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Breaking Through the Language Barrier: Effective Strategies for Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to Secondary School Students in Mainstream Classes
by Patricia MertinTeaching students for whom English is not their first language is a huge challenge for any educator. It is frustrating and demoralising for teachers and their students if the language barrier prevents learning and progress in the classroom. But, with ever increasing numbers of English as a Second Language (ESL) students in secondary schools - there is now a majority in international schools - teachers need to know how to overcome common problems and teach ESL students effectively. This concise and informative book provides strategies and practical advice that teachers can use every day in the classroom to help ESL students understand and get to grips with their subject. It includes advice on using the textbook, cultural differences, realistic timescales for learning, and language and grammar that is easy to understand; plus chapters on teaching specific subjects. Patricia Mertin is Mother Tongue co-ordinator at the International School of Dusseldorf and has vast experience of teaching ESL students.
Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media
by Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha Jeffrey S. PeakeModern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences. With these strategies, presidents tend to influence the media's agenda. In fact, presidential leadership of the news media provides an important avenue for indirect presidential leadership of the public, the president's ultimate target audience. Although frequently left out of sophisticated treatments of the public presidency, the media are directly incorporated into this book's theoretical approach and analysis. The authors find that when the public expresses real concern about an issue, such as high unemployment, the president tends to be responsive. But when the president gives attention to an issue in which the public does not have a preexisting interest, he can expect, through the news media, to directly influence public opinion. Eshbaugh-Soha and Peake offer key insights on when presidents are likely to have their greatest leadership successes and demonstrate that presidents can indeed "break through the noise" of news coverage to lead the public agenda.
The Breakout Novelist: How to Craft Novels That Stand Out and Sell
by Donald MaassIntended as a reference for writers in need of help with a stall, breakdown or block, this spiral bound, hard cover guide presents practical advice for novelists in all aspects of their writing and career. Drawn from the authors previous works Writing the Breakout Novel, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook, The Fire in Fiction and The Career Novelist, this volume covers the basics of story development such as characters, plot and pace, processes for improving manuscripts such as writing characters that matter to readers and finding a unique voice, and advice on publishing and career management including information on pitching projects, hiring agents and contracts. Numerous writing exercises are included throughout. Maass is a literary agent in New York City. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Breakthroughs in Writing and Language (Breakthroughs Series)
by Joan Maruskin-Mott<P>"Contemporary's Breakthroughs in Writing and Language is designed to help students develop a firm basis in writing and language skills. Both the process of writing and conventions of English are covered. In particular, there are three features to note: <P>- The ""Journal Writing"" feature provides students with a variety of ideas for writing in their journals. Its main purpose is to help students start to feel comfortable as writers. In this section only, grammar and spelling are not emphasized. <P>- ""Putting Your Skills to Work,"" a highly structured writing activity, appears following language skills exercises. The writing focuses on the grammar point that was just taught. This feature helps students to understand grammar in the context of their own writing. <P>- Somewhat less structured than ""Putting Your Skills to Work,"" ""Your Turn to Write"" gives students a choice of topics and some suggestions about how to approach the topic. ""Your Turn to Write"" is followed by a checklist of a few of the major grammar and usage points in the chapter. The checklist guides students in editing their own writing."
The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media
by Ilana GershonA few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke up, the absence of a ring let everyone know you were available again. Is being Facebook official really more complicated, or are status updates just a new version of these old tokens? Many people are now fascinated by how new media has affected the intricacies of relationships and their dissolution. People often talk about Facebook and Twitter as platforms that have led to a seismic shift in transparency and (over)sharing. What are the new rules for breaking up? These rules are argued over and mocked in venues from the New York Times to lamebook. com, but well-thought-out and informed considerations of the topic are rare. Ilana Gershon was intrigued by the degree to which her students used new media to communicate important romantic information-such as "it's over. " She decided to get to the bottom of the matter by interviewing seventy-two people about how they use Skype, texting, voice mail, instant messaging, Facebook, and cream stationery to end relationships. She opens up the world of romance as it is conducted in a digital milieu, offering insights into the ways in which different media influence behavior, beliefs, and social mores. Above all, this full-fledged ethnography of Facebook and other new tools is about technology and communication, but it also tells the reader a great deal about what college students expect from each other when breaking up-and from their friends who are the spectators or witnesses to the ebb and flow of their relationships. The Breakup 2. 0 is accessible and riveting.
