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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture (Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture)
by Eamonn RodgersSome 750 alphabetically-arranged entries provide insights into recent cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes following the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975.Entries range from shorter, factual articles to longer overview essays offering in-depth treatment of major issues. Culture is defined in its broadest sense. Entries include:*Antonio Gaudí * science * Antonio Banderas * golf * dance * education * politics * racism * urbanization This Encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone interested in Spanish culture. It provides essential cultural context for students of Spanish, European History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.
Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages: Null
by Christopher MoseleyThe concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization. This book appears as an answer to a felt need: to catalogue and describe those languages, making up the vast majority of the world's six thousand or more distinct tongues, which are in danger of disappearing within the next few decades. Endangerment is a complex issue, and the reasons why so many of the world's smaller, less empowered languages are not being passed on to future generations today are discussed in the book's introduction. The introduction is followed by regional sections, each authored by a notable specialist, combining to provide a comprehensive listing of every language which, by the criteria of endangerment set out in the introduction, is likely to disappear within the next few decades. These languages make up ninety per cent of the world's remaining language stocks. Each regional section comprises an introduction that deals with problems of language preservation peculiar to the area, surveys of known extinct languages, and problems of classification. The introduction is followed by a list of all known languages within the region, endangered or not, arranged by genetic affiliation, with endangered and extinct languages marked. This listing is followed by entries in alphabetical order covering each language listed as endangered. Useful maps are provided to pinpoint the more complex clusters of smaller languages in every region of the world. The Encyclopedia therefore provides in a single resource: expert analysis of the current language policy situation in every multilingual country and on every continent, detailed descriptions of little-known languages from all over the world, and clear alphabetical entries, region by region, of all the world's languages currently thought to be in danger of extinction. The Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages will be a necessary addition to all academic linguistics collections and will be a useful resource for a range of readers with an interest in development studies, cultural heritage and international affairs.
Endangered Languages in the 21st Century
by Christopher Moseley Eda DerhemiEndangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to characterize efforts to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous languages around the world. With contributions from scholars across the field, the book brings fresh data and insights to this imperative, but still relatively young, field of linguistics. While the studies acknowledge the threat of losing languages in an unprecedented way, they focus on cases that show resilience and explore paths to sustainable progress. The articles are also intended as a celebration of the 25 years’ work of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, and as a parting gift to FEL’s founder and quarter-century chair, Nick Ostler. This book will be informative for researchers, instructors, and specialists in the field of endangered languages. The book can also be useful for university graduate or undergraduate students, and language activists. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Engaging Classical Texts in the Contemporary World: From Narratology to Reception
by Louise H. Pratt C. M SampsonContemporary classicists often find themselves advocating for the value and relevance of Greco-Roman literature and culture, whether in the classroom, or social media, or newsprint and magazines. In this collection, twelve top scholars apply major critical approaches from other academic fields to open new channels for dialogue between ancient texts and the contemporary world. This volume considers perennial favorites of classical literature—the Iliad and Odyssey, Greek tragedy, Roman comedy, the Argonautica, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses—and their influence on popular entertainment from Shakespeare’s plays to Hollywood’s toga films. It also engages with unusual and intriguing texts across the centuries, including a curious group of epigrams by Artemidorus found on the island sanctuary of Thera, mysterious fragments of two Aeschylean tragedies, and modern-day North African novels. These essays engage an array of theoretical approaches from other fields—narratology, cognitive literary theory, feminist theory, New Historicist approaches to gender and sexuality, and politeness theory—without forsaking more traditional philological methods. A new look at hospitality in the Argonautica shows its roots in the changed historical circumstances of the Hellenistic world. The doubleness of Helen and her phantom in Euripides’ Helen is even more complex than previously noted. Particularly illuminating is the recurrent application of reception studies, yielding new takes on the ancient reception of Homer by Apollonius and of Aeschylus by Macrobius, the reception of Plautus by Shakespeare, and more contemporary examples from the worlds of cinema and literature. Students and scholars of classics will find much in these new interpretations and approaches to familiar texts that will expand their intellectual horizons. Specialists in other fields, particularly English, comparative literature, film studies, and gender and sexuality studies, will also find these essays directly relevant to their work.
