The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be, enjoyed exclusively by linguists. This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists-not people who speak several languages but academic linguists (for whom linguistics is the scientific study of language). Though this book is, informed by linguistics, it is not a linguistics book, rather a language-not-linguistics book. It is a book about topics involving language that interest me and that I...

English conversation lessons for Thai learners.

We have compiled these exercises as English Language Teachers in Malaysia. We have used them for our children, our friends children and our tuition students and they have scored A1 in all their examinations. Today they can converse comfortably with anyone from the US, Great Britain or Australia. We could not use these exercises fully with our classroom students because we were tied down by the constraints of the Government Syllabus and insufficient...

English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing is the first ever book of its kind specifically written for researchers of all disciplines whose first language is not English. With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with authentic examples taken from real emails, referee's reports and cover letters, you will learn how to: • use strategies for understanding native speakers of English • significantly improve your listening skills • organize...

This book is an adaptation of 'Semantic Analysis' by Professor Cliff Goddard. It aims to teach the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to enable clear communication by the non-expert reader and by people on the autism spectrum.

MOHAMED TAHIR TALIB had his early education in Singapore and thence to The English College, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Trained as an English and History teacher in the Regional Teachers Training Centre, he has taught in schools in Johor. He retired as an Assistant Headmaster. NORZIMAH ISMAIL had her early education at the Sultan Ibrahim Girls School, Johor Bahru and thence her secondary education at the Convent of The Holy Infant Jesus, Johor Bahru. Trained...

Enrichment in English is valuable for students who have achieved a good level of proficiency in English and who are keen to increase their command of vocabulary, to be able to express themselves effectively, and to be able to describe a situation or a scene. Students are encouraged to write the equivalent term in their own language for any new word or phrases. Enrichment is also a good reference for one who wish to discover other interesting expects...

But what of our limitations? Beyond all the theories of how much we can do, people began to speculate about what we could not do. When and where do we stop? Are intelligence and learning capacity like a measuring cup, and we as vessels limited to only hold a certain amount? Or, is it more like a scale that can weigh as much as it's given to evaluate? This question has been asked over and over. Eventually, experts would agree that past a certain stage...

The studies gathered and reported in this volume by Maria Lourdes S. Bautista represent the first sustained effort in this country going beyond one-time studies to fulfill the requirement of a masteral thesis or doctoral dissertation to study interaction in different classes of one institution and to look at the process for possible implications for language teaching. The pioneering set of studies uses both a qualitative description of the ethnography...

Appuyé par la lecture de plusieurs dizaines d'ouvrages et fruit d'une longue réflexion personnelle, l'ouvrage proposé fait le point sur la complexité souvent inutile du français et propose des moyens simples de le réformer. Le français est une langue compliquée. La réformer en vue de la simplifier n'est pas une mince tâche d'autant plus que l'opposition à toute modernisation est vive, tant en Europe qu'au Québec. L'orthographe du français...