Language and Region:
· provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
· covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry
· outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar
· is accompanied by a supporting website

Visuals for the Language Classroom is a practical guide to the visual materials commonly available to the classroom teacher. It describes the characteristics of the various media and shows how a sensitive understanding of these characteristics will lead the teacher to fresh, dynamic and efficient activities in the language classroom. All the ideas in this book can be copied by any teacher with the minimum of time, money or artistic talent. Many of the hundreds of examples have been illustrated by the authors themselves.

Sampling in educat ional research is generally conducted in order to permit the det ai led study of part, rather than the whole, of a popu lation. The information derived from the resulting sa mple is customarily employed to develop usefu l genera liz ations about the popu lation. These genera lizations may be in the form of estimates of one or more characteristics associated w ith the population, or they may be concerned with estimates of the strength of relation ships between characteristics wit hin the populat ion.