By: Lester Kaufman, Jane Straus Hailed as one of the best books around for teaching grammar, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation includes easy-to-understand rules, abundant examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to middle and high schoolers, college students, ESL...
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by Jeremy Marshall , Fred McDonald Why is “f” used instead of “s” in old-fashioned writing and printing? What does “corned” mean in “corned beef?” How many words are there in the English language? Is the correct plural of “octopus” spelled “octopuses” or “octopi”? Since the Oxford Word...
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By: Olivia O’Sullivan, Anne Thomas How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively? Based on a three-year longitudinal study of children’s spelling in different primary classrooms, Olivia O’Sullivan, Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and Anne Thomas,...
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Edited by: Georgina Tuari Stewart , Nesta Devine , Leon Benade This book focuses on academic writing and how academics who are experts in their fields can translate their expertise into publishable form. The magnitude and speed of the changes that are transforming the global academic landscape produce...
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Editors: Elken, M., Maassen, P., Nerland, M., Prøitz, T.S., Stensaker, B., Vabø, A. This book focuses on quality work in higher education, and examines the relationship between the organizational and pedagogical dimensions of quality work in higher education. Bringing together different disciplinary traditions, including educational science, sociology, and...
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by Li, Zhan This book examines a ubiquitous, yet under-researched, area of language education, i.e., language teachers’ use of curriculum materials. It particularly focuses on EFL teachers’ use of prescribed curriculum materials in higher education in Mainland China and presents a qualitative, multi-case study involving four Chinese EFL...
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Authors: Nagai, N., Birch, G.C., Bower, J.V., Schmidt, M.G. This book is a practical guide to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001) and the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR/ CV; COE 2018), which have increasingly been used to inform...
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Editors: McLaughlin, T., Chester, A., Kennedy, B., Young, S. This book shares exemplary teaching and learning practices from the tertiary sector, and addresses important issues concerning quality, scholarship and innovation in teaching and learning in tertiary settings. It takes on classic issues regarding curricula, technologies and assessment, but...
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Editors: Houghton, Stephanie Ann, Bouchard, Jérémie This book explores native-speakerism in modern language teaching, and examines the ways in which it has been both resilient and critiqued. It provides a range of conceptual tools to situate ideological discourses and processes within educational contexts. In turn, it discusses the...
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