Catálogo de libros: Alfabetismo

1241 Catálogo de libros: Alfabetismo

  • The Status of Critical Pedagogy in EFL Classrooms
    Azizullah Mirzaei / Maryam Ranjbar / Masoud Rahimi Domakani
    Critical Pedagogy (CP) is based on the idea that creating space for dialogues, negotiations and new knowledge construction should be at the forefront of our teaching frameworks. This book offers a review of the studies in critical Pedagogy in education in general and in second language acquisition in particular, and then reports a study which explored whether CP has found any p...
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    92,22 €

  • Androgynous Imagination of Difference
    Alla Boldina
    Revision with unchanged content. Over the last years, the interest in androgyny has reemerged. Androgyny as a literary ideal of a dual-sexed imagination has been revisited by Hoeveler, Rado, and Weil, to name the most current and prominent scholars in the field. Researchers have pointed out the vitiating factors that the androgynous ideal presents, including the inherent dichot...
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    119,33 €

  • Myths of Male Mothers
    Boyd Petersen
    Revision with unchanged content. The focus of Myths of Male Mothers is on nineteenth-century creation narra­tives, texts from the 1800s that depict the creation of an artificial being. In particular, Petersen focuses on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s L’Eve future. He considers each of these texts as an allegorical rend...
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    119,36 €

  • The Syntactic Evolution of Modal Verbs in the History of English
    Céline Romero
    In this work, we question the status of modal verbs in the history of English mainly from a minimalist and Distributed Morphology point of views. We propose the existence of a specific syntactic position for preterite-present verbs (which are the ancestors of the present-day modal verbs) in Old English and show that they are raising verbs. We then underline the grammaticalis...
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    124,39 €

  • Image of India
    Vijay F. Nagannawar / Vijay FNagannawar
    India is encountering some serious problems of cultural dilemma and dislocation today than ever before. People are at loss of their culture, relationships, human values and their own identities. Shashi Tharoor’s works portray the theme of communal divide and cultural dilemma, India is severely facing today. He projects these things as a permanent human wretched condition of t...
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    124,62 €

  • Learning Strategy Type, Age and Level of Education
    Karim Sadeghi / Sima Khezrlou
    The success of any teaching-learning enterprise is judged in terms of long terms gains of learners which distinguish successful from successful learners. The question which has intrigued many a researcher and practitioner in education in general and in the field of foreign language learning in particular has been whether there are certain learning strategies which successful le...
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    105,24 €

  • Philosophy in Learning English
    V. G. Shabaev / VGShabaev
    This study manual is intended for studying the English language at the ESP level, - graduate students, masters and postgraduates specializing in philosophy. The textbook contains the learning data (texts, tasks, role playing, tests) for reading, analyzing, repeating, consolidating, compressing and controlling students’ knowledge of the English language with the goal of successf...
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    92,15 €

  • Critical Issues in Literacy Pedagogy
    Eurvine Williams
    Every day, classroom teachers struggle with numerous issues involving literacy and literacy instruction. Many call on professors and instructors for advice and support. Critical Issues in Literacy Pedagogy: Notes from the Trenches, is a response to that call. This anthology presents current, relevant information on literacy issues that are related to comprehension, assessment, ...
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    67,22 €

  • Understanding Language Choices
    John Grummitt / Ken Decker
    Understanding Language Choices is an introductory textbook for anyone studying the motivations behind language use choices. It provides an introduction into the numerous factors, both internal and external, influencing such choices in a speech community: language attitudes, language learning, identity, the mobility of the community, and much more. The book also provides a found...
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    39,23 €

  • Read, Rhyme, and Romp
    Heather McNeil
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    64,24 €

  • Language Learning
    Tarique Memon
    This book explores the perceptions and practices of school students about the role of electronic media in enhancing Oral Communication Skills of the English Language in a Government Higher Secondary School in the rural context of Sindh Pakistan. This book seeks an acknowledgement as the first of its kind in the context of Government Schools in Pakistan which would contribute to...
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    76,38 €

  • Reading Strategies of First Year Engineering students
    Kalpana Ranganathan
    This book documents the qualitative analysis of reading strategies of engineering students attempting a cloze test. The study was undertaken at the researcher’s workplace (PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India), as a part of her Masters in Philosophy degree requirements. The participants of the study are first year engineering students from different branches of enginee...
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    76,38 €

  • Lecture Notes of English in Dentistry
    Mohammed Nihad Ahmed
    This book tries to include two aims; the first is to provide the students of dentistry a prelude to the English styles of writing and improve their practical abilities of using terminologies. Second, (Lecture Notes of English in Dentistry) is intended for students of dentistry at the high intermediate or advanced level who are well acquainted with the English structural patters...
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    90,88 €

  • Effective Vocabulary Teaching Techniques Used by EFL Teachers
    Anteneh Kebede
    In the teaching-learning process of any language, learners need to have good knowledge of words of the target language to become effective in their academic endeavor. And their effectiveness highly depends on the appropriateness of the teachers’ way of word teaching. In teaching the English vocabulary, it is obvious that there is no one best technique that works for all condit...
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    76,19 €

  • Communicative language Teaching
    Adeline Borti
    This book introduces its audience to the use of CLT in ESL context. The author investigates the relevance of CLT as an additional approach to improving the falling standard of English in Ghana. She uses CLT as the theoretical underpinning of the study. The central theoretical concept in CLT is communicative competence. Communicative competence includes sociocultural, strategic,...
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    76,25 €

