Product Description: Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis provides a basic foundation for understanding aspects of English language crucial in the analysis of text. The major topics covered include writing, the sound system of spoken English, words, sentence grammar and discourse construction.
Fundamentals of English Grammar combines communicative methods with the direct teaching of grammar. While retaining its characteristic clarity and simplicity in grammar instruction, this edition is enriched by a wide variety of language-learning activities for the classroom.
This book offers a new approach to the history of English. Contemporary linguistic research in various areas - ranging from discourse analysis and stylistics to literacy and the study of pidgins and creoles - raises new historical questions. Access to large corpora of English has in recent years enabled scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change in much greater detail than before, and consequently the timing and interpretation of events is having to be reconsidered. Furthermore, the focus of interest in a history of the language is rather different in the 1990s than it was a decade and more ago, and this book reflects this shift.
Entry 3 Skills for Life ESOL Student Workbook is the THIRD level in a series of five for new arrivals in the UK wishing to study English. (Note: do not be confused by the illogical naming of the level by the DfES!) It is an adult course that takes students from beginner/starter level to a point equivalent to a GCSE in English. The course is designed to help new arrivals in the UK learn communicative English as quickly as possible. I focusses on real life scenarios for those living in the UK. It thus contains a lot of material and subjects not normally covered in general English coursebooks. It is written and produced by the UK Department of Education and Skills (DfES). audio and teacher's notes added
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional differences between strong 1sg and non-1sg case forms and reveal systematic case variation within the speech of individuals as well as across speakers.
