This book invites teachers and students to taste and hear and move to the music of words, words in isolation and in interesting juxtapositions, and urges them to bring their own life experience to language, showing in turn how language can help them know that experience more fully.
In "The Skilled Negotiator" Kathleen Reardon engagingly describes how to expand on negotiation strategies and develop language skills to enhance success in negotiation. The book is filled with real-life examples revealing how to detect subtleties in manner and speech that negotiation novices fail to notice. You’ll learn how to identify the “choice points” that occur during negotiations, how to influence and redirect the conversation to address what you need and ultimately get what you want. The author helps you: - Identify your negotiation style and its limitations - Use language strategically whether you’re being subtle or direct - Recognize deception and manage it
The new and updated edition of this bestselling introductory textbook is a comprehensive overview of the field of second language acquisition. In an easy-to-read accessible style, it provides students with information about the scope of the field, but also provides background information on related areas such as first language acquisition. The book introduces students to current issues of data collection and data analysis, as well as provides an historical overview of the field, thus giving students context and perspective about how todayƒ?Ts issues arise from earlier approaches.
Each chapter offers discussion questions and/or problems so that students can put their knowledge to use in a way that is relevant to what they have learned, but that also challenges them to go beyond what is in the chapter and to relate information across chapters.
The book covers a range of areas of second language research including sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic perspectives. It also includes a chapter on the lexicon and on instructed second language learning. The concluding chapter pulls the information in the previous chapters together into a coherent framework that challenges students to think about the field of second language acquisition as a whole.
This text is designed for anyone working or planning to work in the field of finance who wants to be able to discuss financial matters, read the financial press, or consult financial documents with greater ease and confidence. It is suitable for a wide range of students, from post-intermediate to advanced level. The book is divided into five areas (accounting, money and banking, selling, company finance and world economics) with a total of 86 units across these areas. It consists of mostly one-page lessons and includes a 32-page mini-dictionary of financial terms.
A well thought out book that is an invaluable teaching guide for learning and using English financial language. Clear headings aid the teacher and student alike to find relevant exercises.With varying degrees of difficulty from pre-inermediate to practically native speaker level, superb context make this book a must for every language teacher/trainer.
This book invites teachers and students to taste and hear and move to the music of words, words in isolation and in interesting juxtapositions, and urges them to bring their own life experience to language, showing in turn how language can help them know that experience more fully.
