Название: The Pursuit of Permanence: A Study of the English Child Care System
Автор: Ian Sinclair, Claire Baker, Jenny Lee, Ian Gibbs
Издательство: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 322
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The "Pursuit of Permanence" explores this core issue for children's services

Название: The Briefest English Grammar Ever!
Автор: Ruth Colman
Издательство: University of New South Wales Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 35
Размер: 222 kB
Язык: English

Readers have eaten, shot, and left Lynne Truss's best selling book on punctuation, suddenly realizing how little they really know about grammar from their school days. Enter Ruth Colman and The Briefest English Grammar Ever! Originally handwritten and stapled together, Ruth says this concise no-nonsense guide is "designed for those who didn't learn grammar at school, particularly those now learning another language". It is also an essential reference in teaching English as a second other language (TESOL)

Название: Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies
Автор: Michelle Maxom
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 401
Размер: 9 MB
Язык: English

Put an EFL course programme together from scratch Making Everything Easier! Teaching English as a Foreign Language for Dummies

Название: Linguistic Awareness in Multilinguals: English as a Third Language
Автор: Ulrike Jessner
Издательство: Edinburgh University Press
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 185
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

This book discusses the nature of third language acquisition and trilingualism, exploring the key role that linguistic awareness plays in multilingual proficiency and language learning..

Название: Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Автор: Seth Lerer
Издательство: Columbia University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 316
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer's Inventing English is a masterful, engaging history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of our grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments in the larger history of English, America, and literature.Lerer begins in the seventh century with the poet Caedmon learning to sing what would become the earliest poem in English

Название: English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate With answers
Автор: Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1994
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 303
Размер: 15 MB
Язык: English

English Vocabulary in Use is a vocabulary book for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English, primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, but can also be used for classroom work. Firmly based on current learning theory, its emphasis is on the practical needs of the learner. It aims not only to present and explain words but to demonstrate how to use them and how to work out rules for using them

Название: English Syntax and Argumentation, Second Edition
Автор: Bas Aarts
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 327
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

The new edition of this textbook gives students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. This edition is completely revised, with the chapter on X-bar syntax now split in two to give greater prominence to clauses. It also contains many new exercises, which are now graded in terms of level of difficulty

Название: Dictionary of Building and Civil Engineering: English/French French/English
Автор: Don Montague
Издательство: Spon Press
Год: 1996
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 469
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

This dual-language dictionary lists over 20,000 specialist terms in both French and English, covering architecture, building, engineering and property terms. It meets the needs of all building professionals working on projects overseas. It has been comprehensively researched and compiled to provide an invaluable reference source in an increasingly European marketplace

Название: When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English
Автор: Ann Batko, Edward Rosenheim
Издательство: Career Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 256
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct? Ever stumble when choosing between "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," "lay" and "lie"? If so, then When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People should be at the top of your reading list. This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English. After a short and simple review of some basic principles, this book is organized in the most useful way possible-by error type, such as "Problem Pronouns" or "Mixing up Words that Sound the Same

Название: Surface Syntax of English: A Formal Model Within the Meaning-Text Framework: A Formal Meaning Within the Meaning-text Framework
Автор: Igor A. Mel'Cuk, Nikolaj Pertsov, Richard Kittredge
Издательство: John Benjamins
Год: 1987
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 546
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

This volume is the first attempt to describe the syntax of contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: 1) a fully formal presentation, 2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax and 3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers). Written within a new theoretical framework known as the meaning-text approach, the book views English syntax from a different angle