Teaching Oral Language: Building a Firm Foundation Using ICPALER in the Early Primary Years
Oral language skills are an essential foundation for successful school learning. However, until recently, the acquisition of oral language skills has been largely overshadowed by reading, writing, spelling, and numeracy. In Teaching Oral Language, Dr. John Munro redresses this imbalance through the delivery of his step-by-step model: ICPALER (Ideas-Conventions-Purposes-Ability to Learn-Expression and Reception).
Cutting Edge Third Edition builds on the distinctive task-based approach that has made this course so popular. Engaging texts, new video content and a comprehensive digital package are just some of the features that make this fully revised edition even more effective.
The Workbook contains a wide variety of practice exercises that review all the language areas studied in the Students' Book:
Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises help to consolidate new language.
Functional and writing exercises build on the Language Live lessons.
The Random House Webster’s Compact American Sign Language Dictionary is a treasury of over 4,500 signs for the novice and experienced user alike. It includes complete descriptions of each sign, plus full-torso illustrations. There is also a subject index for easy reference as well as alternate signs for the same meaning.
The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human experiences (Grady 1997a; Lakoff & Johnson 1980). This motivation explains the crosslinguistic appearance of certain metaphors, but does not say anything about temporal metaphor systems that deviate from the types documented here.
The GMAT Ultimate Grammar Book covers all the GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) topics that you need to master before taking the verbal section on the GMAT. Whether English is your native language and you want to brush up or as a non-native speaker you are just learning the rules of English grammar, this comprehensive book can walk you through the basics and systemmatically work your way to an advanced level of the English language sentence structure.
