This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. It critically examines the practices a...

This is a handbook for managers of language teaching organizations such as Directors and Assistant Directors of Studies, Academic Directors, and School Owners, including those moving into a management...

This lively resource book encourages students to expand their speaking skills using role play, problem solving, puzzles, games, interviews, storytelling and discussion. Many of the speaking activities...

This collection provides an overview of current issues, debates, and approaches in Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) presented by internationally prominent researchers, educators, and emerging ...

Grammar in Use Intermediate is a highly successful grammar text known for its clear, concise explanations and innovative format. The Grammar in Use Intermediate Third edition Workbook provides student...

Providing an indispensable new A-Z reference to English usage for the twenty-first century, this guide covers more than 3000 points of word meaning, spelling, punctuation, grammar and style on which s...

Objective PET provides exam preparation and practice for the PET exam. This PET for Schools Practice Test Booklet with answers with Audio CD provides two complete practice tests for Cambridge ESOL´s n...

Professional English in Use Engineering presents and practises over 1000 words and phrases to help you function in English in your everyday working life. Using the highly successful format of presenta...

An invaluable resource helping teachers at all levels of experience to develop their understanding of English grammar. Grammar for English Language Teachers is designed to help practising and trainee ...

This best selling course has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today´s business and economics students. English for Business Studies Third Edition reflects recent changes in the world´s bus...

Essential grammar reference and practice for anyone using English in a business context. Grammar for Business is a must-have for intermediate business students and anyone using English in the workplac...

The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all interested in the issues of c...

First published in 1988, Grammar Practice Activities is a language teaching classic. This revised version combines tried and tested activities with up-to-date content including a CD-ROM. This is an in...

With 70 activities and games to suit a range of teaching situations, this book makes vocabulary learning an enjoyable experience for young learners. Easy to use and quick to prepare, the activities in...

Objective PET Second edition is a completely updated and revised edition of the best-selling Objective PET course. This edition includes several great new features, including brand new ´Corpus spots´ ...

Objective PET Second edition is a completely updated and revised edition of the best-selling Objective PET course. This edition includes several great new features, including brand new ´Corpus spots´ ...

Objective PET Second edition is a completely updated and revised edition of the best-selling Objective PET course. This edition includes several great new features, including brand new ´Corpus spots´ ...

Ready-made photocopiable lessons for Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) or bilingual education programmes. Photocopiable lessons designed to widen your pupils´ knowledge of the world outside ...

Part of the popular Primary Copy Collection series, Primary Music Box contains songs to help teachers consolidate language learning in an appealing and memorable way. This collection of photocopiable ...

This book provides a systematic survey of the theory and methods of dictionary-making (including the linguistic background): what types of dictionary there are, how different kinds of information are ...

This comparative study explores two central questions in the study of first language acquisition: What is the relative impact of structural and functional determinants? What is universal versus langua...

This book provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of research conducted during the last 20 years on the oral language, literacy, and academic development of English language learners in kinderga...

The study of teenagers in the classroom, and how they interact with one another and their teachers, can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton presents ...

Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It will be of interest to researchers and stud...

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language...

There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and s...

There is currently a global increase in the number of translated texts available. New courses on translation, theory of translation and translation studies are being introduced at the university level...

Anjum P. Saleemi argues that the acquisition of language as a cognitive system can properly be understood by pairing the formal approach to learning, often known as learnability theory, with Chomsky´s...

Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variatio...

This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing ...

What is involved in acquiring a new dialect - for example, when Canadian English speakers move to Australia or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such learning different f...

This authoritative textbook provides an overview and analysis of current second language acquisition research conducted within the generative linguistic framework. Lydia White argues that second langu...