books about: non-native     books:       Approaches to Teaching Non-Native English Speakers Across the Curriculum: New Directions for Teaching and ... David L. Sigsbee, Bruce W. Speck, ... Jossey-Bass, 1997 This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning makes the knowledge and skills of academic specialists available to subject-area faculty who deal with the writing and oral communication styles of non-native users of English in their classrooms. The chapters offer information and much-needed advice in nontechnical language about ways to help these students improve their writing and speaking skills in content-area courses. The volume also ...             The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions, and Models of Non-native Englishes (English in the Global ...1 review Braj B. Kachru University of Illinois Press, 1990 still excellent Kachru's book is an excellent analysis of non-native varieties of English and the opportunities as well as the dangers of global English. In contrast to Phillipson's more recent book (1992) Kachru is critical but not overly influenced by ideology. This book is another must for those interested in international English; however, as it is a bit dated (it was published in 1986!) a revised edition ...             The Non-Native Teacher (ELT) Peter Medgyes Hueber Macmillan Prentice Hall Phoenix ELT, 1998             Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars John McWhorter Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are "easier" than others, since it is assumed all languages are complex to the same degree. For example, they ...             Non-native Educators in English Language Teaching2 reviews Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999 This is THE book! For anyone interested in nonnoative speakers as teachers, this is the book! Dr. Braine has assembled a comprehensive and representative sample of writers, showing a diverse account of the challenges and successes of nonnative teachers from around the world. This is a "must read!"             Success with Graduate and Scholarly Writing: A Guide for Non-native Writers of English Sheryl Holt Aspen Productions, 2004 Success with Graduate and Scholarly Writing is a practical guide for graduate and research writers, emphasizing the areas needed for truly sophisticated writers of English. 1. Learn the principles of writing at a high level of English. 2. Write graduate level papers for an English-speaking reader. 3. Submit research papers for publications in English 4. Submit a resume and cover letter for a professional position or application 5. ...             Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Non-Native Speakers4 reviews Thomas N. Huckin, Leslie A. Olsen McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua, 1991 Best technical writing book ever. I've seen a lot of (technical) writing books and most of them are just crap. You don't need a 50-page chapter to teach you how to put citations in your paper. You don't need double spaced text as if you are an elementary school student. But this book is different. It help you focus on your your article/report/book at any level you desire from the overall organization to the proper selection ...             Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach: Student Book (Yale Language Series)7 reviews Lutfi Hussein Yale University Press, 1993 The drill approach...Effective! I bought all 3 items....1)The Teachers Manual 2)The Student book and 3) The 10 audiotapes This course is a classroom course for South Levantine Arabic(Jordanian/Palestinian) but accetable in Lebanon/Syria with modification in accent and intonation if you want to speak like a Lebanese/Syrian native.Self learners can easily adapt to the teacher-student structure of the material though.The course ...             Grammar for Teachers: A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers Andrea DeCapua Springer, 2008 The purpose of Grammar for Teachers is to encourage readers to develop a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English. It approaches grammar from a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach; however, throughout Grammar for Teachers differences between formal and informal language, and spoken and written English are discussed. Grammar for Teachers avoids jargon or excessive use of technical ...             Non-Native Sources for the Scandanavian Kings' Sagas (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) Paul A. White Routledge, 2005 Traditional scholarship on the kings' sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts. Thus previous scholars have striven to ascertain chronology, dating, and potential literary borrowings between the various native medieval manuscripts without considering the possibility of foreign textual influences on native literary traditions. ...             Personal Persistence, Identity Development, and Suicide: A Study of Native and Non-Native North American ... Wiley-Blackwell, 2003 This Monograph demonstrates that disruptions to young people's developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence begin to explain the suicide rates among Aboriginal Canadian and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth. Presents a developmental and cross-cultural investigation into suicide among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth. Links disruptions to developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence with suicide rates ...             The Last World: The Taoist and Native American Philosophies as a Way of Living in Harmony with Nature1 review PhD, Richard Spiegel Astrolog Publishing House, 2002 Overcoming our dualism The author of this book provides a fine introduction to some non-dualistic philosophies and ways of perceiving the world, and individual philosophies as well. He mostly looks at the similarities between concepts such as the Yin and Yang, rationality, intuition, Empathy, humility, time and space, Metaphysics, and much more. He sort of blends these into one phillosophy. It was like what this ...             Computer and the Non Native Writer: A Natural Partnership (Written Language) Martha Pennington Hampton Pr, 1996 This work overviews the literature and practice regarding word processing and the non-native writer, especially the student of English as a second language. It considers the nature and potentials of the medium, and provides discussion of linguistic, psychological and pedagogical considerations.             Non-Native Marine Species in British Waters: A Review and Directory Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), 1997 This work summarises current knowledge and existing policies and legislation, and suggests how threats to nature conservation can be minimised. The directory has an entry for each non-native plant or animal that has become established, describing the origin, date and method of introduction, reasons for success, rate of spread, current distribution, actual and potential effects on the environment, commercial interests, and methods of control.             Read To Write: An Interactive Course for Non-Native Speakers of English Jeri Wyn Gillie, Susan Ingle, ... McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT, 1996 An important goal of Read to Write is to make students aware that reading and writing are interconnected and that by developing their skills in one area, they will also develop their skills in the other. Read to Write offers a wide variety of academic and student-generated readings along with a generous list of writing suggestions in every chapter. In addition, each chapter of Read to Write focuses on one of the rhetorical modes and ends with a ...             Modern Tagalog: Grammatical Explanations and Exercises for Non-Native Speakers10 reviews Teresita V. Ramos University of Hawaii Press, 1990 Great help This is an excellent book for those of us who learn languages through a rules-based approach rather than the more common intuitive "use some common expressions and try to figure out why along the way" found in many books. On the other hand, if you always hated and never understood grammar and prefer to just dive in to everyday language, you'll probably prefer one of the other books. In ...             Recruitment of three non-native invasive plants into a fragmented forest in southern Illinois [An article ... E.D. Yates, D.F. Levia, ... Elsevier, 2004 This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Plant invasions are a current threat to biodiversity conservation, second only to habitat loss and fragmentation. Density and heights of three invasive plants, Rosa ...              search for books acquisition, adolescents, approaches, communication, curriculum, development, directions, educators, englishes, exercises, explanations, fragmented, functions, grammatical, interactive, interrupted, levantine, management, monographs, non-native, non-natives, partnership, persistence, philosophies, professional, proficiency, proficiency-oriented, recruitment, scandanavian, technical books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Ranma 1/2, Vol. 1 (Library Edition) (Ranma 1/2) leave a comment home  impressum - about us