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Uncovering the Logic of English: A Common-Sense Solution to America's Literacy Crisis

Author : Denise Eide
Publisher : Logic of English, Inc
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936706075

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"English is so illogical!" It is generally believed that English is a language of exceptions. For many, learning to spell and read is frustrating. For some, it is impossible... especially for the 29% of Americans who are functionally illiterate. But what if the problem is not the language itself, but the rules we were taught? What if we could see the complexity of English as a powerful tool rather than a hindrance? --Denise Eide Uncovering the Logic of English challenges the notion that English is illogical by systematically explaining English spelling and answering questions like "Why is there a silent final E in have, large, and house?" and "Why is discussion spelled with -sion rather than -tion?" With easy-to-read examples and anecdotes, this book describes: - the phonograms and spelling rules which explain 98% of English words - how English words are formed and how this knowledge can revolutionize vocabulary development - how understanding the reasons behind English spelling prevents students from needing to guess The author's inspiring commentary makes a compelling case that understanding the logic of English could transform literacy education and help solve America's literacy crisis. Thorough and filled with the latest linguistic and reading research, Uncovering the Logic of English demonstrates why this systematic approach should be as foundational to our education as 1+1=2.

Life 1, American English, Student Book

Author : John Hughes
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0357041933

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Dreyer's English

Author : Benjamin Dreyer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780812985719

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • Paste • Shelf Awareness “Essential (and delightful!)”—People We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help. As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. He is beloved by authors and editors alike—not to mention his followers on social media—for deconstructing the English language with playful erudition. Now he distills everything he has learned from the myriad books he has copyedited and overseen into a useful guide not just for writers but for everyone who wants to put their best prose foot forward. As authoritative as it is amusing, Dreyer’s English offers lessons on punctuation, from the underloved semicolon to the enigmatic en dash; the rules and nonrules of grammar, including why it’s OK to begin a sentence with “And” or “But” and to confidently split an infinitive; and why it’s best to avoid the doldrums of the Wan Intensifiers and Throat Clearers, including “very,” “rather,” “of course,” and the dreaded “actually.” Dreyer will let you know whether “alright” is all right (sometimes) and even help you brush up on your spelling—though, as he notes, “The problem with mnemonic devices is that I can never remember them.” And yes: “Only godless savages eschew the series comma.” Chockful of advice, insider wisdom, and fun facts, this book will prove to be invaluable to everyone who wants to shore up their writing skills, mandatory for people who spend their time editing and shaping other people’s prose, and—perhaps best of all—an utter treat for anyone who simply revels in language. Praise for Dreyer’s English “Playful, smart, self-conscious, and personal . . . One encounters wisdom and good sense on nearly every page of Dreyer’s English.”—The Wall Street Journal “Destined to become a classic.”—The Millions “Dreyer can help you . . . with tips on punctuation and spelling. . . . Even better: He’ll entertain you while he’s at it.”—Newsday

English for Everyone: Level 1: Beginner, Practice Book

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780744029437

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English for Everyone: Level 1: Beginner, Practice Book by DK Pdf

PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need paper and a pencil to complete the exercises. Practice makes perfect with this exciting guide to learning English. Work your way up with the ultimate self-study course that is easy to use and quick to learn. This practice book has a huge variety of bite-sized, attractively presented exercises to drill the language skills taught in English for Everyone Level 1 Beginner Practice Book. Hundreds of activities and accompanying audio cover listening, speaking, reading, and writing to reinforce language skills. You’ll expand your English vocabulary with topics like introducing yourself, your job, and hobbies and interests. Get to grips with grammar rules, including using apostrophes and joining sentences, and perfect your pronunciation with audio exercises by native speakers. Eye-catching illustrations and step-by-step explanations keep content simple and straightforward for easy learning. Level 1 Beginner Practice Book is part of DK's best-selling English for Everyone series. It is suitable for all levels of English language learners and provides the perfect reading companion for study, exams, work, or travel. With audio material available on the accompanying website and Android/iOS app, there has never been a better time to learn English.

English Drama

Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870913

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English Drama by Richard W. Bevis Pdf

What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.

