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Dimensions of Literacy: A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings
by Stephen B. KucerThis popular text, now in its fourth edition, "unpacks" the various dimensions of literacy--linguistic and other sign systems; cognitive; sociocultural; and developmental--and at the same time accounts for the interrelationships among them. Distinguished by its examination of literacy from a multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspective, it provides a strong conceptual foundation upon which literacy curriculum and instruction in school settings can be grounded. Linking theory and research to practice in an understandable, user-friendly manner, the text provides in-depth coverage of the dimensions of literacy, includes demonstrations and "hands-on" activities, examines authentic reading and writing events that reflect key concepts, and summarizes the concepts in tables and figures. Changes in the Fourth Edition* Addresses academic language, new literacies/multiliteracies, and their relationship to literacy learning* More fully develops the developmental dimension of literacy in separate chapters on adult mediation and learner construction* Expands the discussion of multimodal literacies* Extends and integrates the discussion of bilingualism and biliteracy throughout the text* Integrates instructional implications more fully throughout
Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese (Routledge Studies In Chinese Linguistics Ser.)
by Zheng-Sheng ZhangDimensions of Variation in Written Chinese uses a corpus-based, multi-dimensional model to account for variation in written Chinese. Using statistical method and two-dimensional visual representation, it provides a concrete and objective view of the internal variation in written Chinese. This book is a timely work that addresses the growing interest in quantitative genre analysis and how knowledge thus gained can contribute to the teaching as well as understanding of the Chinese language. Zheng-sheng Zhang is Professor of Chinese at San Diego State University. He has been a long-term editor of the Journal of Chinese Language teachers Association (now known as Chinese as a Second Language) and is a respected researcher in the field of Chinese linguistics.
Directory of Language Training and Services for Business: A Guide to Resources in Further and Higher Education
by Colin Mellors David Pollitt Andrew RadtkeLanguage acquisition and training is a key concern for businesses of all types and sizes. This Directory is an invaluable resource for anyone needing information on language training for business. The Directory also provides information on services for business such as translation and interpreting. Ordered A-Z by institution, the Directory will enable speedy identification of providers from a bank of over 400 institutional and other contacts across the UK.
Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang)
by Matt Coleman Edmund BackhouseFoul your mouth—while expanding your Mandarin vocabulary—with a guide to the phrases that could get you a laugh . . . or a punch in the face.Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Chinese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:Cool slangFunny insultsExplicit sex termsRaw swear wordsDirty Chinese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of China:What’s up? Zenmeyàng?Fuck it, let’s party. Qù tama, zánmen chuqù feng ba.Who farted? Shéi fàng de pì?Wanna try doggy-style? Yàobù zánliar shìshì gou cào shì?Son of a bitch! Gouniángyang de!I’m getting smashed. Wo ganjué heduo le.I can’t eat this shit! Wo chi bù xià qù!
Dirty Czech: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang Ser.)
by Martin BlahaGET D!RTYNext time you're traveling or just chattin' in Czech with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: Cool slang Funny insults Explicit sex terms Raw swear wordsDirty Czech teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of the Czech Republic:What's up? - Co je?I adore your small titties - Zboznuju tvoje kuzlatka.I gotta take a leak. - Musim se vymocit.Your team sucks ass! - Tvuj tym je na hovno!Drop Dead you freak! - Chcipni, ty zrudo!I'm faded. - Jsem namazenej.Are you as horny as I am? - Jsi taky tak nadrzenej
Dirty French: Everyday Slang from (Dirty Everyday Slang Ser.)
by Henry Rowe Adrien ClautrierGET D!RTYNext time you're traveling or just chattin' in French with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: Cool slang Funny insults Explicit sex terms Raw swear wordsDirty French teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of France: What's up?Ça va? He's totally hot.Il est un gravure de mode. That brie smells funky.Ce brie sent putain de drôle. I'm gonna get ripped!Je vais me fracasser! I gotta piss.Je dois pisser. The ref is fucking asshole.L'arbitre est un gros enaelé! Wanna try doggy-style?Veux-tu faire l'amour en levrette?
Dirty German
by Daniel ChaffeyGET D!RTYNext time you're traveling or just chattin' in German with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: Cool slang Funny insults Explicit sex terms Raw swear wordsDirty German teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Germany: What's up?Wie geht's? I'm smashed.Ich bin total angeschickert. Fuckin' Munich fans.Scheiß München Fans. That shit reeks.Das riecht aber übel. I wanna shag ass.Ich will abhauen. What a complete asshole.Was für ein Arschloch. Dude, you're built like Arnold!Mensch, du bist der Arnie!
Dirty Italian
by Gabrielle EuvinoGET D!IRTY! Next time you're in Italy or just chattin' in Italian with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:* Cool slang* Funny insults* Explicit sex terms* Raw swear wordsDirty Italian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Italy:What's up? Che c'è? She's got killer legs. Le ha le gambe da morire. Get the fuck outta here! Sparisci! I'm so plastered. Sono demolito. I gotta piss. Devo pisciare. Your team sucks! La vostra squadra fa schifo! Wanna have a quickie? Facciamo una sveltina?
Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang)
by Matt FargoLearn cool slang, funny insults and all the words they didn’t teach you in class with this comprehensive guide to dirty Japanese.You’ve taken Japanese lessons and learned all kinds of useful phrases. You know how to order dinner, get directions, and ask for the bathroom. But what happens when it’s time to drop the textbook formality? To really know a language, you need to know it’s bad words, too. You need Dirty Japanese.From common slang and insulting curses to explicit sexual expressions, this volume teaches the kind of Japanese heard heard every day on the streets from Tokyo to Kyoto from “What’s up?” (Ossu?) to “I’m smashed,” (Beron beron ni nattekita.).
Dirty Portuguese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang)
by Alice Rose Nati Vale Pedro A CabralLearn cool slang, funny insults and all the words they didn’t teach you in class with this comprehensive guide to dirty Portuguese.You’ve taken Portuguese lessons and learned all kinds of useful phrases. You know how to order dinner, get directions, and ask for the bathroom. But what happens when it’s time to drop the textbook formality? To really know a language, you need to know its bad words, too. You need Dirty Portuguese.From common slang and insulting curses to explicit sexual expressions, this volume teaches the kind of Portuguese heard every day on the streets of Brazil. Learn to sound like a native speaker with phrases like:What’s up? — Tudo bem?Are those fake boobs? — Você tem silicone no peito?I need to take a piss. — Preciso mijar.That goalie is so weak. — Esse goleiro é uma mãe.Shit’s about to go down! — O coro vai comer!I’m smashed. — Tô bebum.Let’s fuck like animals. — Vamos trepar como animais.
Dirty Russian
by Igor Fisun Erin CoyneGET D!RTYNext time you're traveling or just chattin' in Russia with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: Cool slang Funny insults Explicit sex terms Raw swear words Dirty Russian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Russia:What's up?kak de-LA?I really gotta piss.mnye O-chen NA-do pos-SAT. Damn, you fine!blin, nu ti i shi-KAR-nii! Let's have an orgy.da-VAI u-STRO-im OR-gi-yu. This is crappy vodka.d-ta VOD-ka khre-NO-va-ya. Let's go get hammered.poi-DYOM bukh-NYOM. I'm gonna own you, bitch!ya te-BYA VI-ye-blyu!
Dirty Spanish: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang)
by Juan CaballeroLearn how to swear like a native speaker with this highly improper phrasebook! Learn the slang words, modern phrases, and curses they never taught you in Spanish class with this hilariously improper English-Spanish phrasebook. You already know enough Spanish to get by, but you want to be able to tell those inside jokes, greet your friends in a laid-back manner, and casually pick someone up at a bar. From &“What&’s up?&” to &“Wanna go home with me?&” Dirty Spanish will teach you how to speak like you&’re a regular on the streets of Madrid or Mexico City or Buenos Aires. But you&’ll also discover material that goes beyond a traditional phrasebook, including: *Hilarious insults *Provocative facts *Explicit swear words *Themed Spanish cocktails *and more! Next time you&’re traveling to Spain, Mexico, or South America—or just practicing your conversational Spanish—drop the textbook formality, and get dirty!
Dirty Spanish
by Juan CaballeroGET D!RTY!Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Spanish with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: cool slang funny insults explicit sex terms raw swear wordsDirty Spanish teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Spain and Latin America: What's up? ¿Qué tal? I'm shitfaced. Estoy mamado. Check out all the hotties! ¡Mírale las bomboncitas! Will you suck me off? ¿Me lo chuparías? I have the runs. Yo tengo un chorrillo. What a motherfucker! ¡Qué conchesuma! That forward is legit. Es chévere ese delantero.
Dirty Spanish Flash Cards: Everyday Slang From "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang)
by Juan CaballeroQuickly memorize the dirty words and off-color expressions not taught in any Spanish class. Flashcards aren’t just for developing an SAT vocabulary. With Dirty Spanish Flashcards, readers can quickly master the bawdy Spanish terms never seen in a textbook. From casual greetings and cutting put-downs to explicit sex terms and filthy swear words, each flashcard presents a hip vocabulary word and example sentence on one side and an English definition on the reverse. It’s a fun and fast way to learn the real Spanish spoken daily on the streets of Latin America and Spain. This deck is designed for readers to master Spanish and engage people in a foreign language on an entirely new level. With phrases like “I’m plastered!” and “Let’s hit the clubs!”, readers will be making new friends in no time. In addition to pickup lines and insults, the deck contains other contemporary slang like globos, literally “globes” but which can also refer to a woman’s personal endowments; or malparido, which means “badly born,” but can be used to call someone an a**hole.Featuring:• Cool slang• Funny insults• Explicit sex terms• Raw swear words
Dirty Spanish Workbook: 101 Fun Exercises Filled with Slang, Sex and Swearing (Dirty Everyday Slang Ser.)
