National Geographic takes you on a photographic tour of the world’s most spectacular destinations, inspiring tangible ideas for your next trip. Hundreds of the most breathtaking locales—both natural and man-made—are illustrated with vivid images taken by the organization’s world-class photographers. These images, coupled with evocative text, feature a...
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By: Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, Kleanthes K. Grohmann Understanding Minimalism, first published in 2005, is an introduction to the Minimalist Program – the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it presents the basic principles and techniques of the minimalist program, looking firstly at analyses within...
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Edited by: María Luisa Carrió-Pastor, Begoña Bellés-Fortuño This edited book explores critical issues relating to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), setting out their similarities and differences to demystify the terms and their implications for classroom practice. The authors show...
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By: Cedric Boeckx Boeckx examines the foundations and explains the underlying philosophy of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the most radical version to date of Noam Chomsky’s naturalistic approach to language. He exemplifies its methods, considers the significance of its results, and explores its roots and antecedents....
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By: Shin Yi Chew • Lee Luan Ng This book takes as its starting point the assumption that interpersonal communication is a crucial aspect of successful language learning. Following an examination of different communicative models, the authors focus on traditional face-to-face (F2F) interactions, before going on to compare...
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By: Jean-Philippe Dionne This book provides concise and effective tips spanning all relevant areas to deliver engaging scientific presentations. Readers will strengthen their skills in preparing, practicing and delivering presentations at both physical and virtual conferences and seminars. Best practices for structuring presentations and elements to include and...
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Edited by: Carmela Aprea • Dirk Ifenthaler The volume focuses on epistemological, theoretical and empirical issues of game-based learning in various disciplines. It encompasses questions of game design as well as instructional integration and organizational implementation of game-based learning across various disciplines and includes contributions from different levels...
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Edited by: Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos • Stavros Demetriadis • Anastasios Mikropoulos • Vasileios Dagdilelis An essential text for researchers and academics seeking the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of e-learning and ICT in education, this book is a multidisciplinary forum covering technical, pedagogical, organizational, instructional and...
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By: Karim Sadeghi This book investigates the issue of cloze-validity as a measure of second language reading comprehension. It starts off by making a distinction between general reading ability and the more specific reading comprehension followed by a thorough review of the related research on L2 reading comprehension and...
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