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English Simplified
by Blanche Ellsworth John A. HigginsAt only 80 pages, English Simplified is a concise, inexpensive grammar handbook that has long been the choice of instructors due to its reliability.
English Skills (9th edition)
by John LanganThe ninth edition of English Skills features John Langan's trademark crystal-clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills.
English Skills with Readings (Fifth Edition)
by John LanganEnglish Skills with Readings will help students learn and apply the basic principles of effective composition. It will also help them master essential reading skills. It is a nuts-and-bolts book based on a number of assumptions or beliefs about the writing process.
English Sociolinguistics: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language)
by Daniel SchreierCovering both traditional topics and innovative approaches, this textbook constitutes a comprehensive introduction to English sociolinguistics. Reflecting the field's breadth and diversity, it guides students through the development of research on language and society over the last sixty years, as well as global trends and related fields such as World Englishes, language politics, language and inequality, and translanguaging. It features practical activities, for both individual work and in-class discussion, as well as vignettes introducing specific case studies, additional information on 'out of the box' topics, key terms, and examples from around the world and various social settings. Inspiring, personal and authoritative interviews with leading sociolinguists conclude the book. Assuming only a basic understanding of the English sound system and its grammar, and supported online by additional activities and selected model answers, this is the ideal text for undergraduates wanting an accessible and modern introduction to the field.
English Speech from an Historical Point of View (Routledge Revivals)
by N. BøgholmFirst published in 1939, English Speech from an Historical Point of View presents the history of the English language under three major components: Old English, Middle English and Modern English. Each of these divisions, with the partial exception of Modern English, treats English with regard to phonology, morphology and syntax.The author argues that it has not always been found practical to stick exclusively to the 3 periods in dealing with some phenomenon which may have had its full development within one particular period, while it had its origin or faded away in another. Particular regard has been had to Shakespearean English. Otherwise, a selection has been made of Middle English (and Old English) texts which are most representative. This is an important historical work for students of English language.
English Spelling (Language Workbooks)
by Edward CarneyEnglish Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based.This Language Workbook:* Examines how speech-sounds map onto each other* Explores the extent to which words sound identical or look identical* Analyzes various kinds of spelling mistakes* Looks at the main differences between American and British spelling* Shows how and why the names of people and places may vary from expected spelling conventions* Deals with the punctuation of words by apostrophes, hyphens and capitalisation* Considers several possible approaches to spelling reform
English Stage Comedy 1490-1990: Five Centuries Of A Genre
by Alexander LeggattFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
English Studies Beyond the 'Center': Teaching literature and the future of global English (Routledge Research in Higher Education)
by Myles ChiltonThis book addresses the shape of English studies beyond the ‘center’ by analyzing how the discipline has developed, and by considering how lessons from this analysis relate to the discipline as a whole. The book aims to open a cross-disciplinary conversation about the nature of the English major in both non-Anglophone and Anglophone countries by addressing the tensions between language and literature pedagogy, the relevance of a focus on hyper-canonical Anglophone literature in a world of global Englishes, world literature, and multilingual students, and by reflecting on the necessary contingency and cross-purposes of blended literature and language classrooms. Many of the book’s points of discussion arise from the author’s experience as an English professor in Japan, where the particularities of English language and literature pedagogy raise significant challenges to Anglo-centric critical and pedagogical assumptions. English Studies Beyond the ‘Center’: Teaching Literature and the Future of Global English therefore argues that English literature must make a case for itself by understanding its place in a newly configured discipline. Issues discussed in the book include: English language and literature pedagogy in Japan The modes through which EFL and English literary studies converge and diverge Globalized English beyond the Anglo-American perspective English classroom practices, particularly in Japan
English Studies in India: Contemporary And Evolving Paradigms
by Banibrata Mahanta Rajesh Babu SharmaThis volume is a collection of scholarly papers that explore the complex issues concerning English Studies in the present Indian context. The discussions in this volume range from historical perspectives to classroom-specific pedagogies, from sociological and political hierarchies to the dynamics of intellectual development in the English language environment. Interrogating both policy and practice pertaining to English Studies in the context of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance, the chapters seek to formulate contemporary perspectives to these debates and envision alternative possibilities. Since the introduction of English to India more than 2 centuries ago, the language has transmuted the very fabric of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance. The idea of India cannot be conceived in its entirety without taking into consideration the epistemological role that English has played in its formation. The present globalized world order has added dimensions to English Studies which are radically different from those of India’s colonial and postcolonial past. It is therefore imperative that the multitudinous shades and shadows of the discipline be re-examined with inputs drawn from the present context. This volume is for scholars and researchers of English literature and language studies, linguistics, and culture studies, and others interested in exploring new paradigms of engagement with the disciplinary formulation of English Studies in India.
