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Essential Linguistics: What You Need to Know to Teach Reading, ESL, Spelling, Phonics, and Grammar by David E Freeman Publisher Comments The resource guide provides the instructor with suggested answers and responses to the Application Activities at the end of each chapter. Linguistics is much more than a study reserved for academicians. Linguistics has real-life applications to effective... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How Languages Are Learned by Patsy M Lightbown Publisher Comments This thoroughly updated third edition presents the main theories of language acquisition, considering their bearing on language teaching. It discusses the effects of factors such as intelligence, personality, and age. It helps teachers assess the merits... (read more) List Price $47.44 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us....Bryson's book, Mother Tongue...is the one that convinced me he could probably write informatively and with humor about anything. I mean, who... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Mouths of Slaves : African American Language and Educational Malpractice (99 Edition) by John Baugh Publisher Comments Baugh's inquiry ranges from the origins of African American English among slaves and their descendants to its recent adoption by standard English speakers of various races. Some of the topics he considers include practices and malpractices for educating... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation by Robert Kegan Publisher Comments In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Kegan and Lahey take readers on a carefully guided journey designed to help them arrive at their own particular answers to solve the puzzling gap between what they intend and what they are able to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Language and Myth (46 Edition) by Ernst Cassirer Publisher Comments Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlas of Languages (Rev 03 Edition) by Bernard Comrie Comrie, Maria Polinsky, Stephen Matthews Publisher Comments An informative guide to the ever-changing world of languages. The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture. Today, scientists and scholars are rendering these origins less obscure with clues from linguistic and archaeological... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing readers in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. 16-page insert.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 2nd Ed by George Lakoff Publisher Comments In this classic text, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious and rhetorical worldviews of liberals and conservatives, discovering radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau Publisher Comments The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Means This, This Means That : User's Guide To Semiotics (07 - Old Edition) by Sean Hall Publisher Comments Semiotics is the theory of signs. Signs are amazingly diverse: from simple road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns us of fire, to the culturally-conditioned symbols buried within art and literature. Our reading of signs is very much a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language Development (8TH 12 Edition) by Robert E. Owens Publisher Comments As the most widely used text for introductory language development courses across the country, this comprehensive text allows students to understand every aspect of the discipline from a developmental perspective. Structured practically and... (read more) List Price $142.50 Your price: $114.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Encyclopedia of English Language (2ND 03 Edition) by David Crystal Publisher Comments Superbly illustrated in colour throughout, this is the most comprehensive survey of the history, structure and worldwide use of English ever written.... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $43.25 New - Trade Paper
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How To Be a More Successful Language Learner : Toward Learner Autonomy (2ND 94 Edition) by Joan Rubin Publisher Comments How to Be a More Successful Language Learner incorporates the latest thinking about learner strategies and language learning. Language learners and teachers alike discover the psychological, linguistic, and practical aspects of the successful acquisition... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price: $72.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Focus on Form in Classroom Second Language Acquisition (98 Edition) by Catherine Doughty Publisher Comments This volume examines theoretical foundations, empirical research, and pedagogical implementations of focus on form. Traditional language teaching can result in limited fluency, whereas communicative approaches tend to produce fluency with less accuracy... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language Development : From Theory To Practice - With CD (2ND 12 Edition) by Khara L. Pence Turnbull Publisher Comments With a focus on individual differences in language development, this second edition provides readers with a multidisciplinary survey of language development from birth to adulthood that balances research and theory with practice. Supplemented with both a... (read more) List Price $128.65 Your price: $103.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language in Society by Suzanne Romaine Publisher Comments Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Educating Second Language Children: The Whole Child, the Whole Curriculum, the Whole Community (Cambridge Language Education) by Fred Genesee Publisher Comments Educating Second Language Children is a collection of articles from fourteen elementary education experts who espouse an integrative approach to second language education, one that goes beyond language teaching methodology to cover a wide range of issues... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Global Diasporas (2ND 08 Edition) by Robin Cohen Publisher Comments The first edition of this book showed how the ancient Greek concept of diaspora could be refurbished to understand many aspects of ethnic diversity and international migration. In this second, fully revised edition, Robin Cohen has clarified and extended... (read more) List Price $60.95 Your price: $46.00 Used - Hardcover
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Approaches To Discourse (94 Edition) by Deborah Schiffrin Publisher Comments Approaches to Discourseis a guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics.... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $62.00 Used - Trade Paper
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