Książka przeznaczona dla studentow, inżynierow (i nie tylko) studiow inżynierskich, budowlanych, środowiskowych, itp.
This book has been written for students of environmental engineering at intermediate and upper intermediate levels of English who seek to improve their language skills. Its primary goal is to present technical language in authentic texts selected from a variety of sources.
Developing Language & Literacy with Young Children, Third Edition, gives parents, teachers, and other professionals who work and play with young children a confident understanding of communication and language development for children from birth to age eight. This resource examines the range of elements that are typical of communication and language activities: thinking, feeling, imagining, talking, listening, drawing, writing, and reading.
Do you consider yourself a global citizen? Are you undaunted by accent marks and umlauts? Can you say “thank you” in three different languages? If you answered yes to any of these questions, your career choice has already been made. Now you need to choose an occupation. Careers for Foreign Language Aficionados & Other Multilingual Types provides all the information you need to launch a career.
This book is a collection of articles from my writings over the years on teaching English. Except for the introductory encyclopaedia article, the chapters are arranged in chronological order. They all share some basic features. The primary influence on my thinking about language learning and teaching is the empirically observed problems and difficulties students experience in learning a second language, and the articles all reflect this concern. Theoretical speculations are interesting but they serve a very minor part of this volume.
Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson’s landmark reference Des îles, des hommes, des langues, which has also been fully revised. Focusing on major French Creoles of the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, Chaudenson argues against traditional accounts of creole genesis and for a more sophisticated alternative that takes full account of the peculiar linguistic and social factors at play in the European settlement colonies.
