Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

Edited by: Garold Murray, Xuesong Gao, Terry Lamb In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a...
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Orthography and Phonology

by Philip A. Luelsdorff Collected here are eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the orthography/phonology interface. Topics include spelling-to-sound correspondence for English, French, and Russian, the design of a generative phonology for orthography data-base access, the linguistic sign and orthographic and phonological error, the analysis of Greenlandic...
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Greater Essays

By: Keith S. Folse, Tison Pugh Greater Essays uses more challenging models and assignments to give students opportunities to further develop their essay writing and vocabulary skills. Download http://usafiles.net/Ba5/Greater_Essays.pdf
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Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces

By: Roy Peter Clark The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story’s too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer’s block is rearing its ugly head. In Help! For Writers, Roy Peter Clark presents an “owner’s manual” for writers, outlining the...
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Writing with Style: Grammar in Context

By: Heather Pyrcz Innovative and engaging, Writing with Style helps students understand the intricacies of grammar through the deconstruction and rebuilding of a variety of high-interest literary quotations. By showing how specific elements and devices are used to create meaning, this concise text is anindispensable grammar guide for...
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The Language of Metaphors

By: Andrew Goatly In this ambitious and wide-ranging textbook Andrew Goatly explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to communicate meaning as well as...
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