The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur? Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse promises to quickly become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics.
What constitutes "bad" language? Is it slang? Curse words? In this academic volume, Battistella, a professor of English, examines language's relationship to social conditions and constraints and argues for relativism in looking at language. He maintains that hard-nosed, traditional ideas about what is "good" and what is "bad" are open to debate, and that labeling English as either "good" or "bad" is simplistic and unnecessary. Battistella suggests "how we might think more productively about language.
This book provides all the task material, essential reading and worksheets from A Course in Language Teaching, but without background information, bibliographies, notes or solutions. The tasks, which focus on both practical and theoretical aspects, are designed to encourage critical reflection on key topics of language teaching.It is suitable for those studying on a trainer-led course, where the trainer is available to provide input, guidance and feedback.
Synthesis Students Book by W.S. Fowler & John Pidcock
The course draws together the students' previous language learning. Each unit develops the interrelated skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. "Reading" - texts are authentic in many cases and are suitable for this level. "Writing" - always derives out of previous work and is related to a model students can refer to. "Listening" - tasks are graded for this level. Break points are indicated in the Teacher's book so that the teacher can stop the tape at regular intervals and ask questions.
The Grammar of a language is the system of that Language recorded form usage in actual speech. Rules laid down in the Grammar of a language are drawn from, made in accordance with, the accepted, correct usage. Therefore, if an accepted correct usage disagrees with the grammar rule, it is the rule that is to be ignored; and this fact leaves the problem to future grammarians. This booklet is not a complete course of English grammar, composition and usage; it is far from being one. The Book has 146 pages.