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature: Latching On (Routledge Research in Women's Literature)
by Wendy Whelan-StewartRather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By cataloging and closely reading scenes of characters breastfeeding across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book decodes the beliefs of writers as celebrated as Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich and as current as Camille Dungy, Maggie Nelson, and Torrey Peters. It traces in these authors’ fantasies and fears the consistent and sometimes competing cultural ideologies that accrue over decades and find expression in breastfeeding scenes. Despite the different historical and cultural expectations of what a mother should be and do, twentieth and twenty-first-century women writers have consistently singled out maternal pleasure—a mother’s privileging of her own desire—as the most important theme attending scenes of breastfeeding.
Breath, Eyes, Memory (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesBreath, Eyes, Memory (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Edwidge Danticat Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols a review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.
Breathing Aesthetics
by Jean-Thomas TremblayIn Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration. They identify responses to the crisis in breathing in aesthetic practices ranging from the film work of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta to the disability diaries of Bob Flanagan, to the Black queer speculative fiction of Renee Gladman. In readings of these and other minoritarian works of experimental film, endurance performance, ecopoetics, and cinema-vérité, Tremblay contends that articulations of survival now depend on the management and dispersal of respiratory hazards. In so doing, they reveal how an aesthetic attention to breathing generates historically, culturally, and environmentally situated tactics and strategies for living under precarity.
Breathing Life into Your Characters: How to Give You Characters Emotional and Psychological Depth
by Rachel BallonIt's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience? How can you describe the feelings of a drug addict if you've never been one? How can you write about being a prisoner if you've never been to jail? You can do all the research you want, but the question still remains: How do you convincingly portray characters if you've never lived in their skin? In Breathing Life Into Your Characters, writing consultant and professional psychotherapist Rachel Ballon, Ph.D., shows you how to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings necessary to truly understand your characters, no matter what their background or life experiences. She'll show you how to: Develop a psychological profile for every character; Turn archetypes into conflicted characters; Think like a criminal to convincingly write one; Reveal personalities through the use of nonverbal communication. In addition, you'll learn how to effectively use Ballon's "Method Writing" system, taught previously only in her writing workshops, to explore your own feelings, memories, and emotions to create characters of astonishing depth and complexity!
Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Survive, and Get Back to the Fight
by Kimberly Dozier&“A harrowing tale of courage, survival, determination, fellowship and the high price of covering a war . . . a master storyteller and one tough journalist.&” —Tom BrokawCBS Foreign Correspondent Kimberly Dozier shares her compelling story from being injured in Iraq to her recovery . . . shedding light on the ordeal faced by countless combat veterans and civilians. In a flash, Kimberly Dozier&’s life changed. As an award-winning CBS News reporter, Dozier had devoted her career to being in the right place at the right time to capture the story. Suddenly, in the wrong place at the worst time, she became the story, as a deadly explosion tore through her team and the troops they were following, and a word spread worldwide. That Memorial Day in 2006, a routine mission ended with Dozier in a pool of blood on a Baghdad street, a victim of a car bomb that killed her team, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, as well as U.S. Army Captain James Alex Funkhouser and his translator. Critically injured, Dozier woke to find herself fighting first for survival, then for recovery, and finally to return to the field. Breathing the Fire tracks one woman&’s relentless determination to get the story, to get it right, and to get well again after everything went wrong. The paperback was produced at the request of hospital caregivers, who find the book helps trauma patients and the families supporting them. The author&’s profits go to wounded warrior charities.&“A rare, personal view—with all the attention to detail a great reporter brings to bear—into an experience shared by thousands of wounded Iraq veterans.&” —Dan Rather
Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and The Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia
by Allen S. WeissExplores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Cros, Paul Valéry, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jules Verne, and Antonin Artaud, Allen S. Weiss shows how sound recording's uncanny confluence of human and machine would transform our expectations of mourning and melancholia, transfiguring our intimate relation to death. Interdisciplinary, the book bridges poetry and literature, theology and metaphysics. As Breathless shows, the symbolic and practical roles of poetry and technology were transformed as new forms of nostalgia and eroticism arose.
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures #1)
by Rachel PoliquinFrom sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (Animalibus)
by Rachel PoliquinFrom sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.
Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre
by PrateekBrecht in India analyses the dramaturgy and theatrical practices of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in post-independence India. The book explores how post-independence Indian drama is an instance of a cultural palimpsest, a site celebrating a dialogue between Western and Indian theatrical traditions, rather than a homogenous and isolated canon. Analysing the dissemination of a selection of Brecht’s plays in the Hindi belt between the 1960s and the 1990s, this study demonstrates that Brecht’s work provided aesthetic and ideological paradigms to modern Hindi playwrights, helping them develop and stage a national identity. The book also traces how the reception of Brecht was mediated in India, how it helped post-independence Indian playwrights formulate a political theatre, and how the dissemination of Brechtian aesthetics in India addressed the anxiety related to the stasis in Brechtian theatre in Europe. Tracking the dialogue between Brechtian aesthetics in India and Europe and a history of deliberate cultural resistance, Brecht in India is an invaluable resource for academics and students of theatre studies and theatre historiography, as well as scholars of post-colonial history and literature.
