New Book List

The third edition of the best-selling Oxford Picture Dictionary provides unparalleled support for vocabulary teaching to meet the needs of today's English language learners. 4,000 English words and phrases with meaningful, real-life contexts presented within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food, and Recreation, New and updated topics such as job search, career planning, and digital literacy equip students with the language they need for everyday success. Revised practice activities prepare students for work, academic study, and citizenship from the very beginning. Pre-reading questions build students' previewing and predicting skills, High-interest reading promote literacy skills, Post-reading questions support critical thinking and textual analysis. Workbooks at three levels provide multilevel classroom support.--Provided by Amazon.com.

CELPIP Focus: Reading and Writing provides you with the tools and strategies to succeed on the Reading and Writing components of the CELPIP-General Test. It explains the format of the test, how test questions are structured, and includes practice questions, skill-building activities, and more. Other key features of this book include test-taking skills for each test component; analyses of sample responses from test takers; explanations of computer navigation tools needed on the test; time management tips to help students maximize test times; and a comprehensive answer key with explanations. This textbook is recommended for intermediate-level students.

"This textbook provides you with the tools and strategies to succeed on the Listening and Speaking components of the CELPIP-General and CELPIP-General LS Tests. It explains the format of the test, how test questions are structured, and includes practice questions, skill-building activities, and more. This textbook is recommended for high beginner students and above."

English Grammar and Teaching Strategies aims to demystify grammar and equip any teacher to teach it in the classroom.

Carefully set out for ease of reference, this book covers every aspect of grammar, from nouns, adjectives and verbs to punctuation and prepositions. Each grammatical term is clearly defined and accompanied by varieties of usage and teaching strategies, which can be easily extended according to the age and key stage of the pupil. These strategies are for both spoken and written language and can be used for a whole class, small groups, with those with special educational needs and with EAL learners.

"This book exposes the current state of this methodological approach and observes its reverberations, usefulness, strengths, and weaknesses when used in a classroom where English is taught as a second language. In this way, this book will provide updated tools to explore teaching and learning through the most creative and enriching manifestations of one language - literature"-- Provided by publisher.

This book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts.

"Providing a simple - but not simplistic - introduction to the systemic functional grammar of English, this book serves as a launching pad for the beginning student and a review for the more seasoned linguist. With an introduction to systemic functional grammar (SFG) through lexicogrammar and the concept of rankshift, this book is the first introduction to SFG (including Appraisal) with examples exclusively sourced from twenty-first century texts. Written for those learning English and English linguistics as a foreign language, this serves as an easy-to-read introduction or refresher course for systemic functional linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.