Teachers of English require knowledge and skills in many areas, including literature, writing and language.  In this book, we approach that last of these areas not simply as means for teaching the first two, but rather, as a topic worthy of serious study in itself.  We have attempted to provide future teachers with the fundamentals that they will need to explore, along with their students, the nature of language and the nature of the English language, particularly its grammar and its meaning systems.

Language Learning Strategies

This text provides ESL/EFL and foreign language teachers with practical recommendations for developing their students' second language strategies.

The Language of Time: A Reader

This reader collects and introduces important work on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted.

Language Handbook - Additional Practice in Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (Grade 10) SB and Answer Key

This booklet, Language Handbook, contains worksheets that reinforce essential grammar, usage, and mechanics rules and instruction.Tests at the end of each section can be used either for assessment or as end-of-section reviews. A separate Answer Key for the Language Handbook provides answers or suggested responses to all items in this booklet.

Stephen Fry's English Delight

Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4. Current Puns: Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is the Thief of Bad Gags? Metaphor: the English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors - cock up, taken aback, chip on your shoulder and show a leg. And, with the help of a Greek removals firm, we also find the origin of the word 'metaphor'. Quotation: the uses and misuses of quotations are revealed, and there is also a frank confession from a quotation compiler, which we cannot divulge here....

 

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