Brecht's Tradition
by Max SpalterOriginally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of whom affected his work. However, they tend not to address any single tradition as exclusively Brecht's. From these various literary traditions, Brecht borrowed formal elements only; compared with other writers to whom he is indebted, Brecht exceeds them in cynicism. They do not convey anything like his pitiless debunking attitude, his corrosive anti-romanticism, his hardheaded refusal to idealize or glorify, and his suspicion of all sentimentalities. This book discusses what the author identifies as the "Brechtian sensibility." Chroniclers of drama have not totally ignored the Brechtian tradition, but too often they are content to note merely that Brecht shared with some writers—particularly Büchner and Wedekind—a proclivity for open drama and episodes of racy realism tinged with poetic feeling. Other critics have not closely studied the various plays of this tradition in order to show how they constitute a distinctive and well-defined species of theater to which Brecht unmistakably belongs.
Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse
by S. S. Prawer"This study traces the successive stages of Thackeray's contact with the German world and analyses the discourse he developed as a result. The author is concerned with the fiction and criticism of Thackeray's :Paris Sketch Book"" and the impressions related by the cockney traveller in ""Irish Sketch Book"" and ""Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo"". Thackeray's own pictorial illustrations of his writings and those by Cruikshank, Doyle and Walker, which he supervised and supplemented, are recognized as an integral part of his German discourse. The study is a chronological one, setting Thackeray's construction of ""German"" and ""the Germans"" against the background of his own development and of the social, industrial, cultural and political history of Britain and its continental neighbours."
Brendan
by Frederick BuechnerAn acclaimed author interweaves history and legend to re-create the life of a complex man of faith fifteen hundred years ago. Winner of the 1987 Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles-Lettres.
Bret Easton Ellis
by Georgina ColbyThis book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from "Less Than Zero" to "Imperial Bedrooms. "Colby recasts Ellis as a social critic anda literary figure who enables us to think differently about the cultural climates of the 1980s, 1990s, and the first decade of the twenty-first century. "
Breve acercamiento a la lingüística
by Pascual Hernández del MoralEl lenguaje es lo que nos hace humanos. En este Breve acercamiento a la lingüística general se ha pretendido hacer un repaso a las diferentes teorías que se han sucedido a lo largo del tiempo, a través de la obra de los distintos lingüistas, a los que se les cita a través de sus obras, lo que, a veces hace al texto un tanto enojoso. <P><P>Tras hacer un repaso a las generalidades del lenguaje y de la lengua, como entidades distintas, y apuntar las principales características que definen ambos conceptos, se acerca a una definición de la lingüística como disciplina, que intenta unir la explicación del lenguaje y de la lengua, a través del término Lingüística General y de las ciencias afines que aportan conceptos esenciales a la disciplina lingüística. <P>Presenta una breve historia de la lingüística desde el siglo III a.C., hasta principios del siglo XXI, presentando, a través de los principales autores, los fundamentos de las superaciones teóricas de la teoría lingüística. Se acaba con un glosario de los términos más importantes, presentados a través de las distintas acepciones que los autores les han dado.
Breve diccionario clínico del alma
by Jesús Ramírez-BermúdezUn audaz ensayo sobre las profundas relaciones entre la literatura y la psiquiatría, a través de la narración de varios casos clínicos. Breve diccionario clínico del alma es una aproximación al complejo fenómeno de las enfermedades del cerebro y la mente. Mediante casos clínicos, notas históricas y reflexiones filosóficas, el diccionario aborda los enigmas de la neuropsiquiatría contemporánea, como la autoscopía, los delirios de parasitosis, las alucinaciones visuales de las personas ciegas, los síndromes de Cotard y Capgras. Más que una explicación definitiva, Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez plantea las interrogantes diarias del trabajo clínico, así como el intenso debate entre ciencias y humanidades en torno a problemas descritos desde la antigüedad, como la manía, la melancolía y la epilepsia, o frente a los conceptos que forman la psicopatología moderna: esquizofrenia, paranoia, delirios, obsesiones. Con los recursos de la narrativa, la reflexión filosófica y el rigor científico, el Breve diccionario clínico del alma explora la correspondencia oculta entre la creatividad artística y la enfermedad mental, entre la filosofía de la mente y la neurología de la conducta, entre la ciencia y el arte.
