Our own experience in teaching and learning second languages has been that language learning entails imagination, involvement, and interaction. Focusing on individual skills, while certainly worthwhile and necessary, sometimes tends to sidetrack the learner - the learner is often not able to use the skills he or she has acquired in isolation. The purpose of this text is to present many necessary skills in integrated units, with the units always being directed toward atransition to language production. All lessons in Listening Transitions are based on functional dialogs, and a variety of practices are included to promote listening and interaction skills.
Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishThe only learner's dictionary to focus exclusively on academic English, the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English is specifically designed for learners studying, or preparing to study, academic subjects on English-medium university courses. Based on the 85-million-word Oxford Corpus of Academic English, it provides all the tools students need to develop their academic writing skills. Includes hundreds of academic usage notes, full-sentence examples based on real academic texts, reference pages, and a 48-page Oxford Academic Writing Tutor. The CD-ROM includes the Oxford Academic iWriter, an interactive writing tutor.
Advanced Learner's English Dictionary CDROM 2006 Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary offers detailed treatment of today's language. Based on the evidence from the Bank of English corpus, which now contains over 524 million words, the fifth edition contains the most important new words and meanings which have come into the language over the past two years, as well as thousands of new, updated examples, taken directly from the corpus.
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (4th Edition)
Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related disciplines. To reflect current developments, new sections on using learner corpora, semantics and morphosyntax (within formal approaches to SLA), sociocultural approaches, gesture, priming research, and chaos theory have been added. Students will also find expanded discussions of heritage language learning, bilingualism, pragmatics, and much more.
