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By: Stephen M. Croucher This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory—the social scientific, interpretive, and critical approaches—and then takes on the theories themselves, with topics including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, intercultural communication, persuasion, critical...

By: Shalom Lappin The application of deep learning methods to problems in natural language processing has generated significant progress across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. For some of these applications, deep learning models now approach or surpass human performance. While the success of this approach...

By: Sandro Skansi This textbook presents a concise, accessible and engaging first introduction to deep learning, offering a wide range of connectionist models which represent the current state-of-the-art. The text explores the most popular algorithms and architectures in a simple and intuitive style, explaining the mathematical derivations in...

By: Ruth Gairns and Stuart Redman This is a practical guide for teachers on how to select, organise and teach vocabulary to all levels of students. It discusses the linguistic and psychological theories relevant to vocabulary learning, describes with clear examples traditional and current methods of presentation and...

By: Heather McKay, Abigail Tom Teaching Adult Second Language Learners addresses the needs of adults studying English. It provides a useful summary of the principles involved in teaching adults as well as a wealth of activities specifically designed for adult learners. The text is divided into three sections:...

Edited by: Norbert Schmitt and Michael McCarthy This volume examines the area of second language vocabulary studies from three broad perspectives: description, acquisition and pedagogical context. The book’s fifteen chapters are grouped together to achieve a balance between descriptions of what vocabulary is and how it behaves, how...