The culmination of more than a decade of research, this compelling volume offers a fresh approach for applying functional linguistics to assess student performance, to inform the teaching and learning
Traditionally, reading and writing are believed to be separate but related language processes and teachers follow the conventional wisdom of teaching in-depth reading, with writing as a tag-on issue.
As the founder and director of JLPTBootCamp.com—a prep website with more than 300,000 yearly visitors—Clayton MacKnight has helped thousands of students pass the JLPT. Now, he's distilled
Traditionally, reading and writing are believed to be separate but related language processes and teachers follow the conventional wisdom of teaching in-depth reading, with writing as a tag-on issue.
This Japanese language book contains 45 short lessons grouped into 12 chapters—each of which presents a wide variety of activities and exercises and yet is designed to be covered in a single ses
This book presents the principles of quality teaching in Chinese, as exemplified in case studies of primary and secondary school classrooms. Drawing on data from five Australian schools, the authors i
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Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language, it dev
Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language, it dev
This Korean picture dictionary covers the 1,200 most useful Korean words and phrases.It gives each word and sentence in Korean Hangeul characters with a Romanized version to help you pronounce it corr
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Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I, specific examples from global linguistic corpora ar
This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories availa
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Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Although you can get by in Thailand without speaking the language, knowing just a few phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service wi