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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - 2014
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick "turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.
A look at acronyms chronicles their history, shows readers how to coin their own acronyms, lists current acronyms and their meanings, and unveils clever examples of acronyms that do not exist but should.
This book addresses some methodological problems in the study of tense, aspect and action: How should linguists go about describing these categories and with what terminology? How does our work in this area relate to descriptions of language(s) in general? What research strategies should be explored? Bache discusses the interaction between language-specific grammars and universal grammar, including the problems of analytic directionality, semantic minimalism, and the general metalanguage of universal grammar. The book has several sources of inspiration: generative linguistics, structuralist phonology, glossematics, functional grammar, cognitive semantics and prototype theory.
The Learner's Dictionary has been designed for upper intermediate to advanced learners of English, especially those who wish to study the language for vocational purposes. Up-to-date coverage of today's language and extensive supplementary material on topics such as academic writing and exam preparation should help students to gain a greater and more practical knowledge of the English language.
