« New English File. Intermediate Video» features Allie, who's English, and Mark, who's from the United States. It presents functional and everyday social language in clear contexts.
This updated and expanded edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Music Theory breaks down a difficult subject in a simple way—even for those who think they have no rhythm or consider themselves tone deaf. With clear, concise language, it explains everything from bass-clef basics to confusing codas.
What are the essential features that permit a sentence to convey a complex idea? What must language users do in order to produce and understand meaningful sentences? And what enables humans, and perhaps apes and robots, to learn this remarkable skill? Janice Moulton and George Robinson offer a fresh and readable approach to these questions. They present an important new theory that clarifies the relationship of language to thought. This theory, which will attract considerable critical attention, combines a general analysis of language with an original cognitive model of syntax and language acquisition; it is a refreshing alternative to recent theories that..
How Languages Are Learned (Lightbrown and Spada)From the back cover: "This book provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to first and second language acquisition. By understanding how languages are learned, teachers will be better able to judge the merits of different teaching methodologies and textbooks, and to make the most of the time they spend with learners. The book presents the main theories of language acquisition, and considers the implications of these for language teaching. It discusses the effects of factors such as intelligence, personality, and age on language learning.
Intercultural resource pack - Latin American perspectives
"English as a Global Language" a perspective that has introduced changes in the English Language Teaching (ELT) context worldwide. Global communication requires more than sharing a common code. Global trade and traveling made it necessary to develop intercultural competence, a skill associated with an understanding of cultural diversity without losing our own cultural identity.
