Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a second language
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The relationship of supervisor to student has traditionally been seen as one of apprenticeship, in which much learning is tacit, with the expectation that the student will become much like the tutor. The changing demographics of higher education in conjunction with imperatives of greater accountability and support for research students have rendered this scenario both less likely and less desirable and unfortunately many supervisors are challenged by the task of guiding non-native speaker students to completion.
Continuum Companion to Second Language Acquisition
This book ,firstly, portrays the landscape of L2 Acquisition and then departs to the main discussions in the field including l1 & L2,maturational constraints, vocabulary knowledge and use , input & output ,individual differences and motivational factors .finally a chapter on strategic behaviour and language learning . The concepts covered are adequately elaborated so that an overal understanding is induced.
Advertising Language analyses the ways advertisers use language to gain and retain the attention of their audience, with particular emphasis on puns and metaphors. The book contains a unique chapter on images of women in Japanese advertising and is the only book to contrast British and Japanese advertising, subsequently revealing penetrating insights into these two cultures.
Вниманию читателя предлагается уникальное пособие по составлению, переводу и реферированию международных документов на английском языке, относящихся к сфере внешнеполитической деятельности государств, функционирования системы ООН и других международных организаций, международного экономического сотрудничества и внешней торговли.
Against the background of the past half century’s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a multi-perspective critique of the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic variation, evaluating the merits and shortcomings of the pre-Minimalist phase of this enterprise and considering and illustrating the possibilities opened up by recent empirical and theoretical advances.