  • The Man Who Heard the Song of Truth
    Nina von Dahlern
    Revision with unchanged content. Unlike many contemporary artists, edward estlin cummings made no attempt to formulate a theoretical basis for the concept of reality which is reflected in his work. His statements about what he considered real, and how he perceived truth were often rather confusing. Nevertheless, critics describe him as a serious poet with a philosophical framew...
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    89,65 €

  • Bharati Mukherjee’s Female Protagonists
    Atia Anwer Zoon
    All of U.S literature is multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial. One gets to know about diverse cultural identities, and different races having quite different ethnic backgrounds. In order to understand these multicultural writings one has to keep in mind the multiplicity of different racial and ethnic identities. Multiculturalism is a term which came into usage after the i...
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    124,64 €

  • The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstratives in English and Arabic
    Mai Zaki
    This research investigates the semantics and pragmatics of demonstratives in two languages, English and Arabic, within the framework of relevance theory. The study applies the fundamental distinction between ’conceptual’ and ’procedural’ semantics in an attempt to account for the various instantiations of such referring expressions in the two languages. It is argued that demons...
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    123,99 €

  • Language Learning Strategies and EFL Proficiency
    Md. Jahurul Islam / MdJahurul Islam
    This book reports the findings of a project that sought to discover the specific language learning strategies most frequently employed by the Bangladeshi EFL learners. The study, in addition, investigated the role of gender, proficiency level and study major on the employment of overall and individual language learning strategies. It was found that metacognitive strategy was th...
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    74,69 €

  • The Family Novel in North America from Post-War to Post-Millennium
    Kerstin Dell
    Revision with unchanged content. This study illustrates the generic development of the family novel in the second half of the twentieth century. It is a microscopic approach to novels featuring the American family and its (post-)postmodern variations. Dell’s work examines how the family, its forms and its conflicts are functionalized for an author’s cultural critique. From post...
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    119,24 €

  • Literacy, Information, and Development in Morocco during the 1990s
    Samia Touati
    This book offers readers a two-level investigation of the culture of literacy in Morocco. A handful of researchers approach literacy either through theory or through practice in general; however, this is the first study in the African context that tries to investigate the issue of literacy from both perspectives. ...
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    55,80 €

  • Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace
    Beatrice Quarshie Smith
    Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smithexplores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of different socio-economic forces, conducting a comparative study of two distinctly different workplaces to reveal sign...
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    131,94 €

  • Phonological Variation in Gikuyu language
    Catherine Waithera Ndungu
    This book presents phonological variation in the Gikuyu language spoken by Kamba speakers in Thika District. Its particular focus is on the variation in consonants and pitch pattern and whether these two are influenced by gender and age. The pronunciation of the selected phonemes and pitch by Kamba speakers who use Gikuyu is measured against the standard Gikuyu consonants and p...
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    76,19 €

  • An Outline of Communicative Language Teaching in Bangladesh
    Sofe Ahmed
    This research work entitled 'An Outline of Communicative Language Teaching in Bangladesh' is an empirical study of the realities of teaching English at secondary level in Bangladesh. The work particularly focuses on the current practices of communicative language teaching at secondary schools located in different areas of the Sylhet division of Bangladesh. It tries to highlight...
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    76,13 €

  • The Construction of Meaning in Intercultural Communication
    Liliana Coposescu
    The book is based on an empirical study of verbal communication between native speakers of english and romanians speaking english. The study integrates the pragmatic notion of ’activity type’ as a working framework within the interactional sociolinguistic theoretical paradigm of conversational inference in intercultural encounters. The aim is to investigate in detail the proced...
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    121,87 €

  • A Study of English Romanticism and Sufism as Literary Movements
    Mustapha Bala Ruma
    Comparative studies are veritable tools for unearthing similarities and differences between things, trends, phenomena and occurrences in the social world. Similarly, it has become a very important tool for literary analysis especially in attempts to look for parallels and divergences either between individual writers, groups or periods. The ultimate goal is to bring what is bei...
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    90,85 €

  • English Language Teaching in Engineering Colleges
    Divya Walia
    Time has changed and so have the professional and academic scenarios. We are witnessing scientific and technological revolutions world over, making life move really fast to catch up with the changes taking place around us. With these changes it is becoming increasingly important that industry and academia should be linked so that the human resource stepping out of the academic ...
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    76,63 €

  • Multiple Intelligences
    Abbas Ali Zarei / Nima Shokri Afshar
    Ever since the advent of the concept of multiple intelligences, it has been the subject of much interest among researchers and educational authorities. There has also been a considerable amount of controversy among experts as to how it can influence our learning. On the other hand, vocabulary and reading comprehension, as two of the most fundamental elements of language have al...
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    75,20 €

  • Globalisation and Cultural Decolonisation in Recent African Novels
    Nick Mdika Tembo
    This book brings together three disparate essays to consider the processes of globalisation and cultural decolonisation in African literature. Is globalisation an evil that has come to vandalise, dilute and re-image the rich African culture and history? Is there a possibility for African societies to reconstruct Africa’s life-sustaining social values, beliefs and customs withou...
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    76,51 €

  • Other Spaces, Other Voices
    Ryan Storment
    Revision with unchanged content. Islands periodically manifest themselves within cultural texts as locations for fantasy and the exotic. Through this process they function as a literary trope. Most often they are served up as blank slates, much like early visions of the western United States, where we meet cultural ’others’ or encounter exotic experiences. Island narratives dep...
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    75,20 €