The power of this book is that it provides a theoretical framework about how children learn science and practical suggestions for how to apply this knowledge to the classroom. Harlen brings her exceptional insights about teaching and learning to weave a rich tapestry that illuminates the use of the process skills of inquiry to develop conceptual understanding and the critical role formative assessment plays to support this endeavor

Every Monday Sean Moncrieff (NewsTalkRadioDublin) along with special guests, professor of linguistics Terry Dolan, trace the origins and meanings of every day words in the English language. The words are discussed according to the chosen topics. The topics for discussion:
Economics, US elections, Money, Love, Cosmetic surgery, "Flying" words, Divorce

A guidebook for ELT teachers and academic managers which aims to promote development by dealing with professional topics in a personal way to raise self-awareness.
Learning Teaching has been one of the most successful guides to English since it was first published in 1994. Not only a superb textbook for initial training courses, it is also a no-nonsense handbook for practising ELT teachers, helping you to succeed from class to class, from week to week and from year to year.

Developing Skills for the iBT TOEFL continues the Compass graded test preparation course designed to hone the test-taking skills required of students who will take the TOEFL iBT administered by ETS. In this second book of the series, students will be able to familiarize themselves with innovative question types found on the TOEFL iBT test in addtion to practicing suggested tips and skills designed to increase their test scores in all four skill-based test sections: reading, listening, speaking, and writing.

Learn English Podcasts are a way for you to practise your English language listening skills. You can listen on your computer, or download to your mp3 player. We've got something for everyone - from kids to adults and from elementary to advanced level learners.

A new three-level series in which students learn and practise the words and phrases they need to know at Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. Each level of Oxford Word Skills enables students

Explores different techniques for teaching grammar including inductive and deductive approaches *Covers practising, testing, error correction and how to integrate grammar with various methodologies such as communicative language teaching and task-based learning *Sample lessons show a range of teaching approaches and grammar items in context

A new general English course for adults and young adults based on observation of what good teachers do in the classroom.
Straightforward is transparent in its structure, pragmatic in its methodology and varied in its content.
Key features:
A practical approach to methodology that prioritizes what works in the real,as opposed to the ideal, classroom
Double-page lessons offer a balanced mix of language input, skills work and oral tasks
A wide range of speaking tasks help students become flexible communicators in English

One of the most common problems facing ESL teachers is the advanced speaking class in which the most confident students dominate the discussion and the weaker students quickly withdraw. Discussion Starters is designed to balance the oral participation of all the students in the class and thus promote an environment in which everyone has not only a chance but a real need to speak out.
Each unit contains a relatively small number of exercises (usually around five) which provide speaking interaction about a central topic or idea. In most of these activities, students must work together in pairs or small groups to reach a conclusion about a topic. Other discussion books on the market today often use imaginary situations for discussion (e.g., "If you had a million dollars, what would you do?"). The activities and tasks in Discussion Starters are real situations from all over the world. When students are asked what they would do in a given situation or how a judge should rule in a case, all the material is real.

In this classic reference book the Fowler brothers illustrate by example all the commonly-made blunders of English usage and guide the reader to improved expression and style. If Dickens had owned a copy of The King's English for example, he would not have written ""your great ability and trustfulness;"" he would have recognized the malapropism and realized that the context demanded trustworthiness. Written with the good sense and liveliness that is characteristic of the Fowlers, this work has given generations of students, scholars, and professional writers the solutions to problems of grammar and style. In print since its publication in 1906, this book is still an essential guide to written English and an ideal companion to Fowler's Modern English Usage.

"Beyond Grammar should be read by all theoretical linguists who feel intrigued or threatened by the renaissance of statistical natural language processing. Bod argues for the provocative thesis that knowledge of language should be understood not as a grammar, but as a 'statistical ensemble of language experiences that changes slightly every time a new utterance is perceived or produced'. By building a conceptual theory that integrates formal language theory with statistical linguistics, he also shows why the coming statistical revolution need not put theoretical linguists out of business. This is a beautifully written, important, and accessible work." -- Joan Bresnan, Stanford University

This book extends the highly regarded Routledge Grammars series to include English. It will prove to be a tremendous boon to everyone who sometimes (or often) struggles with the language, from freshmen in composition 101 to graduate students looking to hone there skills.
English: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to modern English. Written specifically for nativespeakers, it includes. Discussion of points of usage that often cause problems
Guidance on sentence building. Practical spelling rules. Explanations of grammatical terms. An appendix of irregular verbs.
Beginning with the basics and progressing gradually and systematically to more complex issues, this is the guide for anyone seeking a solid mastery of English.

This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy-to-use plan for achieving excellence in expression, Style offers neither simplistic rules nor endless lists of dos and don'ts. Rather, Joseph Williams explains how to be concise, how to be focused, how to be organized. Filled with realistic examples of good, bad, and better writing, and step-by-step strategies for crafting a sentence or organizing a paragraph, Style does much more than teach mechanics: it helps anyone who must write clearly and persuasively transform even the roughest of drafts into a polished work of clarity, coherence, impact, and personality.

An Introduction to Early Modern English, helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core but also one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. The volume focuses on the structure of what contemporaries called the General Dialect--its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation--and on its dialectal origins. The book also discusses the language situation and linguistic anxieties in England at a time when Latin exerted a strong influence on the rising standard language.