Lawyers' Language: The Distinctiveness of Legal Language
An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. It is widely accepted that legal discourse is obscure, and often the public resent the fact that access to the law of the land is obstructed by the opaqueness of legal language.
Using the Language Experience Approach With English Language Learners
'Nessel and Dixon show teachers how to effectively support English language development by using the Language Experience Approach.'uDavid E. Freeman and Yvonne S. Freeman, Professors of Literacy, ESL, and Bilingual EducationThe University of Texas at Brownsville'Provides the tools teachers need to use this natural way of helping English Language Learners. The Language Experience Approach makes language and language arts accessible to the students in need of basic skills.
Your mission is to stop Carmen Sandiego and her diabolical Babble-on Machine from destroying the English language! You must successfully complete twelve missions that require you to solve over sixty skill-building activities. Practice mode features thousands of exercises that develop spelling, grammar and vocabulary proficiency. This adventure motivates kids to learn essential language skills.
The Teacher´s Magazine celebrates its 100th issue, and decided to put the English language as its main focus. Let´s take a fantastic journey throught time from its beginnings as a Germanic tribal language of the Indo European family up to its current position as the language of international communication. This hundredth issue presents it "A hundred teaching tips" that you will love to have near at hand when preparing your classes.
In addition, a re-edition of songs from Singing Songs 1 and 2, this time accompanied with recorded and printed activities.
An important U.S. ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is a mysterious land to most Americans, who may know it only as the place where Islam originated and Islamic fundamentalism is a powerful force. In recent years, the relationship between the governments of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has come under increasing scrutiny, and among the general public in the U.S. there is a need and desire for a greater understanding of Saudi Arabia.
