This book teaches hearing parents how to use simple sign language gestures to communicate with their hearing infants before their infants can speak. Joseph Garcia uses anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor to explain the benefits and method for taking advantage of this unique form of early communication. He will help you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He recommends which signs to teach first and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs. The book is also a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child.
Playing Cards: Predicting Your Future (Astrolog Complete Guide)
This book explains how to read future with the standard playing cardsdeck in a concise way, with no extraneus material. After a short introduction, the card's meanings are explained a card a page, with an extra page for each suit. The explanations are short and to the point, clear, and very understandable. For some reason, each explanation is accompanied with the card's picture which is scanned in very low resolution and printed in black & white. The last section includes several good spreads, explained well over 34 pages, with a few pages with hints for correct interpretation. The subject of reversed cards is covered as well.
User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning In the field of computer aided language learning (CALL), there is a
need for emphasizing the importance of the user. User-Centered Computer
Aided Language Learning presents methodologies, strategies, and design
approaches for building interfaces for a user-centered CALL
environment, creating a deeper understanding of the opportunities and
challenges of the field. User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning
acts as a guide to help educators, administrators, professionals and
researchers find the basis of a framework for the development and
management of CALL environments that are enriched with many domains and
take into account interaction and activity, which go beyond the basic
linguistic elements of the field.
The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology
Considering the communicative and symbolic roles of language in
articulating national identity, Yasir Suleiman provides a fresh
perspective on nationalism in the Middle East. The links between
language and nationalism are delineated and he demonstrates how this
has been articulated over the past two centuries.
Straddling the domains
of cultural and political nationalism, Suleiman examines the Arab past
(looking at the interpretation and reinvention of tradition, and
myth-making); the clash between Arab and Turkish
cultural nationalism in the 19th and early 20th century; readings of
canonical treatises on the topic of Arab cultural nationalism, the
major ideological trends linking language to territorial nationalism;
and provides a research agenda for the study of language and
nationalism in the Arab context.
This the first full-scale study of this important topic and will be
of interest to students of nationalism, Arab and comparative politics,
Arabic Studies, history, cultural studies and sociolinguistics.
