The Cambridge History of the English Short Story

Edited by: Dominic Head The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, this is the first history of...
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Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: A Rationale for Pedagogy

Edited by: James Coady, Thomas Huckin Among ordinary language learners, the acquisition of vocabulary has long been felt to be a crucial component of learning a foreign language. Second Language Vocabularly Acquisition has the goal of comparing the effectiveness of the direct learning of vocabulary (through memorization) and...
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Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

By: Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider...
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Guide To Cross-Cultural Communication, Second Edition

By: Sana Reynolds, Deborah Valentine A brief, professional, reader-friendly guide for improving professional cross-cultural communication skills. Help readers communicate across cultures with Guide to Cross-Cultural Communication, a handy reference containing information on negotiations, business writing, and speaking with those from diverse cultural backgrounds. This text also includes business-related...
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How to Teach Fiction Writing at Key Stage 2

by Pie Corbett How to Teach Fiction Writing is a practical manual to help teachers of junior classes to focus on the key aspects of developing children’s storywriting. The book presents a series of essential writing workshops full of creative ideas and fun activities. It also offers a...
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Transformational Grammar: A First Course

by Andrew Radford Andrew Radford’s new textbook is principally for students with little or no background in syntax who need a lively and up-to-date introduction to contemporary work on transformational grammar. It covers four main topics – the goals of linguistic theory, syntactic structure, the nature and role...
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