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Aimed at all those who are taking English degrees or teaching them, English in Practice is a reflective overview of the discipline's core and why we study it. This book acts as a map for the terrain of English studies and can be used from pre-degree through to Masters level.

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Examines different conceptions of English as an international language, looking at world Englishes, native-speakers and 'standard' English. This book also covers the pedagogical implications of English as an international language; and addresses key questions with regard to the teaching of English.

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Examines different conceptions of English as an international language, looking at world Englishes, native-speakers and 'standard' English. This book also covers the pedagogical implications of English as an international language; and addresses key questions with regard to the teaching of English.

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Provides a critical analysis of the materials used for learning English around the world, considering both the teachers' and the learners requirements. This research is useful for academics researching materials development and applied linguistics and for students on post-graduate applied linguistics and ELT courses.

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Presents a review of the materials used for learning English around the world. This book includes a discussion of materials for specific learners and purposes while presenting a study of the materials used in different countries, and evaluating their effectiveness in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages.

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A collection of unique, practical insights on teaching English in Latin America, direct from the teachers themselves.

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This text provides a practical guide to teaching English to students for whom English is not their first language. It features lesson planning and testing, covering all four modes of language: reading, listening, talking and writing, as well as the teaching of grammar and vocabulary.

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The trend within English teaching in China is for 'communicative competence' - that is, in being understood even if the English usage is incorrect. This volume argues that more solid grammar teaching must be coupled to this communicative competence, if English language teaching in China is to be successful.

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Examines not only the importance of English language teaching in China, but also the need for this teaching to be modernized in order for China to better join the world economy. This volume argues that grammar teaching must be coupled to this communicative competence, if English language teaching in China is to be successful.

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Offers a novel approach for producing and interpreting lexical semantics, hinging on the central assumptions of cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics

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Covers key aspects of English phonology to help readers go on to teach pronunciation, diagnose problem areas and prioritize important skills. This book aims to provide a clear description of key aspects of English phonology in order to help teachers diagnose and prioritize problem areas in pronunciation.

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As translation involves more than mere mechanics but as a discipline tied to cultural understanding, translators must focus on the dissimilarities and incongruities between the source and target societies, as well as their languages. The work concludes by analyzing the published translations of two works.

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Gives an introduction to culturally determined aspects of communicating in British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American societies. This book focuses on effective communication with members of these societies, especially on correcting false stereotypes which may cause misunderstandings.

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Gives an introduction to culturally determined aspects of communicating in British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American societies. This book focuses on effective communication with members of these societies, especially on correcting false stereotypes which may cause misunderstandings.

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"A practical guide to the art and craft of nature writing, covering non-fiction, fiction, poetry and polemical writing"--

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"A practical guide to the art and craft of nature writing, covering non-fiction, fiction, poetry and polemical writing"--

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Examining spaces where leisure activities are offered on sites of industrial waste, this book argues that such heterotopic spaces may foster a remaking of public environmental responsibility and ecological care that is not based on a utopian vision of environmental purity but an attempt to exist responsibly in the continued presence of waste.

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Scholarly considerations of the relationship between the United States government and Native Americans have largely ignored the rhetoric utilized by both in the course of their ongoing conflicts.

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Gregory S. Moss examines the central arguments in Ernst Cassirers first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms to show how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form, and how he borrows the concept of the concrete universal from G. W. F. Hegel in order to develop a concept of cultural autonomy.