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  • Authors: Datesman, Maryanne Kearny (2005)

  • This work focuses on the traditional values that have attracted people to the United States for well over 200 years and traces the effects of these values on American life.

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  • Authors: Richard J Gray (2004)

  • In this history of American literature, I have tried to be responsive to the immense changes that have taken place over the past thirty to forty years in the study of literature in general and American literature in particular: changes that, among other things, have put the whole issue of just what is American and exactly what constitutes literature into contention. Interdisciplinary studies, gender, ethnic and popular culture studies, critical and cultural theory have all complicated and problematized our notion of what literature is. And the debates initiated by these newly developed fields of study have, very often, gathered around and found their focus in American books. I have also tried to tell a story: about the continued inventing of communities, and the sustained imagining o...

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  • Authors: Simon Quinn (2005)

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  • Authors: Scarino , Angela (2009)

  • The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of those who participated in the project to produce this Guide and the supporting online materials. Development of Teaching and Learning Languages: A Guide was funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations under the Australian Government’s School Languages Program (SLP). It supports some of the actions recommended in the National Statement for Languages Education in Australian Schools and the National Plan for Languages Education in Australian Schools 2005–2008 developed through the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) relating to the strengthening and promoting of quality teaching and learning practices and supporting the provision of high quality, ongoing an...

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  • Authors: Alison Mackey (2005)

  • Throughout the book, examples from applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and TESOL are provided. Helpful discussion and data-based skill-building exercises at the end of each chapter promote better understanding of the principles discussed. A glossary outlines the key terms in second language research. Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is an ideal textbook for introductory and advanced classes in second language research methods, as well as classes in related areas, for example, TESOL research methods.

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  • Authors: Munday, Jeremy (2008)

  • This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory. Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages – English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and English translations are provided. A wide variety of text types is analyzed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical text and a European Parliament speech. Each chapter includes the following features

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  • Authors: C.R.Kothari (2006)

  • I feel encouraged by the widespread response from teachers and students alike to the first edition. I am presenting this second edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged, to my readers in all humbleness. All possible efforts have been made to enhance further the usefulness of the book. The feedback received from different sources has been incorporated. In this edition a new chapter on “The Computer: Its role in Research” have been added in view of the fact that electronic computers by now, for students of economics, management and other social sciences, constitute an indispensable part of research equipment. The other highlights of this revised edition are (i) the subject contents has been developed, refined and restructured at several points, (ii) several new problems have also been...