Language Learning
The Progressive in Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes
This book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial phase of its grammaticalization between the 17th and 20th centuries. It uses data from the British component of ARCHER-2 (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers, version 2) to uncover the details of [...]
Language Attrition (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
'Language attrition' describes the loss of, or changes to, grammatical and other features of a language as a result of declining use by speakers who have changed their linguistic environment and language habits. In such a situation there may, for example, be simplification in the tense system or in certain properties of subordinate clauses; some [...]
Cambridge IELTS 8 Self-study Pack
Cambridge IELTS 8 contains four authentic IELTS papers from Cambridge ESOL, providing excellent exam practice. This Self-study Pack provides students with everything they need in order to familiarise themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material prepared by Cambridge ESOL. The Student's Book with answers contains four complete tests for Academic [...]
Speakout Upper-Intermediate Students Book and DVD/Active Book Multi Rom Pack
Book Name : Speakout Upper-Intermediate Students Book and DVD/Active Book Multi Rom Pack Writer：BBC Learning Publisher：Longman Publishing Group 2011 ISBN：1408219336 Format ：PDF/MP3/MP4/FLV ；1.17 GB；175 Pages
Audio Book :IELTS Express 1 Intermediate Coursebook (Exam Essentials) (Bk. 1)
IELTS Express is developed for students preparing to take the IELTS exam anywhere in the world. IELTS Express is a two-level series. IELTS Express Intermediate (4-5.5) provides comprehensive preparation for both the Academic and General Training modules. IELTS Express Upper-intermediate focuses exclusively on preparing learners for the Academic module. Extensive support materials are available for [...]
The College Writer: A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching
Combining streamlined basic writing instruction with outstanding accessibility, THE COLLEGE WRITER is a fully updated four-in-one text–with a Rhetoric, a Reader, a Researcher, and a Handbook–for students at any skill level. The clear visual "at-a-glance" format helps students grasp larger concepts by linking them to pertinent examples. Throughout the text, numerous student and professional writing [...]
First Steps in Academic Writing (The Longman Academic Writing Series, Level 2) (2nd Edition)
The second edition of First Steps in Academic Writing, by Ann Hogue, provides high-beginning to low-intermediate students with essential tools to master basic academic writing. The text's time-proven approach integrates paragraph organization, sentence structure, grammar, mechanics, and the writing process. First Steps leads students to build strong academic writing skills that will last them throughout their [...]
Barron’s TOEFL iBT
The TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) is an internet-based test, or iBT, and this updated edition of Barron's TOEFL manual simulates the test's internet-based format. The manual presents seven full-length model TOEFL iBT tests with explanations or examples for all questions, including sample essays and speaking responses. Author Pamela Sharpe also gives [...]
Q: Skills for Success 4 Reading & Writing Student Book with Student Access Code Card
Q: Skills for Success is a six-level series with two strands, Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking. The series provides students with: Clearly identifed learning outcomes that focus students on the goal of instruction Thought-provoking unit questions that provide a critical thinking framework for each unit Explicit skills instruction that builds student's language profciency [...]
Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture
This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for male identity formation. Each chapter mines American popular culture — theatre, film, literature, music, advertising, internet content, television, photography, and current events — to pose questions about the process of gender [...]