Учебное пособие предназначено для тех, кто может читать небольшие тексты в оригинале. Оно может быть использовано как пособие для домашнего чтения и аудиторной работы в школах, кружках, на курсах, а также для самостоятельного изучения английского языка. Пособие состоит из 24 рассказов и системы заданий, включающих материал для обсуждения прочитанного. Предложенные задания привлекают внимание к элементам текста, важным для понимания и толкования произведения.
This fully-revised edition builds on the task-based learning approach that has made Cutting Edge so popular. With fresh, new, integrated DVD material and digital components, learners can be confident of improving their language skills through a carefully balanced range of activities.
New features include World Culture lessons that encourage discussion of contemporary global issues and Language Live lessons that enable students to practise functional language and writing skills.
Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics. These newly written contributions present discussion from some of the most important philosophers in the field today and include replies from Millikan herself.
Let the meta-discussion begin, James Holmes urged in 1972. Coming almost forty years later years filled with fascinating and often unexpected developments in the interdiscipline of Translation Studies this volume offers the reader a multiplicity of meta-perspectives, while also moving the discussion forward. Indeed, the (re)production and (re)use of metalinguistic metaphors frame and partly determine our views on research, so such a discussion is vital -as it is in any scholarly discipline. Among other questions, the eleven contributors draw the reader s attention to the often puzzling variations of usage and conceptualization in both the theory and the practice of translation.
The widespread use of English as an International Language (EIL) in different parts of the world for administrative, business, educational and social purposes has given rise to questions such as what counts as ?Standard English? and ?literacy?. This edited volume is designed to provide a scholarly and research-based discussion on how English in education can be (re)conceptualized and understood in light of the dynamic and changing nature of English.
