Speakout 2nd Edition is a six level English course for adult learners taking students from CEF A1 to C1. Using content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier, Speakout 2nd edition builds the skills and knowledge students need to communicate confidently in English as it is spoken.
Psychoanalytic work with children is popular, but the sophisticated language used in psychoanalytic discourse can be at odds with how children communicate, and how best to communicate with them. Dialogues with Children and Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Guide shows how these aims can be achieved for the most effective clinical outcome with children from infancy up to late adolescence.
Technical Communication: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition
Every student who plans to work in business and industry must master the art of technical communication. Indeed, your ability to communicate effectively in print, in presentations, and in electronic media will play a major role in your success in your chosen profession. Technical Communication: A Practical Approach is grounded in the principle that you will learn to communicate more ef£ectively by writing early and as much as possible in a course. It contains a wealth of guidelines, examples, and models to help you become a competent professional writer.
Can you imagine the world—or your life—without writing? From emails to street signs and newspapers to novels, the written word is so ever-present that we rarely stop to consider how it came to be. Yet at just over 5,000 years old, writing is actually a relatively recent invention. It has become so central to the way we communicate and live, however, that it often seems as if writing has always existed.
As an area of research that continues to develop, the study of linguistics worldwide presents the opportunity for the improvement of cross-cultural communication through education and research. Language educators are charged with the task of instructing students to effectively communicate across cultures in a multi-lingual world.
