy production, conversion and utilization. Design and synthesis of catalysts to control catalytic activity and selectivity has been a scientific challenge for those working to secure our energy future...read more

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Product Description: Access Chinese gives a new perspective to teaching and learning Chinese by harmonizing 3 key elements of learning a second language creatively: 1.Intertwining language with culture 2.Balancing focus on forms and meaning 3. Developing literacy skills through both oral and written Chinese...read more

Product Description: Access Chinese gives a new perspective to teaching and learning Chinese by harmonizing 3 key elements of learning a second language creatively:Intertwining language with culture Balancing focus on forms and meaning Developing literacy skills through both oral and written Chinese...read more

Product Description: Access Chinese gives a new perspective to teaching and learning Chinese by harmonizing 3 key elements of learning a second language creatively: 1.Intertwining language with culture 2.Balancing focus on forms and meaning 3. Developing literacy skills through both oral and written Chinese...read more

Product Description: Written from an operator’s viewpoint,  HSPA Performance and Evolution  explores the lessons learned and techniques developed for optimally deploying HSPA (High Speed Packet Access). The essential distinctions between rolling out HSPA compared to earlier UMTS and GSM technologies are explained covering the many issues that must be specifically handled...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on systematic and intelligent information processing theories and methods based on linguistic values. The main contents include topics such as the 2-tuple model of linguistic values, 2-tuple linguistic aggregation operator hedge algebras, complete hedge algebras and linguistic value reasoning, reasoning with linguistic quantifiers, linguistic reasoning based on a random set, the fuzzy number model of linguistic values, linguistic value aggregation based on the fuzzy number model, extraction of linguistic proposition from a database and handling of linguistic information on the Internet, linguistic truth value lattice implication algebras, linguistic truth value resolution automatic reasoning, linguistic truth value reasoning based on lattice implication algebra, and related applications in decision-making and forecast...read more

Product Description: Communication Strategies covers the vocabulary, patterns, and collocations that English language learners need to communicate actively.

Product Description: Communication Strategies covers the vocabulary, patterns, and collocations that English language learners need to communicate actively.

Product Description: Communication Strategies covers the vocabulary, patterns, and collocations that English language learners need to communicate actively.

Product Description: This book examines the importance of English language teaching in China, but also the need for this teaching to be modernised in order for China to better join the world economy. The current trend within English teaching in China is for 'communicative competence' - that is, being able to communicate with linguistic, pragmatic, discourse and strategic competence...read more

Product Description: Lattice-valued Logic aims at establishing the logical foundation for uncertain information processing routinely performed by humans and artificial intelligence systems. In this textbook for the first time a general introduction on lattice-valued logic is given...read more

Product Description: Peer response in which students work together to provide feedback on one another's writing in both written and oral formats through active engagement with each other's progress over multiple drafts, has been discussed in L2 writing literature since the early 1980s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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