Every Monday Sean Moncrieff (NewsTalkRadioDublin) along with special guests, professor of linguistics Terry Dolan, trace the origins and meanings of every day words in the English language. The words are discussed according to the chosen topics.
Learn and practice useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC 6 Minute English. It’s your instruction manual for saying or doing something in English. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.
Balloons is an imaginative three-level language course for three-, four-, and five-year-olds that introduces children to English through play. Balloons uses the same pedagogy pioneered and proven in New Parade - from the Warm-Up, Presentation, Practice, and Application through Assessment and Enrichment. Children learn English playfully through songs, chants, games, TPR, and art projects.
Linguists and lawyers from a range of countries and legal systems explore the language of the law and its participants, beginning with the role of the forensic linguist in legal proceedings, either as expert witness or in legal language reform. Subsequent chapters analyze different aspects of language and interaction in the chain of events from a police emergency call through the police interview context and into the courtroom, as well as appeal court and alternative routes to justice.
The Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning investigates how those involved in education teachers, students, and administrators can respond to the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 technology, within existing institutional and pedagogical frameworks. Containing chapters by experts from across the globe, this defining body of research is the first of its kind to focus on second language learning in relation to the history of computer assisted language learning.