Engaging English Learners Through Access to Standards: A Team-Based Approach to Schoolwide Student Achievement
by Stephaney Jones-Vo Michele B. FairbairnUse this six-part strategy for measurable, cross-curricular EL achievement! How can districts and schools successfully promote academic English language development through teaching content knowledge and standards-based skills and abilities? This thoroughly researched book provides concrete answers. You’ll find practical steps and ideas for developing collaborative, cross-curricular programs that address EL-specific needs. Clear tables and templates, essays, expert research, and real-life teacher and parent stories illuminate best practices for appropriate standards-based instruction that gets results. Using the authors’ six-part ENGAGE Model, you’ll learn to: Establish a shared vision for serving ELs Name the expertise to utilize within collaborative teams Gather and analyze EL-specific data Align standards-based assessments and grading to ELs’ linguistic and content development Ground standards-based instruction in both content and language development Examine results to inform next steps Use this groundbreaking guide to accelerate progress and ensure effective instruction for all ELs! "Learning requires attention, engagement, and quality instruction. This book provides all three necessary components in one place; a model that teachers can use to ensure that their English learners achieve." -Douglas Fisher San Diego State University "This book should be a mandatory must read for all educators as we continue to serve our diverse student populations and strive to ensure we are honestly reaching academic achievement for each and every student!" -Michele R. Dean Coordinator,Ventura Unified School District
Engaging English Learners Through Access to Standards: A Team-Based Approach to Schoolwide Student Achievement
by Stephaney Jones-Vo Michele B. FairbairnUse this six-part strategy for measurable, cross-curricular EL achievement! How can districts and schools successfully promote academic English language development through teaching content knowledge and standards-based skills and abilities? This thoroughly researched book provides concrete answers. You’ll find practical steps and ideas for developing collaborative, cross-curricular programs that address EL-specific needs. Clear tables and templates, essays, expert research, and real-life teacher and parent stories illuminate best practices for appropriate standards-based instruction that gets results. Using the authors’ six-part ENGAGE Model, you’ll learn to: Establish a shared vision for serving ELs Name the expertise to utilize within collaborative teams Gather and analyze EL-specific data Align standards-based assessments and grading to ELs’ linguistic and content development Ground standards-based instruction in both content and language development Examine results to inform next steps Use this groundbreaking guide to accelerate progress and ensure effective instruction for all ELs! "Learning requires attention, engagement, and quality instruction. This book provides all three necessary components in one place; a model that teachers can use to ensure that their English learners achieve." -Douglas Fisher San Diego State University "This book should be a mandatory must read for all educators as we continue to serve our diverse student populations and strive to ensure we are honestly reaching academic achievement for each and every student!" -Michele R. Dean Coordinator,Ventura Unified School District
Engaging Modern Brunei: Research on language, literature, and culture
by David Deterding Hannah Ming Yit HoThis book explores issues shaping and defining modern Bruneian identity. It addresses the research gap regarding Brunei studies in terms of the language, literature, and culture of Brunei which, with its bilingual education, is uniquely positioned at the intersection of the Malay and western worlds. The book analyses the linguistic, literary, and cultural modes that provide the backdrop for modern-day instantiations of local identity, as expressed through printed and online materials, film, art, and social practices. It compares Brunei English and Brunei Malay in the context of the literature and culture of Brunei.Readers will find it useful as an essential resource for academic scholars, university students, and others interested in the study of Brunei Darussalam's language, literature, and culture. It provides critical insights from an insiders' perspective into the local identity of the culturally diverse Bruneian society.
Engaging Students in Academic Literacies: Genre-Based Pedagogy for K-5 Classrooms
by María Estela BriskThe Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Engaging Students in Academic Literacies provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics—a theory of language IN USE in particular ways for particular audiences and social purposes—it guides teachers in developing students’ ability to construct texts using structural and linguistic features of the written language. This approach to teaching writing and academic language is effective in addressing the persistent achievement gap between ELLs and "mainstream" students, especially in the context of current reforms in the U.S. Transforming systemic functional linguistics and genre theory into concrete classroom tools for designing, implementing, and reflecting on instruction and providing essential scaffolding for teachers to build their own knowledge of its essential elements applied to teaching, the text includes strategies for apprenticing students to writing in all genres, features of elementary students’ writing, and examples of practice.
Engaging Students in Academic Literacies: SFL Genre Pedagogy for K-8 Classrooms
by María Estela BriskThe second edition of this important and practical text provides specific information to guide teachers in planning and carrying out genre writing instruction in English for K–8 students within the content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL)—a framework conducive to instruction that views language as a meaning-making resource—this book guides teachers by presenting concrete ways to teach writing in the language arts, science, and social science curricula. Introducing theory of language that is effective in addressing the writing development of all students, especially multilingual/multicultural groups, the book provides essential scaffolding for teachers to design and implement effective, inclusive curricula while building their own knowledge. Fully up to date, the second edition features new genres appropriate for middle school, examples of student writing, an expanded focus on genre pedagogy, a new chapter on bilingual learners, guidance for teaching in the middle grades, as well as clear steps to prepare genre units based two decades of experience working with whole schools. The chapter units cover distinct genres, including memoirs, historical, genres, fictional narratives, arguments, and more. With ready-to-use tools, the new edition prepares elementary and middle school teachers to meet and adapt to the variable demands of their own educational contexts. Easy to navigate, this teacher-friendly text is an essential resource for courses in academic writing, English education, and multilingual education, and for pre-service and practicing English Language Arts (ELA) teachers who want to expand their teaching abilities and knowledge bases.