English Studies in Transition: Papers from the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of English
by Robert Clark Piero BoitaniBringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies. Topics addressed include: * the nature of the canon * the poetics of language * the representation of women and the notion of nationalism in post-colonial literature. The significance of this volume lies not only in the quality of the individual contributions but also in the fact that it marks an important turning point in the history of English studies in Europe.
English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) (Refiguring English Studies)
by Bruce McComiskeyWell-known scholars in the field explore the important qualities and functions of English studies' constituent disciplines--Ellen Barton on linguistics and discourse analysis, Janice Lauer on rhetoric and composition, Katharine Haake on creative writing, Richard Taylor on literature and literary criticism, Amy Elias on critical theory and cultural studies, and Robert Yagelski on English education--and the productive differences and similarities among them that define English studies' continuing importance. <P><P> Faculty and students in both undergraduate and graduate courses will find the volume an invaluable overview of an increasingly fragmented field, as will department administrators who are responsible for evaluating the contributions of diverse faculty members but whose academic training may be specific to one discipline. <P><P> Each chapter of English Studies is an argument for the value--the right to equal status--of each individual discipline among all English studies disciplines, yet the book is also an argument for disciplinary integration.
English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future
by Niall Gildea Helena Goodwyn Megan Kitching Helen TysonAn accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies.
English Stylistics: A Cognitive Grammar Approach
by Zeki HamawandThis accessible textbook hinges on the central assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Grammar, introducing students to the analytical tools they need to approach Stylistics, an essential area in language analysis. The author verifies the claim that alterations in style, triggered by different cognitive processes, reflect alterations in meaning, and shows how they are employed to achieve particular effects in context. The book links theory with practice, aiming both to acquaint students with the cognitive principles that account for stylistic expressions, and to provide them with the tools and techniques to conduct their own analyses. The textbook explores and explains how writers use the resources of language to create meaning, and how readers interpret texts. It will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in English Linguistics, as well as those working on other languages and in related areas such as Composition and Creative Writing.
English Teachers’ Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom
by Dutta NandanaThis book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India’s colonial legacy, many decades after independence. The book is an account of the varied experiences of teaching English in universities in different parts of the country. It highlights the changes in curriculum and teaching practices and how the discipline lent itself to a study of culture, historical contexts, the fashioning of identities or reform over the years. The volume presents the dramatic changes in the composition of the English classroom in terms of gender, class, caste and indigenous communities in recent decades, as well as the shifts in teaching strategies and curriculum which the new diversity necessitated. The essays in the collection also examine the distinctiveness of English practice in India through classroom accounts which explore themes like post-coloniality, feminism and human rights through the study of texts by Shakespeare, Beckett, Doris Lessing and poetry from the Northeast. This book will be of interest to academics, researchers, students and practitioners of English Studies, education, colonial studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies, as well as those concerned with the history of higher education and the establishment of disciplines and institutions.
English Teaching and Evangelical Mission: The Case of Lighthouse School
by Bill JohnstonDebates about the place of mission work in English Language Teaching continue to rage, and yet full-length studies of what really happens at the intersection of ELT and evangelical Christianity are rare. In this book, Johnston conducts a detailed ethnography of an evangelical language school in Poland, looking at its Bible-based curriculum, and analyzing interaction in classes for adults. He also explores the idea of ‘relationship’ in the context of the school and its mission activity, and more broadly the cultural encounter between North American evangelicalism and Polish Catholicism. The book comprises an in-depth examination of a key issue facing TEFL in the 21st century, and will be of interest to all practitioners and scholars in the field, whatever their position on this topic.
English Term-1 class 4 - Tamil Nadu Board
by State Council of Educational Research and Training Tamil NaduIn this book we will be knowing about the different kinds of works robots can be involved. Various hobbies and the time for a journey. Various new words and their meaning. Grammar portions such as Singular, Plural. Common and Proper Noun, Dialogue writings, Reading passages, Application form for annual day participation etc.
English Term-1 class 6 - Tamil Nadu Board
by State Council of Educational Research and TrainingThe Class 6 English Term 1 textbook, prepared by the Government of Tamil Nadu, is designed to make English learning engaging and effective for students. It follows the National Curriculum Framework, 2005, focusing on themes from the natural and social world to stimulate curiosity and imagination. The book comprises three units featuring prose, poetry, and supplementary stories like “Sea Turtles,” “When the Trees Walked,” and “A Visitor from Distant Lands.” Each unit introduces vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and creative writing activities, with an emphasis on both individual and collaborative learning. Digital tools, such as ICT Corners and QR codes, promote digital literacy, while values-based learning is embedded through activities like “Connecting to Self” and “Steps to Success.” The content encourages higher-order thinking, promotes environmental and cultural awareness, and supports students in improving their language proficiency through active learning and storytelling.