Breve Historia de la Literatura Argentina
by Martín PrietoEste libro ofrece al lector una historia informativa, descriptiva, explicativa, crítica y valorativa de la literatura argentina, desde las crónicas escritas sobre el territorio que más de tres siglos después ocupará la República Argentina hasta la producción literaria actual. La decisión de condensar todos estos contenidos en un volumen requiere necesariamente exclusiones y recortes. La obra, guiada por criterios claros y comprometidos, da cuenta de los principales textos, autores, movimientos, tendencias y géneros que dibujan el corpus literario argentino en forma sucinta pero rigurosa y funcional. Escrita por un solo autor -un especialista con perspectivas y juicios sólidos y definidos-, goza de una unidad y una coherencia que la hacen un útil instrumento para un público amplio, no restringido a los expertos, objetivo al que apunta también su lenguaje claro y despojado de tecnicismos. Dejando de lado otros criterios, esta Breve historia... elige poner el eje en el valor literario de los textos -ya resida éste en su dimensión estética, su novedad o su proyección-, constituyendo así un instrumento decisivo para conocer, valorar y disfrutar la literatura argentina.
Breve historia de la literatura argentina
by Martín PrietoLa obra, guiada por criterios claros y comprometidos, da cuenta de los principales textos, autores, movimientos, tendencias y géneros que dibujan el corpus literario argentino en forma sucinta pero rigurosa y funcional. Este libro ofrece al lector una historia informativa, descriptiva, explicativa, crítica y valorativa de la literatura argentina, desde las crónicas escritas sobre el territorio que más de tres siglos después ocupará la República Argentina hasta la producción literaria actual. La decisión de condensar todos estos contenidos en un volumen requiere necesariamente exclusiones y recortes. Escrita por un solo autor -un especialista con perspectivas y juicios sólidos y definidos-, goza de una unidad y una coherencia que la hacen un útil instrumento para un público amplio, no restringido a los expertos, objetivo al que apunta también su lenguaje claro y despojado de tecnicismos. Dejando de lado otros criterios, esta Breve historia elige poner el eje en el valor literario de los textos -ya resida éste en su dimensión estética, su novedad o su proyección-, constituyendo así un instrumento decisivo para conocer, valorar y disfrutar la literatura argentina.
Breviario para políticos
by Giulio MazarinoLos mejores libros jamás escritos. «Solo el azar determina las acciones de los hombres.» El cardenal Giulio Mazarino presenta en su Breviario para políticos una particular concepción sociopolítica de la época que le tocó vivir y eligió protagonizar. Desarrolla así, escueta y precisamente, un agudo análisis de la condición humana. A lo largo de sus páginas, se ofrecen al lector directrices y consejos de un pragmatismo atroz, lindante de la inmoralidad, cuyo único objetivo es la obtención de más y más poder. Inteligente, aguda y, por encima de todo, tremendamente sincera, la presente es una obra imprescindible para historiadores, para literatos y, por supuesto, para políticos. En la palpitante versión de María Pons Irazazábal, este lacerante epítome se revela no solo como el retrato de uno de los hombres más poderosos de su tiempo, sino, en palabras del maestro Umberto Eco, firmante de la introducción que abre el volumen, como «un retrato robot de uso diario, para vuestra actividad cotidiana».
Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
by David GalefIn Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its varied origins, from the short-short to nanofiction, with examples that include vignettes, prose poems, character sketches, fables, lists, twist stories, surrealism, and metafiction. The authors range from the famous, such as Colette and Borges, to today's voices, like Roxane Gay and Bruce Holland Rogers. A writer and longtime creative writing teacher, Galef also shows how flash fiction skills translate to other types of writing. Brevity is an indispensable resource for anyone working in this increasingly popular form. For more information, see davidgalef.com/brevity.
Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses
by Robert EaglestoneBrexit is a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too. In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse range of literary scholars, writers and poets to respond to this aspect of Brexit. The discipline of ‘English’, as the very name suggests, is concerned with cultural and national identity: literary studies has always addressed ideas of nationalism and the wider political process. With the ramifications of Brexit expected to last for decades to come, Brexit and Literature offers the first academic study of its impact on and through the humanities. Including a preface from Baroness Young of Hornsey, Brexit and Literature is a bold and unapologetic volume, focusing on the immediate effects of the divisive referendum while meditating on its long-term impact.