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I hope educators at every level are attracted to this book as a teaching tool. —Derrick Bell, from the forewordGloria Browne-Marshalls Race, Law, and American Society builds on the great vision of the late great Barbara Jordan: How will America become as great as its promise? Black courageous citizens have been at the forefront of this movement. This book is a gem. —Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton UniversityBrilliantly researched, Gloria Browne-Marshalls history of Race, Law, and American Society is bold and challenging; dramatic, comprehensive, and galvanizing. Everyone concerned about justice and dignity, civility, the law and human survival will want to read, and assig (more…)
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“Nowhere have I read the kind of front-line reporting that Bonnie J. Morris foregrounds in her book: the verbatim ongoing insults, challenges, and accusations. This kind of personal testimony puts a human face on the backlash, bringing history to life.” — Carolyn Gage, playwright, performer, director, and activist”Bonnie Morris’s book is a wise and witty read — eloquent, passionate, lucidly organized, and wide-ranging. The subject — women’s studies and the vexing backlash against the field — is crucially important not only in the academy but for general audiences as well. Morris gives all the issues the intense attention they deserve.” — Sandra M. Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer (more…)
Helping students understand the power of grammarfrom the inside out has the potential to transform theirwritingand develop their lifelong love of with language.?? Angellilo shows how to teach students all the essentialskills they need related to grammar through deeply engaging inquiry study including strategies such as mentorsentences from well-loved literature as a way to teachstudents the sense or cadence of a complete sentence?? The author identifies mentor texts perfect for minilessonsthat support smart grammar study ?? Includes instructional strategies that build on the mentor texts ???? Helps teachers understand the grammar skills students need to thrive B78 and how best to introduce them over the course (more…)
“All Aboard” teaches the strategies children need to become successful readers. It offers carefully-structured materials to develop sight vocabulary, phonological awareness and information retrieval through three specially-designed strands for Infants. It then develops the higher order reading and writing skills necessary for genuine literacy at Junior level. “All Aboard” also provides a full range of genres and types of writing, required by the NLS framework, to which children can apply their various skills. It offers a wide variety of structured texts including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, traditional tales and short stories. The programme provides support for teaching shared, guided and group reading and writing. (more…)
face2face is a six level general English course for adults and young adults. It goes from Starter level through to Advanced. The Student’s Book provides approximately 80 hours of core teaching material, which can be extended to 120 hours using the photocopiable resources and extra ideas in the Teacher’s Book. An interactive CD-ROM, which comes free with the Student’s Book, encourages learner autonomy with exercises in all language areas, video, games, customisable tests and a progress chart. New for the Advanced level of face2face, ‘Accurate Writing’ sections help students overcome typical problems such as spelling and punctuation. What’s more, ‘Real World’ lessons help learners become more spontaneous, natural commu (more…)
face2face is a six level general English course for adults and young adults. It goes from Starter level through to Advanced. The Student’s Book provides approximately 80 hours of core teaching material, which can be extended to 120 hours using the photocopiable resources and extra ideas in the Teacher’s Book. An interactive CD-ROM, which comes free with the Student’s Book, encourages learner autonomy with exercises in all language areas, video, games, customisable tests and a progress chart. New for the Advanced level of face2face, ‘Accurate Writing’ sections help students overcome typical problems such as spelling and punctuation. What’s more, ‘Real World’ lessons help learners become more spontaneous, natural commu (more…)
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“The Handbook of Writing Research arrived just in time for my doctoral seminar on writing! Each chapter in this wonderfully comprehensive volume provides a review and synthesis of current research and theory on a different aspect of writing. My students will be introduced to contributions by a range of international authors who discuss cognitive, affective, sociocultural, and instructional aspects of writing product, process, and context, and who raise critical issues and questions that give us direction for further research. Writing teachers like myself, writing program administrators, writing researchers, literacy specialists, teachers, and graduate students undoubtedly will find this handbook an invaluable resour (more…)
This intuitive guide to learning a language – whether for business, relocation, emigration, holiday or interest – tells you the quickest, most effective way of learning the language you need to know.
About the Author
Gill James has published several collections of teaching materials, which emphasise the students’ control of their own language learning. She has worked for 25 years teaching modern languages both in schools and as a private tutor to adults of all ages. It was in the course of offering private tuition that she discovered the way, outlined in this book, of making the learning of languages more effective. This has also led to the formation of Gill’s language school, Bridge House Languages, which (more…)
REVIEW, PRACTICE & MASTERY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS GRADE 8
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‘An integrated and coherent treatment of research conducted in second language classes … highly recommended.’ Merrill Swain, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education’ … a remarkably comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of the empirical literature.’ Rosamond Mitchell and Christopher Brumfir, Centre for Language in Education, University of Southampton
This important new book provides a critical overview of recent classroom-centered research and its implications for the teaching and learning of languages. Chaudron synthesizes and evaluates crucial research about the way student and teacher behaviours affect language learning and discusses research methods. Second Language Classrooms will be of vit (more…)
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