American English

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770484283

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American English by Zoltan Kovecses Pdf

This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.

English as a Lingua Franca

Author : Ian Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134503810

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English as a Lingua Franca by Ian Mackenzie Pdf

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching. Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of: native and World Englishes multilingualism and intercultural communication sociolinguistic issues including accent and identity classroom teaching and learning English as a Lingua Franca is a useful guide for teachers and trainee teachers, and will be essential reading for advanced students and linguists concerned with multilingualism, language contact, language learning, language change, and the place of English in the world today.

A Companion to Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language

Author : Thomas Cable
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134425358

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A Companion to Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language by Thomas Cable Pdf

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language. Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful throughout the book. This third edition has been revised alongside the textbook and includes new exercises to accompany the sections on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change, and African American Vernacular English. This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English Language courses.

The Early English Impersonal Construction

Author : Ruth Möhlig-Falke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199777792

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The Early English Impersonal Construction by Ruth Möhlig-Falke Pdf

The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English can shed light on questions that remain about these verbs today.

Negation in Non-Standard British English

Author : Lieselotte Anderwald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134513840

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Negation in Non-Standard British English by Lieselotte Anderwald Pdf

Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either restricted regionally, or based on impressionistic statements. This book provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation across Great Britain.

Old and Middle English Language Studies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278708

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Old and Middle English Language Studies by Anonim Pdf

Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle English language studies; it lists books, monographs, dissertations, articles, notes, and reviews on Old and Middle English language. The items have been listed into fourteen fairly broad categories: (1) Bibliographies, (2) Dictionaries, glossaries and concordances, (3) Histories of the English language, (4) Grammars (historical, Old English and Middle English), (5) General and miscellaneous studies, (6) Language of individual authors or works, (7) Orthography and punctuation, (8) Phonology and phonetics, (9) Morphology, (10) Syntax, (11) Lexicology, lexicography and word-formation, (12) Onomastics, (13) Dialectology, (14) Stylistics.

The English and Their History

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101874776

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A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history. The English have come a long way from those first precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today’s England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity. Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly embarking on a new chapter. The English and Their History, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division and also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.

Getting Started with English Language Learners

Author : Judie Haynes
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416617518

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Getting Started with English Language Learners by Judie Haynes Pdf

"It's been six months, and I STILL can't get my English language learners to participate in class!" "How can I help my newcomers feel more comfortable around other students?" "Am I doing enough to help my English language learners succeed?" Have you had these thoughts? Take heart, you are not alone. As schools and districts swell with growing numbers of English language learners, and as administrators and teachers wrestle with federal guidelines for educating these students, many educators are faced with these same challenges and much more. To meet these challenges, it is imperative for educators to learn about and use the theories and teaching strategies that will help English language learners succeed in the classroom. In Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge, Judie Haynes provides a practical resource to help educators who are new to the field of English as a Second Language understand the needs of English language learners. From learning how students acquire a second language to differentiating instruction to exploring practical strategies for teaching newcomers, this book will help educators learn how to create effective learning environments for English language learners. Real-life scenarios from actual classrooms are presented throughout the book. The book also includes a brief overview of different types of ESL programs used in the United States and a helpful glossary of common ESL terminology. New teachers, veteran educators working with English language learners for the first time, and administrators can all use this book to increase their knowledge, improve their practice, and, most importantly, effectively educate and inspire English language learners.

Turn-taking in English and Japanese

Author : Hiroko Furo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135727581

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Turn-taking in English and Japanese by Hiroko Furo Pdf

This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction.

Women's Writing in Middle English

Author : Alexandra Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317863274

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Women's Writing in Middle English by Alexandra Barratt Pdf

Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including: Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages Texts translated by women in the Middle Ages Prayers, meditations, scriptural comment, and accounts of religious experiences Educational writings Romance, poetry Each poem is given a headnote, giving details of composition, manuscript and sources. Full on-page annotation is provided giving details of allusions to contemporary religious, historical and social issues. A general introduction gives context to all the pieces and provides a penetrating account of the role of women in a burgeoning society of literary and cultural transmission.