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“The book can be read at many different levels. The reader can look for teaching ideas, and the administrator can search for valid suggestions on program improvement or reorganization. Its description of projects surveying students provides insights for those seeking to understand student motivation and [...]
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YOUR FIRST 100 WORDS IN . . . PASHTO A paperback original Takes the intimidation out of learning a new language In the Your First 100 Words In series, readers are shown how to decipher and read a new script by [...]
Open up a whole new world of communication through ASL You can easily learn ASL with help from The American Sign Language Phrase Book. With more than 500 phrases, this is the reference guide to everyday expressions in American Sign Language, providing a quick way for you to converse [...]
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ESL (English as a Second Language) students who reach an intermediate level of English don’t need endless drills in grammar or tedious vocabulary lists; they need to learn how to make their English sound natural. Fluent English is the ideal course for developing native-like fluency in English. It focuses on the [...]
Language Learning in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing looks at the acquisition of language by children with hearing losses and proposes multiple pathways by which students can acquire a practical system of communication. Recent advances in the education of students who are deaf and hard of hearing have brought [...]
How to say it in sign. With over 600 photos and an instructional DVD. Focusing on the popular Contact Signing mode (formerly referred as Pidgin Sign Language), this is the perfect guide to the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations. [...]
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Learning New Languages: A Guide to Second Language Acquisition is a thorough account of key principles of Second Language Acquisition. Voices from the classroom, as well as activities for reflective research, engage the reader in an interactive exploration of how learners acquire new languages.
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‘Not only does White offer a comprehensive guide to the study of languages at a distance, but much credit should also be given to the author for her successful efforts in unraveling the ever increasing number of competing definitions, overlapping concepts and eclectic approaches that have mushroomed [...]
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In the first edition of The Meaning Makers, Gordon Wells used a wealth of observational data to demonstrate the importance of talk with adults for children’s learning and development. The book worked especially well because it included the voices of the children and adults in its [...]
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“The articles in this volume discuss their subjects in a variety of ways, ranging from the anecdotal to the highly analytic and highly quantitative. . . . serve as a motivator for teachers to depend less on what their textbooks tell them to do and to [...]
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