My children (age 5 & 7) are enjoying this book, though it would be a fun book for older kids as well. (I, too, am learning some things as we read it together for Home school). Each page can take us 15 minutes to get through due to all of the colorful pictures and TONS of fun facts about life long ago. Every few pages there is a simple art project the kids can do related to the page. They have enjoyed those too. I expected the book to be larger than it was when it arrived, but now that we have been reading it I see it is well worth the money.
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Applied Linguistics is one in a series of books by OUP, edited by H. Widdowson, geared to introduce new readers to the more complex and formal study of language use. Although considered a natural phenomenon, for educational purposes language use requires certain factors to be reviewed. These include: language skills; dialect or standard forms; new lexis; English as a lingua franca; and methodology.
In order to answer the many questions arising from these issues, facts about language use must be investigated and analyzed. Applied Linguistics approaches this task by studying the relation of knowledge about language to decision making in the real world (p. 5). Specific areas include: language and education; language work and law; and language, ... Read More:
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Guy Cook's call for greater consideration of play in language and in language teaching is thoroughly researched and convincingly argued. As an applied linguistics text, this book is useful to language teachers while not being prescriptive about classroom practice. It doesn't guide teachers through the 'trees' of language teaching method and technique, but rather provides an overview of the 'forest' and so provides a new perspective from which language teachers can view their subject matter and their practice.
So why would a busy language teacher spend time and effort to read this book - because it isn't a light read, especially in its more theoretical parts? Isn't the idea of language play somewhat peripheral to language and language ... Read More:
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This "Festschrift" for Henry Widdowson is littered by contributions from the creme de la creme of applied linguistics. Claire Kramsch, for instanc,e writes about the relation between applied linguist and language teacher while N.S Prabhu explores concept and conduct in language theory and Alan Davies contributes to the native speaker debate. Other contributers include Yamuna Kachru, Braj Kachru, Joseph Bisong and Bernard Spolsky.
This book can be recommended to readers who would like to have an overview of the work of many well known linguistics in one volume.
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This "Festschrift" for Henry Widdowson is littered by contributions from the creme de la creme of applied linguistics. Claire Kramsch, for instanc,e writes about the relation between applied linguist and language teacher while N.S Prabhu explores concept and conduct in language theory and Alan Davies contributes to the native speaker debate. Other contributers include Yamuna Kachru, Braj Kachru, Joseph Bisong and Bernard Spolsky.
This book can be recommended to readers who would like to have an overview of the work of many well known linguistics in one volume.
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We use this book for our school at home program when discussing what people ate a long time ago. It is very clear, easy to understand and the pictures only enhance the subject of discussion on each page. This is much better for younger children rather than older children.
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We use this book for our school at home program when discussing what people ate a long time ago. It is very clear, easy to understand and the pictures only enhance the subject of discussion on each page. This is much better for younger children rather than older children.
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We use this book for our school at home program when discussing what people ate a long time ago. It is very clear, easy to understand and the pictures only enhance the subject of discussion on each page. This is much better for younger children rather than older children.
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This book is absolutely beautiful. Although it is supposed to be a textbook for arithmetic, it is also filled with beautiful artwork and little stories to make the word problems much more interesting. The artwork is similar to Jessie Wilcox's art. There isn't much to write about an arithmetic book, except that because this one is from the 1930's and is filled with beautiful art and cute word problems, I would recommend this book to a book collector who loves children's illustrations or to the lovers of textbooks from the Dick and Jane era. It's a beautiful and charming little book.
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This book is absolutely beautiful. Although it is supposed to be a textbook for arithmetic, it is also filled with beautiful artwork and little stories to make the word problems much more interesting. The artwork is similar to Jessie Wilcox's art. There isn't much to write about an arithmetic book, except that because this one is from the 1930's and is filled with beautiful art and cute word problems, I would recommend this book to a book collector who loves children's illustrations or to the lovers of textbooks from the Dick and Jane era. It's a beautiful and charming little book.
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