Englisch für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Denise Hodgson-Möckel Lars M. BlöhdornVon »Hello« bis »Good-bye« Mit diesem Buch lernen Sie Englisch. Neben der Betonung und der Grammatik lernen Sie Redewendungen und Begriffe, mit denen Sie Alltagssituationen meistern: sich auf Englisch vorstellen, über Ihre Hobbys sprechen, nach dem Weg fragen oder telefonieren. Nebenbei erfahren Sie viel über die britische und die amerikanische Kultur und bekommen Tipps für das Leben in Großbritannien und den USA. Mit Audiodateien zum Anhören und Nachsprechen, einem Mini-Wörterbuch und vielen Übungen als Download können Sie die richtige Aussprache üben und Ihre Sprachkenntnisse festigen. Sie erfahren Wie Sie englische Wörter richtig betonen und Ihr »th« bändigen Wie Sie englische Redewendungen richtig benutzen Was Sie in den USA oder Großbritannien nicht sagen sollten
Englisch für Wiedereinsteiger für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Lars M. BlöhdornMit diesem Buch gelingt Ihnen der Wiedereinstieg ins Englische. Nach einer kurzen Wiederholung der Grammatikregeln bereitet das Buch Sie bestens auf Gesprächssituationen aller Art vor: Gehen Sie mit Englisch auf Reisen, kommunizieren Sie souverän im Berufsalltag und telefonieren Sie stressfrei auf Englisch. Anschließend lernen Sie, wie Sie englische Texte treffend formulieren. So fällt es Ihnen leicht, private und berufliche Korrespondenz zu führen und mit internationalen Bewerbungen zu punkten. Zudem erfahren Sie, wie Sie Zeitungsartikel entschlüsseln, Werbesprüche richtig einordnen und die gesprochene Sprache besser verstehen. Im Anhang finden Sie die wichtigsten unregelmäßigen Verben, Zahlen und Maßeinheiten und ein kleines Wörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch, Englisch-Deutsch.
Englisch lernen in 15 Minuten am Tag für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Hildegard RudolphSie wollen Englisch lernen, aber der Gedanke, stundenlang Vokabeln und Grammatik zu pauken, schreckt Sie ab? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie! In kurzen, auf 15 Minuten pro Tag begrenzten Lektionen bringt es Ihnen auf einfache und unterhaltsame Weise die englische Sprache näher. So erfahren Sie im Handumdrehen alles Wichtige über Grammatik und Aussprache und erweitern ohne es zu merken Ihren Wortschatz. Sie lernen häufig verwendete Redewendungen kennen und auch auf die Unterschiede zwischen britischem und amerikanischem Englisch wird eingegangen. Mit regelmäßigen Wiederholungsfragen können Sie Ihr Wissen testen. Zum Download verfügbares Audiomaterial rundet die Lektionen ab. So werden Sie, wenn Sie nach drei Monaten das Buch durchgearbeitet haben, in der Lage sein, sich in alltäglichen Situationen und zu verschiedensten Themen auf Englisch zu verständigen.
Englische Grammatik für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Denise Hodgson-Möckel Lars M. BlöhdornSie wollen - oder müssen - Englisch sprechen und wollen auch verstanden werden? Sie möchten E-Mails auf Englisch verfassen oder bereiten sich gar auf den TOEFL vor? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie: Lars Blöhdorn, Dozent der Sprachwissenschaften, und Denise Hodgson-Möckel, Dozentin und Muttersprachlerin, erklären Ihnen locker, witzig und leicht verständlich auch die kompliziertesten Regeln der englischen Sprache.
Englische Verben für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Dr. Lars M. BlöhdornDie englischen Verben haben es in sich. Wann wird ein -s angehängt und wann ein -ed? Wie war das noch mal mit if und would? Und welche Unterschiede bei den Verben gibt es zwischen britischem und amerikanischem Englisch? Lars Blöhdorn macht es Ihnen leicht, dort einzusteigen, wo es für Sie die größten Stolpersteine gibt. Leicht verständlich und mit der üblichen Prise Humor erläutert er die Bildung von Zeiten, Konditionalsätzen, Passivformen und indirekter Rede. Und schon verlieren diese grammatischen Ungetüme ihren Schrecken. Sie erfahren, wie Sie zusammengesetzte Verben richtig verwenden, welche idiomatischen Ausdrücke Sie kennen sollten, wie neue Verben gebildet werden und was in der Alltagssprache wichtig ist. Dank der Übungen am Ende eines jeden Kapitels können Sie Ihre Lernfortschritte schnell überprüfen.
