A bimonthly magazine for the learners of business language at upper intermediate and advanced levels. All texts followed by wordlists. Features finance, small business, management, technology, language, lifestyles, profiles, international trade, European economy, and local issues.
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry.
Written for prospective and practicing visual arts, music, drama, and dance educators, Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners offers guidance for engaging ELLs, alongside all learners, through artistic thinking. By paying equal attention to visual art, music, drama, and dance education, this book articulates how arts classrooms can create rich and supportive contexts for ELLs to grow socially, academically, and personally. The making and relating, perceiving and responding, and connecting and understanding processes of artistic thinking, create the terrain for rich curricular experiences.
The general stereotype regarding interaction between American Sign Language and English is a model of oversimplification: ASL signers are direct and English speakers are indirect. Jack Hoza’s study It’s Not What You Sign, It’s How You Sign It: Politeness in American Sign Language upends this common impression through an in-depth comparison of the communication styles between these two language communities.
English Teaching Professional is a quarterly magazine which is packed with classroom activities and teaching tips for every English language teacher. In every issue you can find articles which focus on reviews of recent EFL theory, as well as lots of practical hints e.g. how to teach different language aspects, how to deal with some undesirable behaviour which appears in L2 classrooms, advice on how to improve your teaching, how to use computers more effectively and lots more.
