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  • Adult ESL/Literacy From the Community to the Communityby Elsa Auerbach; Byron Barahona; Julio Midy; Felipe Vaquerano; Ana Zambrano

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 43.95

    Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training tells the story of a university-community collaboration to develop, implement, and evaluate a project designed to train immigrants and refugees as adult ESL and native literacy instructors in their own communities. Beyond the story of this one... more...

  • Adult Eslby Trudy Smoke

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95

    The essays in this book focus on political strategies, pedagogical models, and community programs that enable adult ESL learners to become vital members of North American society. This is particularly important in our present time of contraction and downsizing in the education of non-native speakers. The authors represent a broad range of programs... more...

  • Peripheral Visions for Writing Centersby Jackie Grutsch McKinney

    Utah State University Press 2013; US$ 20.00

    Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center—that it is solely a comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-to-one tutoring on their writing—McKinney shines light on other... more...

  • Patterns and Meanings in Discourseby Alan Partington; Alison Duguid; Charlotte Taylor

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 149.00

    This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor,... more...

  • Understanding Language Classroom Contextsby Martin Wedell; Angi Malderez

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 39.95

    Arguably the whole point of education is to effect change in what people know and are able to do. Globalization has contributed to a common perception worldwide of the need to introduce changes to the teaching and learning of languages. The success of many attempts to do so has been limited by insufficient consideration of implementation contexts.... more...

  • Crossover Englisch - Lateinby Gabriele Hille-Coates

    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013; US$ 22.03

    Hauptbeschreibung Sie möchten Ideen und Methoden aus den modernen Fremdsprachen auch für Latein nutzen? Crossover Englisch -- Latein bietet Ihnen fertig, kopierfähige Arbeitsblätter für den Lateinunterricht in den Bereichen Wortschatz, Textarbeit und Lernmethoden. Wie lernen Schülerinnen und Schüler eine Sprache... more...

  • Living Rhetoric and Compositionby Duane H. Roen; Stuart C. Brown; Theresa Jarnagin Enos

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95

    This collection--of the stories of scholars who have found a lifelong commitment to the teaching of writing--includes the professional histories of 19 rhetoricians and compositionists who explain how they came to fall in love with the written word and with teaching. Their stories are filled with personal anecdotes--some funny, some touching, some mundane.... more...

  • Kel Richards' Dictionary of Australian Phrase and Fableby Kel Richards

    University of New South Wales Press 2013; US$ 14.99

    Covering many unique?and sometimes peculiar?Australian slang phrases and words, this lighthearted guide shares the etymological history of almost 1,000 items from Australian-English lingo. The book includes how ?bloody? became an all-purpose swear word, why ?bludger? means a lazy person, the origin of ?stone the crows,? and what exactly defines ?dangle... more...

  • Deep Rhetoricby James Crosswhite

    University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 35.00

    “Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic,” claimed Aristotle. “Rhetoric is the first part of logic rightly understood,” Martin Heidegger concurred. “Rhetoric is the universal form of human communication,” opined Hans-Georg Gadamer. But in Deep Rhetoric , James Crosswhite offers a groundbreaking new conception... more...

  • Critical ELT in Actionby Graham V. Crookes

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95

    Uniquely bridging theory and practice, this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts, values, curriculum, instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for social justice.  Bringing  critical pedagogy to classroom... more...