English / Spanish Basics for Orientation and Mobility Instructors
by Christian J. FoyThis book was written as a teaching aid for orientation and mobility (O&M) instructors. Author's intention is not to teach the techniques of the profession but to supply the vocabulary instructors might use to teach students in Spanish.
English As She Is Spoke
by Jose de Fonseca & CarolinoIn 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: they didn't know any English. Even worse, they didn't own an English-to-Portuguese dictionary. What they did have, though, was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The linguistic train wreck that ensued is a classic of unintentional humor, now revived in the first newly selected edition in a century. Armed with Fonseca and Carolino's guide, a Portuguese traveler can insult a barber ("What news tell me? All hairs dresser are newsmonger"), complain about the orchestra ("It is a noise which to cleve the head"), go hunting ("let aim it! let make fire him"), and consult a handy selection of truly mystifying "Idiotisms and Proverbs."
English B for the IB Diploma
by Hyun Jung Owen Mark McGowan Aaron DeupreeExam board: International BaccalaureateLevel: IB DiplomaSubject: EnglishFirst teaching: September 2019First exams: Summer 2021Develop competent communicators who can demonstrate a sound conceptual understanding of the language with a flexible course that ensures thorough coverage of the updated English B Guide and is designed to meet the needs of all IB students at Standard and Higher Level.- Empower students to communicate confidently by exploring the five prescribed themes through authentic texts and skills practice at the right level, delivered in clear learning pathways. - Ensure students are able to produce coherent written texts and deliver proficient presentations with grammar and vocabulary introduced in context and in relation to appropriate spoken and written registers. - Improve receptive skills with authentic written texts, audio recordings spoken at a natural pace, and carefully crafted reading and listening tasks.- Promote global citizenship, intercultural understanding and an appreciation of English cultures through a wide range of text types and cultural material from around the world. - Deliver effective practice with a range of structured tasks within each unit that build reading, listening, speaking and writing skills.- Establish meaningful links to TOK and CAS, and identify learner profile attributes in action.The audio for the Student Book is FREE to download from www.hoddereducation.com/ibextras
English B for the IB Diploma
by Hyun Jung Owen Mark McGowan Aaron DeupreeExam board: International BaccalaureateLevel: IB DiplomaSubject: EnglishFirst teaching: September 2019First exams: Summer 2021Develop competent communicators who can demonstrate a sound conceptual understanding of the language with a flexible course that ensures thorough coverage of the updated English B Guide and is designed to meet the needs of all IB students at Standard and Higher Level.- Empower students to communicate confidently by exploring the five prescribed themes through authentic texts and skills practice at the right level, delivered in clear learning pathways. - Ensure students are able to produce coherent written texts and deliver proficient presentations with grammar and vocabulary introduced in context and in relation to appropriate spoken and written registers. - Improve receptive skills with authentic written texts, audio recordings spoken at a natural pace, and carefully crafted reading and listening tasks.- Promote global citizenship, intercultural understanding and an appreciation of English cultures through a wide range of text types and cultural material from around the world. - Deliver effective practice with a range of structured tasks within each unit that build reading, listening, speaking and writing skills.- Establish meaningful links to TOK and CAS, and identify learner profile attributes in action.The audio for the Student Book is FREE to download from www.hoddereducation.com/ibextras
English Education at the Tertiary Level in Asia: From Policy to Practice (Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education)
by Bernard Spolsky Eun Sung ParkThis is the third volume of a trilogy on English Language education in Asia within the Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education. Put together by editors and contributors selected by Asia TEFL, this book provides a timely and critical review of the current trends in tertiary level English education in Asia. It foregrounds the developments and trends, policies and implementation, as well as research and practice. Written by ELT scholars and educational leaders, this book presents articles on China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. While the authors focus on their own local issues, providing an overview of the state of tertiary English teaching in their respective territories, they also provide insights from their successes and failures which can help inspire solutions to similar challenges faced internationally in the field. Chapters in the book include: • Heading toward the global standardization of English education in Korean universities • English in tertiary education in India: A Janus-faced perspective with special reference to University of Delhi • Developing English language skills in the Singapore higher education context • ELT at tertiary institutions in China: A developmental perspective This book will be valued by administrators, researchers and scholars interested in bilingualism, language policy and planning in higher education.