English Term-2 class 4 - Tamil Nadu Board
by State Council of Educational Research and Training Tamil NaduThe textbook delves into the dual themes of affection and savings, encompassing essential grammar topics like Prefixes, Suffixes, Punctuation, Prepositions, and Tenses. It elucidates the concept of real wealth and what individuals typically save, advocating for wise financial decisions. Through dialogues between various characters such as a ticket collector and a passenger, and a banker and his customer, it explores practical scenarios related to saving and financial transactions. Additionally, the textbook includes guidance on effective communication through advertisement creation, paragraph and passage writing, as well as practical tools like a bank challan and withdrawal slip. Overall, it aims to equip readers with both linguistic proficiency and financial literacy, emphasizing the importance of prudent saving and meaningful relationships.
English Term-2 class 7 - Tamil Nadu Board
by Government of Tamil NaduThe seventh-grade English textbook for Term 2, published under the Free Textbook Programme of the Government of Tamil Nadu, is designed to make learning English both effective and enjoyable. Following the National Curriculum Framework 2005 guidelines, the book balances language structure and vocabulary with practical usage. It features graded activities to gradually build language proficiency, encourages individual and collaborative learning, and supports differentiation in multilevel classrooms. Each unit includes an ICT Corner to develop digital literacy. The textbook comprises two units and one play, with themes that engage students' curiosity and imagination. Activities range from creative writing and grammar games to projects that develop higher-order thinking skills. Learning outcomes emphasize reading, vocabulary, critical thinking, creative writing, and the practical application of grammar. The units cover prose, poetry, and supplementary readings, with each section designed to foster active learning and enjoyment of literature.
English Term-3 class 7 - Tamil Nadu Board
by Government of Tamil NaduThe Tamil Nadu State Board English textbook for 7th grade, Term 3, provides a rich blend of literature and interactive learning. It begins with a journey through Jules Verne’s "Around the World in Eighty Days," exploring early railway challenges, and includes John Masefield’s poem "Sea Fever," which expresses a longing for the sea. The supplementary story, "Sindbad the Sailor," recounts Sindbad’s first voyage. Unit 2 highlights the bravery of Neerja Bhanot, a flight attendant who sacrificed her life during a hijacking, paired with Edgar Albert Guest’s poem "Courage" and the rescue story "Man Overboard." The third unit features an excerpt from Charlotte Bronte’s "Jane Eyre," focusing on Jane's difficult childhood and experiences at Lowood School. The textbook integrates digital elements such as QR codes for interactive learning, grammar games, and includes sections on grammar, vocabulary, writing, and collaborative projects. It aims to make English learning engaging and effective by connecting students to self through values and encouraging curiosity and imagination.
English Tertiary Education in Vietnam (Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education)
by James AlbrightAs part of a long series of Vietnam’s policy objectives, English education has been identified as key to improving the quality of its rapidly expanding tertiary institutions and is crucial to the larger aim of modernising and internationalising its economy. Bringing together a wide range of Vietnamese and foreign English education scholars, and tertiary educational practitioners, this book documents the significant progress and challenges in the realisation of Vietnam’s English language policies as they are enacted in the higher education sector. Changes to Vietnam’s higher education system remain unstable, unsystematic, and insubstantial. This book provides insights into how recent Vietnamese government policy is providing for a substantial and comprehensive renewal of Vietnam’s tertiary education as part of their 2020 plan. Academics and students of English education, language policy, and nation building within the context of increased globalisation and marketisation in developing nations and Vietnam, in particular, should find this book valuable.
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 (Performing Celebrity)
by Fiona Ritchie Leslie Ritchie Michael Burden Danielle Bobker Chelsea Phillips Máire MacNeill Heather Ladd Nevena Martinovic Seth Wilson Elaine McGirr Amanda Weldy BoydThe essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.
English Tragedy before Shakespeare: The Development of Dramatic Speech (Routledge Revivals)
by Wolfgang ClemenFirst published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.
English Transcription Course
by Maria Lecumberri J. A. MaidmentHave you ever been confused by the fact that the words 'though' and 'bough' are pronounced differently, or frustrated by the realisation that 'hint' and 'pint' don't rhyme? It is well known that the spelling system of English is notoriously unhelpful as an indicator of how to pronounce English words. Spoken and written representations of English are mutually inconsistent, making it difficult to interpret the 'logic' of the language. Learning to transcribe English phonetically, however, provides an accurate visual interpretation of pronunciation: it helps you to realise what you actually say, rather than what you think you say.English Transcription Course is the ideal workbook for anyone wishing to practice their transcription skills. It provides a series of eight lessons, each dealing with a particular aspect of pronunciation, and introduces and explains the most important features of connected speech in modern British English - such as assimilation, elision and weak forms, concentrating on achieving a relaxed, informal style of speech. Each lesson is followed by a set of exercises which allow for extensive practise of the skills learnt in both current and previous chapters. Students can check their progress with the 'model' answers provided in the appendix.