by Nd BLEARN SPANISH THE D!RTY WAY! Classroom workbooks teach conjugation with lame verbs-I walk, you walk, he walks. Eff that. Wouldn't you rather be learning I hook up, you hook up, we hook up (Yo ligo, tu ligas, nosotros ligamos)? This book teaches you Spanish using the expressions you really want to learn including cool slang, funny insults, raw swear words and explicit sex terms. Packed with fun stuff they don't teach in school, Dirty Spanish Workbook includes:* Sample Dialogues for Picking Up Sexy Locals* Labeled Illustrations of Hot Spots on a Bangin' Body* Conjugation Exercises on Conjugating* Word Search for Dancing, Clubbing and Partying Terms* Fill-in-the-Blank Sentences to Describe a Hottie* Multiple Choice Quizzes featuring Drunk, Wasted and Stoned Vocabulary
Dirty Yiddish: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang)
by Adrienne GusoffNext time you’re chattin’ with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that’ll liven up the conversation.Nothing is censored in Dirty Yiddish. It includes phrases for any situation, so readers have enough chutzpah (balls) to tell the local deli that they’ve waited long enough for their knish, and explicit swear words crude enough to shock Bubby and everyone else at the Passover seder. There’s even vulgar sex terminology so graphic it puts the outspoken Lower East Side princesses to shame. Bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including cool slang, funny insults, explicit sex terms, and raw swear words. Dirty Yiddish teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of New York . . . What’s up? Vos makhst du?Crazy bastard! Meshuggeneh momzer!I’m hammered. Ikh bin fershikkert.Don’t fuck with me! Bareh mikh nit!I have the shits. Ikh hob a shittern mogn.Lick my pussy. Lekh meyn lokh.Was it good for you? Tsufreedn?
Discipline-Specific Writing: Theory into practice
by John Flowerdew Tracey CostleyDiscipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide to the teaching of this topic for students and trainee teachers. This book highlights the importance of discipline-specific writing as a critical area of competence for students, and covers both the theory and practice of teaching this crucial topic. With chapters from practitioners and researchers working across a wide range of contexts around the world, Discipline-Specific Writing: Explores teaching strategies in a variety of specific areas including science and technology, social science and business; Discusses curriculum development, course design and assessment, providing a framework for the reader; Analyses the teaching of language features including grammar and vocabulary for academic writing; Demonstrates the use of genre analysis, annotated bibliographies and corpora as tools for teaching; Provides practical suggestions for use in the classroom, questions for discussion and additional activities with each chapter. Discipline-Specific Writing is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA.
A Discourse Analysis of News Translation in China (Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation)
by Liang XiaA Discourse Analysis of News Translation in China offers hitherto underexplored inroads into Chinese media through insider perspectives on a unique Chinese newspaper, Cankao Xiaoxia which not only is the largest circulating newspaper in China but is also unique in that its news consists entirely of stories translated from foreign news sources. The size of the publication, the unique nature of the publication, and the view from the inside of such an organization gathered through interviews with its employees give this proposed book a highly unique perspective that will inform our understanding of the workings of Chinese media in important ways.
The Discourse of Commercialization
by Jonathan CrichtonAn examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives.
Discourses of Identity: Language Learning, Teaching, and Reclamation Perspectives in Japan
by Martin Mielick Ryuko Kubota Luke LawrenceThis edited book draws on research on identity in language education to present a detailed and multi-faceted study of identity in language learning, teaching and revitalization settings in the context of Japan. It employs a diverse range of theoretical approaches, including poststructuralism, critical realism, cognitive behavioral theory, and complexity theory,, as well as methodologies such as linguistic ethnography, narrative enquiry, and critical multimodal discourse analysis. The authors focus on multiple dimensions of identity, illuminating linguistic, cultural and human complexity as manifested in language teaching and learning. This book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of TESOL, applied linguistics, education, Japanese studies, East Asian studies, linguistic anthropology, indigenous languages and sociolinguistics.
Discovering and Developing Talents in Spanish-Speaking Students
by Joan F. Smutny Kathryn P. Haydon Olivia G. Bolanos Gina M. Danley¡Atención! Recognize the strengths of Spanish-speaking students! How do you nurture the gifts and talents of the growing population of Hispanic students? This book provides teachers and leaders with the skills needed to uncover each child’s abilities and ultimately boost achievement for gifted Spanish-speaking students. Packed with strategies that teachers can use immediately to enhance instruction and assessment, this book shows how to: Recognize students’ unique strengths Identify and develop the gifts of bilingualism and different cultures Create challenging learning experiences for every student in the class Adapt tools and strategies to meet each learner’s unique needs Connect with parents and the greater Spanish-speaking community
Discovering Fiction: An Introduction
by Judith Kay Rosemary GelshenenAdapted short stories enhance pre-intermediate students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, Intro Level, has the same unit and chapter structure as the two higher level books. There are four units, each containing three stories that are related in terms of their theme; extensive prereading and post-reading tasks accompany each story. Unlike the other two books, however, an audio CD containing a reading of each story is packaged into each Student's Book.
