Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> English as a Second Language

This book explores the experiences of men and women who train to teach ESL as a second career. Drawing from in-depth interviews and observations of 30 students (aged 45 to 73) in a TESOL graduate program, this book provides portraits of these individuals as they develop as teachers. It describes the processes they go through to launch their teaching careers, the successes and challenges they face, and the evolving significance of their work in their overall life goals and achievements. A welcome addition to the growing literature on teacher development, this book will be an important...

- 48 speaking topics (six for each speaking task) just like those in CELPIP(R)
- 40 high-scoring, easy-to-say model responses created by a test expert
- Detailed introductions and step-by-step guides to all eight speaking tasks
- Practice exercises and study tips to help you deliver effective responses
- Dozens of useful words and phrases for natural, accurate speaking

Practical Mandarin Conversation is a book that contains only twenty chapters which focuses on the teaching and learning materials of Chinese language and culture. These are the features of this book: (1) each Chinese character is marked with Chinese Pinyin (including four tones) in order to facilitate the readers in reading, a characteristic that other Chinese teaching materials do not have; (2) all contents focus on introducing the Chinese culture, its natural and humanistic landscape; (3) most of the topics are limited to about two pages; (4) each topic is made up mainly of practical and...

Pre and Post Competition Muscle Building Recipes for Bodybuilding will help you increase the amount of protein you consume before and after competing which will allow you muscles to recover and grow.

These meals will help increase muscle in an organized manner by adding healthy portions of protein to your diet. Not feeding your body properly before competition and cause you to perform negatively simply because of lack of strength and energy which are vital to do your best. Eating and nourishing your body after competition can have an even greater effect on your future performances...

Homemade Protein Bar Recipes to Accelerate Muscle Development for Weightlifting: Naturally improve muscle growth and lower fat to lift more and recover faster

This book will help you increase the amount of protein you consume per day to help increase muscle mass. These meals will help increase muscle in an organized manner by adding large healthy portions of protein to your diet. Being too busy to eat right can sometimes become a problem and that's why this book will save you time and help nourish your body to achieve the goals you want. Make sure you know what you're...

This volume presents the results of two tasks examining the acquisition of plosive voicing contrasts in L2 English by college students with Cypriot Greek (CG) backgrounds. The tasks focus on the different factors affecting plosive identification and the types of errors involving plosives. With respect to the first issue, the phonetic perception of plosives turns out to be better in voiceless consonants compared to their voiced counterparts, thus providing evidence for the importance of the voicing contrast factor. With respect to the second issue, the results point to the same direction...

Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal authors in the field of literary gerontology, while it also elaborates on important theories that age-critics have developed in the broader field of cultural gerontology, to present the experience of ageing, and old age in particular, as a creative phase of the life course that completes the older person s identity and,...

The third edition of English Grammar: An Introduction:
- Contextualises grammar through a clear step-by-step...

Bringing together current research, analysis, and discussion of the role of corrective feedback in second language teaching and learning, this volume bridges the gap between research and pedagogy by identifying principles of effective feedback strategies and how to use them successfully in classroom instruction. By synthesizing recent works on a range of related themes and topics in this area and integrating them into a single volume, it provides a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students, teachers, and teacher educators in various contexts who seek to enhance their skills and...

Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881-1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four sons, and the birth of their only daughter right before the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. It describes how she and a whole immigrant generation survived that Depression, sent their...