Description This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversational analytic (CA) approach to understanding language use. The book places a special emphasis on what the methods and findings of CA can offer to discourse-functional linguistics.
Through a series of experiments Denys A. Stocks tests and evaluates over two hundred reconstructed and replica tools. Combining the knowledge of a modern engineer with the approach of an archaeologist and historian, he brings alive the methods and practices of ancient Egyptian craftworking, and highlights the innovations and advances made by this remarkable civilization.
Effortless English uses the best research in the world, from top experts such as: Dr. Stephen Krashen, Dr. James Asher, Dr. J. Marvin Brown, Dr. Ashley Hastings, Dr. Brenda Murphy, David Long and Blaine Ray. The research is clear-- students who use Effortless English are better speakers than students who use textbooks, grammar, and self-study only. In every country, in every possible situation, students who learn with Effortless English methods always win against students who use old methods.
Teaching and Learning English Literature presents a comprehensive overview of teaching English Literature from setting teaching goals and syllabus planning, through to a range of student assessment strategies and methods of course evaluation and improvement. A range of teaching methods are explored, from the traditional classroom, to newer collaborative work and uses of electronic technologies.
"The personal productivity guru" (Fast Company) delivers powerful methods that vastly increase your efficiency and creative results at work and in life. In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax.