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Teaching the Spoken Language is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author's important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. The authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of it is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language, and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Success at school and beyond depends to a large extent on being able to make yourself understood. This book looks at the way adolescents express themselves and concentrates on the discrepancies in language use between academically successful and unsuccessful pupils in an educational setting...read more

Product Description: Explores the relationship between the teachings of Luther and Catholicism. Contributors include Hall, McSorley, Rupp, Todd, Siggins, Torrance and Yule.

Product Description: This book provides ideas, techniques, and procedures that will enable the practicing language teacher to better identify the local needs of particular groups of second language learners, and work toward meeting those needs. It includes numerous illustrative examples and practical exercises that can be adapted and use in the classroom...read more

Product Description: Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is typically dependent on successful acts of reference, whereby entities (human and non-human) are identified (by naming or describing), are located or moved relative to other entities (by giving instructions or directions), or are followed through sequences of locations and events (by recounting an incident or a narrative)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A través de un estilo claro y conciso, George Yule ofrece al lector no especializado una introducción exhaustiva a los aspectos fundamentales del estudio de la lengua. Desde los orígenes del lenguaje hasta el análisis de las estratgias de adquisición/aprendizaje de una primera o segunda lengua; desde los procesos de formación de las palabras, la gramática y la sintaxis hasta los factores sociales, culturales y geográficos que influyen en el desarrollo de la lengua, este manual proporciona la oportunidad de descubrir el funcionamiento del lenguaje y el papel que desempeña dentro de las relaciones humanas...read more

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Product Description: Edward Sapir, particularmente conocido por sus investigaciones de la lengua de los navajos, ha logrado en este breviario singularizar los factores de mayor importancia en esta investigación lingüística, mereciendo señalarse como altamente significativos los comentarios sobre las relaciones del lenguaje con la raza y la cultura...read more

This new three-level series edition offers just the right balance of explanations and practice. The Advanced level offers in-depth explanations and challenging activities to help students refine their grammatical competence. The Grammar Practice-Plus CD-ROM expands on materials covered in the texts. Listen and Speak: Students hear sentences, select the correct response, and record their own voices. Read and Write: Students practice identifying errors and correcting them. Test and Review: Multiple choice tests help students check their progress.

Product Description: A través de un estilo claro y conciso, George Yule ofrece al lector no especializado una introducción exhaustiva a los aspectos fundamentales del estudio de la lengua. Desde los orígenes del lenguaje hasta el análisis de las estratgias de adquisición/aprendizaje de una primera o segunda lengua; desde los procesos de formación de las palabras, la gramática y la sintaxis hasta los factores sociales, culturales y geográficos que influyen en el desarrollo de la lengua, este manual proporciona la oportunidad de descubrir el funcionamiento del lenguaje y el papel que desempeña dentro de las relaciones humanas...read more

Product Description: This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in bite-sized sections, clearly explaining the major concepts in linguistics - from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language...read more