Foreign language learning is a progressive endeavor. Whatever the method, the learner should advance from one point to another, constantly improving. Growing proficiency entails growing language content. Content is complex, displaying many dimensions. Syllabus designers, textbook authors, and teachers often struggle with the monitoring of content. Computer-assisted systemization helps to handle it in a manageable framework. Besides inventorying content, it ensures more balanced selections,...

A child’s brain is way more impressive in processing and storing new knowledge than the adults’. That is why it is best to feed your child all the lessons you want to store in his brain at an early age. This Guide to Learning French is your perfect partner to teach French language to your baby. Get it here

Most people give up trying to learn Mandarin Chinese after one month. Many people don't go further than a beginner's level. This is because they don't bother learning the grammatical structure of Chinese and therefore will never be able to fluently converse.The wrong way is to learn common phrases and hope that you can collect enough to "pick-up" the language. Unfortunately, most Chinese programs will teach you this way. I tried this and became frustrated because progress was extrem...

Beginner Verbs is the first ebook workbook in the series of Let's Play English. Ideal for beginners who want to learn the English language, ESL Beginner Verbs focuses on providing the basis for learning verb tenses such as verbs "be, do, have, go" as well as other common verbs. Present, Past, Future and negation tenses for beginners are presented in context, using clear and simple explanations. The goal of ESL Beginner Verbs is to establish a solid verb foundation as a building process to ...

This Book Covers The Following Topics:A Big MythList of PrepositionsEnding a sentence with a preposition – About, Against, At, By, For, From, In, Into, Of, On, Out, To, Upon, With - Example SentencesWhen to End a Sentence with a PrepositionSituation – 01 - Interrogative SentencesSituation – 02 - Passive Voice SentencesSituation – 03 - Infinitive StructuresSituation – 04 - Relative ClausesSituation – 05 - Phrasal VerbsHo...

What are "Informal Words?"Informal Words are connected with normal communication with your colleagues, acquaintances, family members, etc. Informal words are more common in speech than in writing. Informal words are used in the 'unofficial' language. These words are not used in 'official' or formal writing. This book covers around 1400 Informal words (including the names of parts of speech they belong to) and their meaningsNOTE:Many informal words are used in both Am...

This book explores the linguistic ecology of the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand, India through the experiences and discourses of minority youth and their educators. Providing in-depth examples of Indian multilingualism, this volume analyses how each language is valued in its own context; how national-level policies are appropriated and contested in local discourses; and how language and culture influence educational opportunities and identity negotiation for Kumauni young women. In doing so,...

This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such policymaking, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology spread globally and are adopted, rejected or adapted locally.

This book addresses the complex issues that arise in school-university collaborative action research projects. Employing sociocultural perspectives on examining professional practices of in-service teachers, it examines the complexities of negotiating beliefs, identities and interpersonal relations when educators from two different institutional cultures collaborate. Specifically, the book explores issues such as the discourses that are operative in school-university collaboration for Engl...

This volume offers research-based studies on English for Specific Purposes in higher education from across the world. By drawing on international studies, the book brings together diverse ESP practices and aspects of relevant issues in the development of ESP programs, teachers and learners in a coherent fashion. There is a growing need for undergraduate students to develop their proficiency of ESP skills and knowledge in the increasingly globalized world. Knowledge of ESP is an important f...

This book investigates the preparation of secondary history and social studies (SS) teachers to teach English language learners (ELLs) in twenty-first century classrooms. This edited collection focuses on the ways in which pre-service and in-service teachers have developed – or may develop – instructional effectiveness for working with ELLs in the secondary history and social studies classroom. The authors address a variety of standards and content examples, including the National Council ...

Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin examines and reviews the ecological context (including, e.g., the historical, political and educational issues) of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The planning goals pursued in these states are then examined in ter...